Bold still.

I mean, I haven't been this interested in a smartphone for a very long time.

As I'm sure you can tell.

There's so many changes to the day to day adjustments that you make as a user.

And, of course, the questions they're all flowing in.

I covered a couple of those things in the previous video in which I compared this galaxy fold to the other flagship device is comparing YouTube, multi window, multi application, Instagram, Facebook and whatnot.

So if you're interested in that, go check out that video.

But this video exists to address a very specific question.

Gaming.

What about gaming on this phone?

You have this gigantic display now.

You would think it would work really well for gaming.

Where my skepticism came in in the early stages was around the types of games that exist for mobile.

They're designed with a smartphone form factor in mind, something like this.

And then so typically the controller layouts the experience pretty much the whole thing is developed around that form factor.

So I was like, Let's see what's happening in games.

Let's play a few games What's better?

What's worse and so forth?

Maybe we should kick it off with Mario.

Run.

Look at that.

Okay, so Mario Run is an interesting one because it's a portrait game, and then the other thing is like, Is the screen really being taken advantage of?

Does the game get any better having Maur displayed in some games?

Yes, Other games, maybe less sold in this game, for example, you kind of just end up with more sky like a lot of it.

Some people love this game.

Some people hate this game.

It's an homage to the original, but it's definitely not a replacement for the original.

And it's just the kind of game that requires very little input from you.

So many games air developed for for play on tiny little screen, so the interaction is limited by the hardware.

I say this is an example of a game that doesn't really benefit that much from the bigger display.

And maybe you could argue that argues worse on the biggest baby.

Beyond the fact that it looks great, the overall experience of that game is tuned for a smartphone slender portrait display more so than this unusual form factor in my opinion.

Now, this next game I'm gonna say is the opposite All toes adventure kind of snowboarding down this hill and you jump over some rocks and you chase these, uh, these creatures, these llamas.

I just hit a rock there because it's so bright in here.

These things here, you can grind.

There you go.

See this game.

I feel like benefits.

A lot of games that work in landscape mode, I think benefit because it sets your hands further apart.

But it frees up all this extra space here.

So if you saw in this game, for example, the hill is kind of coming from here, you just would see a lot less of where you're coming from and where you're going.

Now there's other games you could say.

For example, you know it's our defense game, for example, like this.

You just have more room to maneuver and to look at what you're doing, I'd say it improves the experience quite a bit.

It's like playing it on a tablet.

So Tower Defense games.

I think our bonus.

You could still play on the exterior display.

Maybe I should do that real quick I don't know if anyone would actually do this.

You could play this game here with one hand.

So far, having used this device, I did hate using this like I don't want to use the screen.

This screen is just strictly a backup for like picking up a phone call.

That's it.

So far, using this exterior display is just a bit depressing, like it works.

And as you can see, this game is totally developed for a smartphone experience.

It's a bit depressing.

You know that you have this enormous screen on the inside.

You could do other things on it, but I don't recommend it.

Pop it open.

It takes two seconds.

Yes, there's the option with portrait style games to go onto the outside, displaying and play them in a more typical smartphone fashion.

But I do not recommend it.

Another example of that is this game down well, which I find to be kind of terrible on the full display, aiming it works.

It's developed more for a narrow, a narrow display, and you don't really benefit from the extent that display now.

I should get into the couple of examples where this thing's amazing Pub Ji is a game where I feel like it's beginning to take advantage of the extra real estate.

This is a game, which is the shooting came you have on screen controls, which take up space.

Now on a typical smartphone, the whole experience is pretty cramped.

This is the opposite experience.

This is like a tablet experience, but the benefit is it doesn't have the weight of a tablet.

This thing is so much lighter than a typical tablet.

You feel like you have a real advantage over someone who's playing just on a regular smartphone.

And the same thing actually goes for the left thumb stick.

You just have more room to roam around without interfering with what you see.

Like I said, that's the perfect example, the extra real estate and what that means for you within the game, whether you're launching the map and trying to look a precise stuff for you.

When I targeted that guy earlier and I had to cross hairs, I looked down the cross hairs and he's a tiny little speck, so having it scaled up does.

There's a There's an actual value in that.

So when you're thinking about picking this up as a gaming device.

I think it's important to think about which game you like to play, and then you'll know whether there's gonna be an improvement.

This one looks amazing.

So this is C.

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And this one is really showcasing the hardware better.

That presents interesting opportunities as well for game developers to think about these formats differently, like what mobile gaming has to be if you're not confined to the typical smartphone form factor.

Dude, he's gaining.

It's another one that I feel like benefits from the bigger display because it just looks good.

It's just mortar.

Look at I'll do zombie bill here.

So this is a side scrolling type of game.

I mean, you move up and down a little bit, but it's very Arcady.

What's the benefit me?

Are you really gonna be that much better at it?

It's just more room to roam around.

It just looks a bit better.

It looks good, very colorful, So this is like a forward moving, swipe kind of situation.

Jump swipe.

Oh, that's a duck, by the way.

Thes type of games, I do feel like are better on a bigger display as well because you could have more deliberate swipe movements, come in and just looks cooler as well.

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You just Seymour.

Obviously.

So what have we learned here?

Well, yeah.

I mean, this thing is a powerhouse.

It's not gonna have a problem with any mobile gaming graphics center out there, whatever it is that you want to play.

But some games, I think you're actually gonna have an advantage on here games like Pub G, whereas others actually don't work as well like down well, for example, or possibly Mario run.

So it does depend what type of games you're into.

You do have the external display if you want to play a one handed kind of casual game, the type of games I would want to play there all better when utilizing the extended, the bigger display that the fold gives you, it doesn't get too hot, not overwhelmingly.

And it gives you kind of a tablet like gaming experience.

Without the vessels you would typically have on a tablet or the weight that you would typically have with a tablet.

So you get the bigger display without those downsides.

And then at the end of it.

You can, of course, just pop it in the pocket.

So, gaming, as expected, it's good on the fold.

I think you'll be happy with it.

But single handed vertical games might not work so well, so keep that in mind.