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Gaming could take an interesting direction with the move to Android as well.

Low-end devices using mobile ARM chips are becoming common (e.g. the poster-child Ouya, see Hands on: Ouya review and many other writeups). But those who are used to a "hard core" gaming experience may find the limited power confining.

One alternative being studied by some manufacturers is to run Android on higher preformance x86 hardware instead of ARM. Android gaming on a x86-powered PC with iConsole.tv offers an interesting preview of what may be possible:

Android gaming at home has mostly been limited to low-power consoles like the long-awaited Ouya, but a new company hopes to beef up the platform with some serious gaming PC hardware.

Unlike competitors that rely on mobile chips like ARM processors, iConsole.tv is readying a device that uses an x86 CPU, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 500GB hybrid disk drive/SSD, and an undisclosed GPU. In other words, it's built more like a mini-gaming PC than a feeble Android console.

Of course these should also be able to run most games for the ARM-based Android market, since the bulk of the code is portable Dalvik code and any native code can be included in APKs for autoselection during app installation. I've had no problem running quite an assortment of stock Android apps on an Android-x86 VM under VirtualBox.


Another writeup Hands-on with the iConsole.tv, an Android-powered game system with the heart of a desktop PC has a few more provokative quotes:

Christopher Price, CEO of Mobile Media Ventures, doesn't seem to think so. "Android is the future of personal computing," Price told Engadget. "Even on the desktop." According to Price, developers just haven't had a chance to play with a truly powerful Android gaming machine. So, naturally, he's building one.

If nothing else computer buyers and users are facing some new choices today and in the future.