Huawei’s Mate20 X wants to take on the Nintendo Switch

[Steel]

https://www.finder.com.au/huaweis-mate20-x-wants-to-take-on-the-nintendo-switch

Nintendo finally dies, to a Chinese cell phone three times its price no less.

[Mr Skeltal]

Yeh can't wait to play angry birds while the Chinese govt spies on me

[Corn]

oh no a phone with half of a gamepad attached to it

nintendo execs on suicide watch

[SIRIUS]

Lol good luck

[CMX]

"At the launch, pricing was listed at 899 euro"
Really competing there.

[AkujiTheSniper]

Or you can buy a Xbox One X and a Switch for that price and still have money for GamePass, Switch Online, a few games, etc. for the same price. Plus you get actual controllers.

I don't think I could ever use my phone as a dedicated mobile gaming device, I don't want to use touch buttons or bring shit to slam onto it for controls.

[chipsnapper]

important note:
Alex Kidman travelled to London as a guest of Huawei
This is no better than a paid ad.

[ketamine]

fuckin uhh sellotape a dumbphone to a switch

[FlandersNed]

A lot of mobile journalists got the same treatment. This isn't anything new.

[Loth]

"Here's our product that's 2,5 times more expensive than existing competition, with a worst game catlogue, but it plays games at higher resolution!!" is p interesting marketing

[Curls]

I tried getting a good amount of mobile games but the mobile market is fucking garbage and 99.99% of the games I DID get I got through sales on a PC oriented site

[Reds]

This reminds me of the people who go "wow why would you buy a switch like a sucker when you could buy a gpd win 2" when that thing is three times the price of a Switch, except this thing is almost four times the price.

[knimren]

It's not marketed as a gaming console. It's just a side aspect of it. It's a phablet. It costs 899 dollars. It's nowhere a competition for the current market.

[Big D Duchovny]

It’s kinda funny, I only got an iPhone very recently (was on WP up until half a year ago), and one of the first things I did was download the most popular sudoku app. Literally included an unskippable 30 second ad in-between games (that take like five minutes) as well as banner ads at the bottom of the screen. It’s fucking sudoku, and mobile gaming managed to fuck it up.

[VinLAURiA]

Ah, the PlayStation strategy~

[Mako]

so the problem with mobile gaming isn't the library or the quality of games, it's the resolution and battery time?

[Mitsuma]

Huawei's pitching its biggest Mate phone

Thats not a phone, thats a tablet at that point.

[Rahu X]

7 inches is straight up tablet territory. Small tablets have 7 inch screens.

If I couldn't fit my Nexus 7 well in my pocket, then I don't see how this could fit well in it.

Not to mention that unless custom ROM support takes off very fast after release (which I hear is terrible on Huawei devices due to the custom SoCs), you'd have to deal with Huawei's terrible Android skin. Seriously, why can't Chinese OEMs just make something that is at least close to vanilla Android? Even Touchwiz is better than what Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo put out.

[maxspeed3006]

I know you are a Nintendo fanboy but the PS4 has the best catalogue of exclusives compared to the other consoles imo.

[Loth]

Dont see your point, PS4 pro is 400 euros, xbox one X is 500, and the justification for the price difference is being able to play at "true 4k!" At 30fps in a few games. And switch is a completely different value proposition and gaming experience, not really comparable.

[Paul-Simon]

10 years late for the "no gaems" meme

[Noob©]

Can't wait to play ditch my Switch and play top quality games on the go on my Huawei Mate 20 X.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/488/3b42d078-499c-4183-94a4-4f642b719b9f/svhm20x.png

Oh, well, guess I'll just play my 12th LoL clone.

[Tones3D]

It might not be a nintendo switch, but at least it has virtual console.

[proboardslol]

They've been trying to convert android based systems into gaming's one big platform for a while but the difference between Nintendo and any of these android competitors is that Nintendo has pretty strict quality control over the software that goes on their platform and the Google play Appstore is full of garbage

[Baconheart]

How is a phablet that can also play games even a competitor to a dedicated gaming system? They're occupying completely different markets, it's absurd. Might as well say a hot hatch is a competitor to a sportsbike because they're both capable of going fast, or an expensive smart TV is a competitor to a gaming monitor because they both display images.

[revengeanomics]

*7.2 inches

[FUCKING GIANT PHONES STOP AAAAA]

but seriously, stop making phones so fucking big

[MightyLOLZOR]

I can't wait to play spongebob surgery games at 1080p 60fps