how can smartphones have 108MP cameras, yet conventional cameras achieve better results with apparently less MP

Question

I get that more MP is better ends up being pure marketing. However I don’t understand why all cameras don’t bring 108 MP sensors or whatever. I’m confused.

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Answer 1

Explain like your five: it’s all about your cameras eye (sensor) the larger the eyeball the more it can see. Mp is only how well it can see in the sense that a young man can see better (high mp ) than an old man (low mp).

Also cameras have to do with how wide an eye can open. The same way a cat can see in the night because its eyes are nice and big and wide but we can’t see very well.