The world’s first tri-fold smartphone, the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design, was just announced yesterday and already someone decided to get hands-on with the device flaunting the incredibly unique form factor. What better way to commence your experience than by firing up Black Myth: Wukong through cloud gaming, and with all three smartphone displays completely unfolded, it is a sight to behold.
With all the displays fully unfolded, the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design looks like a tablet being used to play Black Myth: Wukong
The AAA title developed by Game Science uses Unreal Engine 5 and is a visual masterpiece. Unfortunately, the graphics fidelity comes at an extreme cost, with even the most powerful GPU in the world right now, the RTX 4090, requiring some form of upscaling to run it fluidly. Even in our review, our significantly capable RTX 4080-powered rig failed to render a respectable framerate, concluding that smartphones and tablets with comparatively underpowered hardware will fail to run Black Myth: Wukong as well.
Fortunately, the clip shared by Living In Harmony shows that the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design is running the game through the company’s cloud servers. The only caveat is that 5G needs to be enabled or else Black Myth: Wukong will not start. Even at a modest bitrate consumption, cloud gaming can quickly chew through your data if you are not using a Wi-Fi connection, but this video serves a different purpose. What is pleasant to see is that the title can naturally adjust the aspect ratio based on how many displays are unfolded.
Huawei 3-Fold plus Huawei Cloud can play Black Myth Wukong, but the prerequisite is to have 5G network #HuaweiMateXT #BlackMythWukong pic.twitter.com/LzHD89Uy0q
— Living In Harmony (@LivingInHM) September 11, 2024
Assuming this post was shown to someone who did not know about the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design’s existence, we are confident that the individual would mistake the device for a tablet. However, the ceiling lights reflected on the display show that there is some visible crease, so whoever intends to immerse themselves in such a gaming session will need to dim those down or experience the same distraction. In terms of hardware, the Mate XT Ultimate Design is too weak to run AAA games like this natively, as even the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which ran it through emulation, rendered a slow and blurry mess.
