I am not a very long time owner of the Nexus, but was wondering about gaming limits on the Nexus. My reason for asking is that while browsing games on Google Play, most are listed as incompatible with my device. I am not in America or Europe, so could this be because of my location, or is the Nexus just not a good phone for games?
That's weird, almost all games I find are compatible with mine but I'm in america....
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That is probably just your location messing up google play's app selection :cyclops:
The nexus is perfectly capable of running most new games available in the market now. Bear in mind, developers have to optimize their apps/games for crappier devices too, so you can expect to have a fine gaming experience.
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It handles quite good and the phone didn't get that hot.
Hah.. It's not about me it's about you and showing you these games.
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looks smooth - well impressed
now get a list of the best games and apps together
really really good
All I'm worried about is that the next gen games won't work well with the Galaxy Nexus. These games look great, but with Apple and other companies (e.g Samsung) pushing mobile gaming, and the new mobile GPU's that are coming out, ours is already obsoleted and probably won't be good enough to play a lot of games in the future
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All I'm worried about is that the next gen games won't work well with the Galaxy Nexus. These games look great, but with Apple and other companies (e.g Samsung) pushing mobile gaming, and the new mobile GPU's that are coming out, ours is already obsoleted and probably won't be good enough to play a lot of games in the future
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From what I've seen, gaming on the "higher end" phones simply just add useless eye candy and don't effect overall game play at all. I love eye candy, don't get me wrong, but I don't fear that we'll be left out in the cold.
With Quad-Core not even out yet, I don't think we'll be seeing anything that requires a "Quad-Core or higher" for a long time.
I also just noticed how the software buttons rotate depending on orientation. Life's simple joy!
Forgive me for not being so knowledgeable on technology, but I would be mistaken in thinking that even if Quad-Core is released, most phones won't even be able to utilise it properly for a good year or two? And by the time they are put to good use, all our Galaxy Nexus contracts will be up and we'll be eligible for an upgrade and we'll be hopping on the newest Nexus?
So quad-core doesn't even matter for a while even if they are being released next year?
Back on topic the phone looks insanely smooth, even when you had all them games open it was silky! I'm loving it a lot, getting it tomorrow
could you test the kairosoft games? like game dev story and the others?
on honeycomb if you used mulittouch zooming all their apps crashed. kinda worried it may be the same with the GNex.
The screen is good but until the games are updated 'proper' we will not know how good performance can really be.
The screen is really good.
I read on another thread that Gameloft games will not work on the Nexus, is that true?
Edit: Nevermind, I just saw the video and he plays 9mm
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The screen is good but until the games are updated 'proper' we will not know how good performance can really be.
The screen is really good.
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Exactly my thoughts. For example on mine Plants v. Zombies looks great and works great for a few minutes, then freezes when under heavy load (i.e. "Final Wave" pushes). It can't be the GPU or memory issues because other (just as graphically heavy- if not more so) games (like Tiki Golf 2) are perfect.
I just want to clarify how good that first game is?
Check out the Verge's Transformer Prime review http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/1/2601558/asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-review
They play the game and attach it to a 52" HD screen!
Hi I have a myTouch 4G Slide on T-Mobile and was wondering if how is the Play on AT&T compared to it. I have wanted a Play but I was on contract and was not able to get one, but now that I'm off I would like to consider this phone.
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Depends on how much of a fan you are of video games (especially emulation) cuz that's the main reason to get the PLAY. It's a bit less powerful than your current phone (single core too), but still plenty fast.
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Depends on how much of a fan you are of video games (especially emulation) cuz that's the main reason to get the PLAY. It's a bit less powerful than your current phone (single core too), but still plenty fast.
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Well I do run a lot of emulators on my current phone. And I would be better with the gamepad the Play has.
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The Xperia Play is the phone for emulators, absolutely perfect!
I got mine simply for the gamepad, and I've never looked back since.
I know it's not the best phone out there but it does what I need and what I want it to
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Well I just gave away my phone (to someone who truly needed it) so I'm going to order on Sunday. Thanks for the replays
Ok when I bought my nexus, I was aware of the issues regarding the fragmentation of the Android market, which results in compatability of most games, and wasn't expecting to use the device as a gaming unit anyway, as I have an ipod touch, just for gaming. But was out on research this weekend and didn't carry my ipod, and due to the bad weather in England, ended up staying longer, were we was, so I read an article that stated that virtua tennis by Sega,which was previously only exclusive to Sega, was now available for other android devices, so bearing in mind this phone is Google, s own baby, fired android market or play, as it's now called, and you can imagine my surprise when I was met with "app not compatible with your phone ", seriously, what chance do other phones have if the Google phone itself has compatibility issues with some games unbelievable to say the least. So that means, the developers loose out as I cannot purchase the app, and this is were IOS is stronger, on gaming only, otherwise android is better everything else, I wish Google would sort this out.
It's up to the app developer to make updates for in this case ICS and higher resolution. ICS is still fairly young so not all developers have updated or will ever update their apps for new versions.
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ICS will slowly work out problems such as this. The problem is that not everything that came before ICS will make the transition. The other problem is that ICS is too new. Aside from the Nexus users, ICS barely exists. Updates are only now rolling out for certain phones.
It's frustrating now, but hopefully in the future things will become better. Google is working hard at this. They've already started releasing better tools to devs.
If the app shows up on Google Play on your phone then it sure should be compatible or it would not be there. Did you change your screen density? That is one thing that will give you an app incompatability issue in the market.
Hello all. Kinda combining 2 different topics/questions into one thread. I just have a couple of questions regarding the Nexus 7 (2nd gen):
1. I've never bought a tablet before but if I understand correctly, there's a Google Nexus 7 and an Asus Nexus 7. They are the same tablet correct (I've noticed that even on the Asus ones, it still has "Nexus" on the back)? Is there a benefit of buying the 7 from Google as opposed to Asus?
2. For anyone who plays emulators, what are your recommendations? I plan on playing only the major systems (GBA, DS, Playstation, PS2 (if it exists) and maybe trying out the Dolphin GC/Wii emulator for a bit). Since most SNES games have been ported over, I won't really bother with that one.
Thanks!!
1. The Nexus 7 is manufactured by Asus but branded by Google. There aren't two different models, it would just be that the store you're looking at is incorrectly branding it as the "Asus Nexus 7." Based on the retailers linked from the official page you have:
Nexus 7 (this is on the Play Store so it makes sense that they don't brand it as Google there)
Google Nexus 7
Nexus 7 From Google
Google Nexus 7 By Asus​
Just make sure you're looking at the Nexus 7 2013 model and not the 2012 model. It could be branded as the "FHD" model as well. If you're in a country where it can be purchased from the Play Store I really recommend buying it there. If you buy it from the Play Store Google will handle any warranty claims and will usually replace it for a new device in the first year if a defect pops up. If you buy it from anywhere else you have to deal with Asus service which can be slow.
2. Although I really, really hate the idea of paying for an emulator, the *.emu emulators by Robert Broglia are by far the best I've found. Retroarch is decent (though mysteriously absent from the Play Store recently) but the touch controls on the .emu emulators are much more precise. I've also run into far fewer bugs in general with gba.emu/gbc.emu/nes.emu. Snes9x EX+ is a free SNES emulator made by the same guy, so it will show you the interface and everything. And to say that every worthwhile SNES game is ported to Android is a bit ridiculous
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1. The Nexus 7 is manufactured by Asus but branded by Google. There aren't two different models, it would just be that the store you're looking at is incorrectly branding it as the "Asus Nexus 7." Based on the retailers linked from the official page you have:
Nexus 7 (this is on the Play Store so it makes sense that they don't brand it as Google there)
Google Nexus 7
Nexus 7 From Google
Google Nexus 7 By Asus​
Just make sure you're looking at the Nexus 7 2013 model and not the 2012 model. It could be branded as the "FHD" model as well. If you're in a country where it can be purchased from the Play Store I really recommend buying it there. If you buy it from the Play Store Google will handle any warranty claims and will usually replace it for a new device in the first year if a defect pops up. If you buy it from anywhere else you have to deal with Asus service which can be slow.
2. Although I really, really hate the idea of paying for an emulator, the *.emu emulators by Robert Broglia are by far the best I've found. Retroarch is decent (though mysteriously absent from the Play Store recently) but the touch controls on the .emu emulators are much more precise. I've also run into far fewer bugs in general with gba.emu/gbc.emu/nes.emu. Snes9x EX+ is a free SNES emulator made by the same guy, so it will show you the interface and everything. And to say that every worthwhile SNES game is ported to Android is a bit ridiculous
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Thanks!!! Quick and to the point. The Google/Asus makes sense. I've heard about Retroarch but never tried them, but I'll take your advice on the .emu emulators. Thanks again!
Edit: Forgot to ask. So is it safe to assume that the most recent emulators (in terms of most recent game consoles) for andoird would be Drastric (Nintendo DS) and PPSSPP (PSP Emulator)? I havent looked much at PPSSPP yet but Drastric seems compatible with most of the games.
Yeah, I think someone is working on a Wii emulator but it doesn't seem to be very functional yet. Everything PSX and earlier (that's a fairly popular system and attracted enough developer attention) should work.
Edit: And yeah, the DS/PSP emulators are definitely coming along.
With the quad core processor and 2 gigs of ram it seems to hold up pretty good as a dedicated gaming tablet. What do you all think of the gaming potential of this little machine?
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I played all HD games that exist in play store!
All games played excellent on high graphic
GTA SA
Call of duty
Fifa 14
Anomaly 2
Backstab
MC 4
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perfect for gaming
Big4570 said:
With the quad core processor and 2 gigs of ram it seems to hold up pretty good as a dedicated gaming tablet. What do you all think of the gaming potential of this little machine?
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try ppsspp and play almost all your old psp games.so if it runs like a psp that's basically a portable gaming console...at least for me...even plays at higher resolutions....connect a joypad...but I try to keep gaming to a minimum...as in most lithium batteries, it will really push out the charge cycles and the battery is not replacable...still excellent bat life for me at least....
I think it's one of the best tablets on the market.
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I think it's one of the best tablets on the market.
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This! All Games i have are Smooth to play without laggs or something similar.
Games i tested:
GTA: San Andreas
GTA: Vice City
Ravensword2
NOVA 3
Order & Chaos
and a bunch of games like Final Fantasy (3 - 5), EKO online, Iruna Online, world of goo etc
All this Games are playable on the highest settings.
Its one of the higher spec tablets (if not the highest spec tablet in the "smaller" 7 to 8" form factor), so obviously its going to hold its own with games for some time to come.
Tablet is great, but the battery should be better.
galaxy note 3 not seen as a tablet on playstore?
So being the proud owner of samsung galaxy S3 I found my self jealous of my friend being able to play Magic the gathering duels of the planeswalkers 2014 on his samsung galaxy tab 7 everywhere i read that the game is only compatible in tablets and thought hey I can do the same so purchased the slightly larger screen and better spec Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet on craigslist brand new, quickly destroyed the box and jumped to the play store ready to get my beast on! And surprice surprice! "Your device is not compatible" irritating would be how I would describe my current status if some one can shed some light as of how to over come this aweful situation im not trying to illegally obtain the game I want to pay for it and play it be able to get addons and updates please help and thanks in advance.
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Darth Breh said:
So being the proud owner of samsung galaxy S3 I found my self jealous of my friend being able to play Magic the gathering duels of the planeswalkers 2014 on his samsung galaxy tab 7 everywhere i read that the game is only compatible in tablets and thought hey I can do the same so purchased the slightly larger screen and better spec Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet on craigslist brand new, quickly destroyed the box and jumped to the play store ready to get my beast on! And surprice surprice! "Your device is not compatible" irritating would be how I would describe my current status if some one can shed some light as of how to over come this aweful situation im not trying to illegally obtain the game I want to pay for it and play it be able to get addons and updates please help and thanks in advance.
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I think you can unlock all apps/games in the app store (even those that are not compatible with your device) by installing xposed framework and the appropriate module using wanam xposed or xblast from the play store. Not 100% sure but worth a look unless someone else can shed some light or suggest something else.