Phones are becoming more powerful every day, but it’s still impressive to see someone running Red Dead Redemption II or Grand Theft Auto V on a mobile device, even if the performance is not as good as on a PC or console.
YouTuber Serg Pavlov uploaded videos present themselves when testing various PC games on the Red Magic Pro 9, a powerful $650 Android phone designed for gaming. And the results are definitely impressive. Using a Windows PC emulator running on the phone, Pavlov tested dozens of games, recorded their performance and the settings used, and documented all tests in a table
As VideoTech discovered on TwitterPavlov got Red Dead Redemption II runs on the Red Magic Pro 9, but is barely playable. In the videos showing Rockstar’s open-world game on the device, you can regularly see performance dropping into slideshow territory, even with the settings turned all the way down.
But that is actually the case Red Dead Redemption II, the full game running on a phone using an emulator. Even if it runs poorly, it’s still a cool proof of concept and a sign of how quickly phones are catching up to PCs and consoles in terms of raw performance. As some commenters have pointed out, their older PCs won’t even run it Red Dead Redemption II
We’ve seen Apple push harder and harder to launch big games like this Resident Evil Village And Death Stranding on newer iPhones Mixed results. It’s clear that phones, even the high-end and powerful ones, are still unable to perfectly play some of the biggest games of the last few years. But these tests that Pavlov uploads show that we may not be that far away from a big game like this GTA 6 simultaneous launch on consoles, PCs and phones.
At least these videos convinced me that Rockstar should release a native version of Grand Theft Auto IV to the Google Play Store so fancier phones can play around with it and don’t have to mess with an emulator.
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