I am currently on an old Samsung from maybe 2008/09. The phone has been acting up, and the battery lasts about a day. I figured this forum would get the most varied responses, as going to the iOS one will only recommend iPhone, and vice versa with the other phone board. Is this really the only phone with physical controls? I'm seeing it hover around $200, unlocked. Any input?
Most touchscreen phones are fine for gamin in the short bursts of mobile gaming and do fine.Im currently playing civilization revolution on my Lumia 800 without any problems and works well and im playing ff1 aswell and had no problems with the touch screen either.
go for a decent powered android/wp phone it'll do way better although iOS has the advantage of wider library although droids doing well and WP is playing catchup but still a capable platform and metro woks well with phones considering i just upgraded 2 days ago.
Touch screens just don't do it for me. The controls are necessary for old psx(etc) games, IMO. I've thought about iphone5, SIII, and that new Nokia. However, the pocket ability of the Experia w/controls is what I find attractive--how underpowered is it? I'd imagine it gets a lot of underground support, no?
It was a bit of a failure, it has a few games but from what I know they aren't the best or most modern so if it's a 10 minute bus ride you want to pass quickly then sure it should be great but really the S3 or iPhone 4/5 is better, much more games and much better games.
iPhone 5 is probably still the best gaming phone there is. Android phones are actually matching up a little bit in their library but are still far behind. If buttons are an issue, that's quite a big problem.
Its what i would have gotten if vita hadn't been made. Looking at the games always helps http://www.droidgamers.com/index.php/game-news/android-game-news/1420-here-is-a-list-of-all-the-games-currently-optimized-for-the-xperia-play
Trust me, you're going to want to get an iOS/S2 or S3. Only a select number of Android games work with Xperia's physical controls. It's also a lot less powerful and sports a pretty low screen resolution. For around the same price, you should be able to get an S3 with a contract. So yeah, if I were you I'd pass on the Xperia play and go for an iPhone/Android S2 or S3.
I had the experia play it was good for certain games but there was really no point cause i hardly ever played games on it so it just felt like a gimmick thing than a gaming phone and plus it had hardly any eclusive games on it. it you want a good gaming phone buy a phone which has tegra chip in because they have decent console like games which you cant get on most phone like horn and dark meadow. also you said you don't like the touch screen you could always buy a Bluetooth gamerpad
I'm sorry has it ever been the best phone for gaming??Duckyindiana
Yes--it has the best library of games I'm told. I'm just curious about the negatives, like battery life, screen/sound quality, phone functions, and if the games run at a decent clip. If anybody owns one and would like to comment it would be very much appreciated.
The experia has troible running intensive apps/games like gta III. Frame rate stutters and randomly crashes. Teh phone is really much better for software we aren't supposed to talk about here of which dolphin is one.
[QUOTE="Duckyindiana"]I'm sorry has it ever been the best phone for gaming??Heirren
Yes--it has the best library of games I'm told. I'm just curious about the negatives, like battery life, screen/sound quality, phone functions, and if the games run at a decent clip. If anybody owns one and would like to comment it would be very much appreciated. the battery on the phone is not the best beecause every day i needed to charge it even though i only used it a bit. screen is ok but you defiently need a screen protector as the screen can get scratches on. also newer games will lag mainly due to old hardware. and the worst issue with the play is that most headphones wont work on the phone which was one of the main reason why i hated it
[QUOTE="Heirren"][QUOTE="Duckyindiana"]I'm sorry has it ever been the best phone for gaming??gangstafc
Yes--it has the best library of games I'm told. I'm just curious about the negatives, like battery life, screen/sound quality, phone functions, and if the games run at a decent clip. If anybody owns one and would like to comment it would be very much appreciated. the battery on the phone is not the best beecause every day i needed to charge it even though i only used it a bit. screen is ok but you defiently need a screen protector as the screen can get scratches on. also newer games will lag mainly due to old hardware. and the worst issue with the play is that most headphones wont work on the phone which was one of the main reason why i hated it Thanks for the response. I'm looking around and seeing two versions of the phone? One of them lists a 3.5mm audio jack--that's standard. Are you saying headphones won't work with it? That'd be a killer for me.
[QUOTE="Heirren"] Yes--it has the best library of games I'm told. I'm just curious about the negatives, like battery life, screen/sound quality, phone functions, and if the games run at a decent clip. If anybody owns one and would like to comment it would be very much appreciated.Heirren
the battery on the phone is not the best beecause every day i needed to charge it even though i only used it a bit. screen is ok but you defiently need a screen protector as the screen can get scratches on. also newer games will lag mainly due to old hardware. and the worst issue with the play is that most headphones wont work on the phone which was one of the main reason why i hated it Thanks for the response. I'm looking around and seeing two versions of the phone? One of them lists a 3.5mm audio jack--that's standard. Are you saying headphones won't work with it? That'd be a killer for me. basically all headphones with control talk wont work unless it sony branded headphones. if the headphones does not have control talk then it will work but it really depends on the headphones
[QUOTE="Duckyindiana"]I'm sorry has it ever been the best phone for gaming??Heirren
Yes--it has the best library of games I'm told. I'm just curious about the negatives, like battery life, screen/sound quality, phone functions, and if the games run at a decent clip. If anybody owns one and would like to comment it would be very much appreciated. The CPU has 12 pax game in store with no update and around 50 multiplat android games. It can be hacked easily to play any pax ISP but its under powered and only has 25 so games that work great, then most do not. Another chunk have glitches. And bugs the other chunk has no sound during cutscenes and the rest don't work or unplayable because the xp only has 2 shoulders. Only 13% of the emulated games look fine while all the others look worse.
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