Qualcomm may have grown tired of being just the chipmaker supplying other brands, or just want to see if they’d have a future by making their own devices. Whatever it is, if it is fulfilled, it will surprise many. Because everything points to you could be working on your own portable console. A proposal in the purest style of the Nintendo Switch and that we are not sure if it would be interesting or a foot shot.
Qualcomm and its future Android-based game console
For the vast majority of us, if not all of us directly, Qualcomm is the company that brings hundreds and hundreds of phones to life every year with its processors. And who says processors also says modems to connect to mobile networks.
Well, according to Android Police, it seems that now they would be interested in launching a new product that would not be a new chip but an already complete device for the consumer market. A mobile phone of your own? No, a portable console in the purest style of the Nintendo Switch.
At first the idea does not sound bad at all, although it must be admitted that the subject has a bit of a trick. Because although it is pointed out that it would be a rival of Switch, by that same factor, by the controls that could be removed if the user wants, etc., it would not stop being a product based on Android 12 and that already gives an idea of what would be the game catalog.
Exactly, all the titles available in the Play Store would be what you could play on this Qualcomm portable console, and also all the games accessible through streaming platforms such as Stadia, GeForce Now or the future platforms of Microsoft and Amazon, xCloud and Moon respectively.
Therefore, this console that Qualcomm would launch would not cease to be basically a phone that also takes away the telephone part, because connectivity to 5G networks would have and it is logical to be able to access all these streaming game services and other services of leisure.
A hit or a shot to the foot?
Without a real product that can be properly valued, it is difficult to judge whether the idea of launching a portable console by Qualcomm is good or bad. But it is true that if it is going to be a device based on Android 12 and its catalog will be identical to that of any other smartphone, what would its value and attractiveness be compared to the rest of the options?
Having a 6,000 mAh battery and a larger screen than many mobile phones could be, along with a possible competitive price, the main attraction of this rumored product. Because the controls is something that today has a solution with products like the Razer Kishi that we could already analyze here.