Apple unveiled its new iPhone 15 series at its Wonderlust event on Tuesday and announced plans to bring some AAA console and PC games to mobile platforms. That said, if you buy the iPhone 15 Pro, it’s powered by the cutting-edge six-core A17 Pro chipset, allowing games to run natively on ray tracing-enabled devices. Games such as Resident Evil 4 Remake, Resident Evil Village, Death Stranding and the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Phantoms will be available on iPhone 15 Pro later this year to early 2024. The company has historically boasted about the gaming capabilities of its mobile devices, but this will be the first time we actually see it in action.
Part of this has to do with the reluctance of AAA game developers to release games on Apple’s latest devices, which is understandable considering Apple’s previous hardware wasn’t powerful enough to run high-profile games at suitable frame rates. Hideo Kojima was the first to embrace the company’s new proposition, announcing that his genre-defying package delivery game Death Stranding will be coming to macOS later this year. At the time, we saw some slightly laggy raw footage of the game using the Metal 3 graphics processing system, although no mobile port has been confirmed as of yet. AAA gaming on mobile previously relied on cloud-based technology to stream PC and console games to handheld devices, whose performance was severely affected by varying internet speeds.
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It’s crazy to think that the newly announced Resident Evil 4 remake will soon be playable on mobile devices, allowing us to return to a brutal Spanish village to save the President of the United States’ daughter from the clutches of an Illuminati cult. Even more strikingly, Assassin’s Creed Phantoms will launch on PC and consoles on October 5, and will come to iPhone 15 Pro early next year, marking the first time a mainline game in the series will run natively on a mobile device . In the chapters set in Baghdad, you play as Basim Ibn Ishaq, a thief who is indoctrinated by the Hidden One clan and promoted to a professional assassin. Ubisoft is also taking a back-to-basics approach with this game, focusing on cunning stealth assassinations rather than the open-world RPG the series has veered toward over the past few years.
Another Ubisoft game on the iPhone 15 Pro is The Division, a mobile game through and through, set in a post-crisis New York City where an outbreak of a deadly virus has led to the collapse of society and government. It will also launch on Android in fall 2023.
While this all sounds cool, I find it hard to imagine anyone willing to pay AAA prices to play these games on a small screen. Not to mention, having to deal with translucent on-screen buttons that take up the motion analog stick on the left and the action buttons on the right. Of course, connecting the iPhone 15 Pro to a detachable mobile controller (like Backbone’s Android Controller) via USB-C alleviates some of the issues, though I really wish these games would offer the option to disable touchscreen controls. Then there are battery and thermal management factors. There’s a lot we don’t know yet.
Apple’s latest iPhone 15 series will be released on September 22, but the specific release date of the iOS game has not yet been determined.
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