Play Xbox Games on Your Cell Phone?

And the gaming alternatives keep coming today. Mobile gaming isn’t anything new, but the quality has never been up to par with the latest generation consoles. ARM plans to change that, as early as the end of this year.

ARM graphics product manager Remi Pederson recently promised that their new mobile GPUs, slated to come out at the end of this year, will make Xbox 360 gaming possible on a cell phone. The Mali-200 and Mali-400 are said to bring 4x to 16x anti-aliasing, and soon OpenGL ES 2.0 to mobile handsets. Purported to run 16 million triangles a second and 275 million pixels a second, the Mali-200 GPU certainly won’t have a problem running Flash and Java games.

The Mali-400 will come in single-core on up to quad-core GPU configuration, supposedly able to scale to 1080p resolution. HD viewing on a mobile phone sounds pretty sweet. The good news is ARM isn’t (yet) tethered to any specific manufacturer, so we could see this functionality and performance in multiple cell- and smartphone brands by later this year or early next year.