Mobile phone games have become a very important part of our entertainment these days. With the development in animation technology and the improvement of our mobile phone interfaces, gaming has become more popular than ever now. Do mobile phone games use data? Let us find out.
LESS THAN VIDEOS
It is a fact that playing mobile phone video games uses lesser mobile data than streaming videos or live videos online. If you stream a high-quality 4K video for an hour, you can use up to 6 GB of your data or more but the games might only consume somewhere around 50 MB for an hour.
TYPE OF GAME
This factor plays a very important role in estimating the amount of mobile data that is being consumed while playing. Some mobile phone video games download high definition graphics during the course of gameplay, some games online communication and interaction with players from all around the world.
VOICE INTERACTION
As mentioned before, voice over internet protocol that is being incorporated in many mobile phone video games these days can cost some amount of data. For instance, VOIP interactions in games can make use of almost 15-50 MB for an hour based on various other factors such as the number of people involved in the VOIP.
IN-GAME FACTORS
There are so many intrinsic factors involved in various games that call for the access of the internet and cause you to lose data. Especially games such as PUBG, Battlefield and so on involve in-game access to various online resources, interactions with remote players, integration of the gaming consoles of all the remote players involved with the game, accessing overall scoreboards, location access and so on. Augmented reality games such as Ingress and PokemonGo can cost you even more data as they require continuous location access.
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