ROFL. Apple puts out a new underpowered, overpriced phone.

If I wanted to pay $600 for a 2012 phone, I would have bought that in 2012.

You can buy better brands, and not have to be bleeding edge (because why exactly? It's not a PC where there is legitimate uses for business/work, and fun with all that power). When you buy Apple, you are buying a NAME, not performance. Now those NAME people, are buying consistency. The same programs, the same setup, etc.

Gaming on a phone is not the future, it's a time passer. Every video game player would rather game on a bigger screen, with better controls, and surely don't mind all the fidelity upgrades.

This whole phones and handhelds will end PC's and consoles is just nonsense.

Yeah you can buy almost TWO GTX 970's for the price of an Iphone 6. Think about that.

Its not the graphics that matter. It's the freedom. The limited control scheme on phones severely hampers the types of games that can be made. That's why clones are so pervasive. Someone comes up with a good simple idea that works perfectly for phones (Clash of Clans, Piano Tiles, Flappy Bird,ect) then everyone else rides their coat tails.

*deep breath in*

Nope

I've seen the spec on Iphone 6 and Apple are now milking the shit out it sheep consumers. Their are far better phones then this.

not even xbox 360 level, they are insulting your intelligence

iPhone 6 is the strongest phone by far right now, but not as strong as consoles.

The graphics are MABE as good as OUYA and Fire TV, if you consider those consoles.

console-quality graphics!
I love the marketing on this one.
Been looking, waiting and still no go!
These companies want to make as much money as they can with as little money as possible. The best you will end up getting is a port or emulation. Consoles are that big and run that hot for a reason.
sheep consumers indeed!

For $700 meh no thanks.

ye ps1 graphics

F***k NOOOOO!

Could it run uncharted 4, quantum break, metal gear solid 5, final fantasy 15, the witcher 3 just about any future console game....? No.

Could it run ps3 beyond two souls or GTA v? Maybe, likely no still

Hell, it can't even give console quality gameplay.
I would never choose cellphone games over an actual console meant for gaming.

dont see gta5 or god of war 3 or halo4 level games running on them so no

Just means better graphics for free to play candy crush type tat.....

What this and many, Gamers i think are Not paying very much attention is Now Mobile Chipsets which used to be running Java M2E as the main OS was going to be running Advanced games like snake..or 2D side scroller's with very in the stark contrast what new Mobile chipsets are able to run today/s! that was a joke!

What it really is pointing out is the mobile chipsets in to day and date consumer electronic mobile phones are no longer those small high powered required low GPU to not even Having a GPU at all chipset, to having a chipset that can run a full desktop environment OS in its full desktop ver. without having to strip out parts of the OS!

and this is on a Mobile Phone chipset! something which is designed as a primary communications device! now ships with advanced GPU's

Example:

take this section of his view:

" For a few years now, marketing types and execs have been trumpeting the fact that smartphones have “console-quality graphics” — but this is false in every way except for resolution. Without getting into the complexities of 3D graphics, suffice it to say that it’s easy to render a world at 1920×1080. The hard bit is covering that world in high-quality textures, drawing lots of high-polygon models, and having the raw grunt to calculate how the lighting/physics/etc interact with everything — and in all of these cases, the iPhone 6 and every other mobile device sucks in comparison to the Xbox One or PS4."

now what he stated in a Performance vs Performance face to face is 100% correct...but...and this is the big one

That is not what coined term "Console Quality" gaming is really about its a statement to industry developments not really about industry to consumer's.

what its really about is right now, Todays Mobile Chips are able to Handle "full 3D GAME ENGINES THAT LIVING ROOM GAME CONSOLES USE" on Mobile Chips! for what is mainly a d@mn communication device as its main purpose but inside this communications device has an advanced enough GPU to run Game's Like GTA: SA which was at one time only on PC, Living Room Game console's! Now your everyday Smartphone!

Notice that "every day smartphone" is now running advanced 3D Games that 8 to 9 years ago only very high cost Smartphones could run.

Now even cheap pay as you go phones are running Adreno 225 GPU not just single core GPU's at that.

so yes the iPhone 6 can indeed run console Quality Games, just like the samsung GS5.

example:

http://www.arm.com/files/pd...

Now you may say well that is just PR talk, what about real performance? you do know Nintendo, Sony ,Apple,Google, Microsoft,Samsung, LG...etc they all use Arm Holding's Designs! if you are talking about real world performance over 95% of all Smart devices are using Arm Holdings designs!

if you want to be correct is mobile smartphones able to have "console quality game software ran on its hardware" ?
the Answer is Yes.

Does that mean it will outperform the xboxone or PS4 right now with the Chipsets currently on the market? No will the much newer chipsets in th near future be able to? no
will mobile chipsets in the next 5 to 7 years be able to do so ..Most likely yes! will they be expensive ? you bet..lol

here is the snapdragon 805

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

probably yes but no big console quality game. I don't think UbiSoft or so will make games as big as 25GB for the iphone 6.

Could have the best graphics in the world, but im yet to play a smartphone game that i like.

Too bad no matter how good graphics get on an iphone, games will still be impossible to play without basic tap controls.

Can you carry a console around in your pocket? Why is this even being compared?

the main problem i have with iphones in general is the memory and battery, meaning you can't upgrade them. well you can upgrade the memory but that would mean shelling out another $200 for another phone. my phone, i can just run down to the store and buy a 64g microsd card for less than $30 and call it a day...
my phone is fairly old compared to what's out there currently (or what's coming) but it does everything i need it to do and a lot of things the iphone can't. if i want to play games i can use a nintendo wii pad via blu-tooth if i choose to... it can also run android apps aside from it's own. that being my blackberry z10.... incidently, the blackberry Passport will be out by the end of the year which so far appears to be much better than the current iphone 6, not to mention it can record in 4k.

nope, next question

Too bad iPhone 6 is inferior to Android Smartphones released 3 years ago.

Let's compare Infinity Blade with Detiny... are you serious?