this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023

52 points (93.3% liked)

Games

37376 readers

1840 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

Submissions have to be related to games
No bigotry or harassment, be civil
No excessive self-promotion
Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts
Mark Spoilers and NSFW
No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here and here.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Resident Evil 4 remake, Resident Evil Village, Death Stranding and Assassin’s Creed Mirage coming to iPhone 15 Pro (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

all 17 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[+] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

[removed by mod]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's easy to not notice the march of time, but it's good to remember that these are all games built for ps4, which is decade old hardware at this point. So this is about expected for the latest mobile hardware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be honest, technology isn't the main factor to be amazed with but the fact that we are going to get such AAA games even when iOS nor Android are the market for it, you know, they are no Candy Crush or any regular gatcha game...

I don't even have an iPhone anymore, but even if I did I wouldn't get those titles there, I will never forget Apple (or Epic or whoever fault is) to turn their back to Infinity Blade games, the third one even was a tech demo with an iPhone presentation FFS! (Does that ring a bell BTW?), and so many other good AAA like games have been lost in the time, especially with iOS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

That's just apple money hatting it. It's not capcom going oh let's do this, it's apple saying we will pay for this and hope we can grow the apple services segment by doing it.

That's how everything on apple arcade went

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If a Steam Deck from last year can play those, a 2023 device that costs three times as much better be capable of the same.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have a very hard time believing the Thermals will be able to handle it. Apple is notoriously bad at cooling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

~~If you read the article you would know this is all being done via cloud gaming. So the phone isn't doing the processing/rendering. Its just being given a stream that you can interact with. Latency and honestly I imagine graphical quality will suffer due to compression but maybe AV1 encoding will give it a bit of a lead. I'm not saying this isn't awesome but its no secret cloud gaming may not have great longevity and I doubt Apple is going to let you keep your copy of _________ if they ever shut down the service. ~~

This is apparently incorrect, these are running natively which is surprising. So I will retract my former statement but keep it for posterity .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe its just poor wording in the article. Other articles are saying that they will run natively.

https://www.polygon.com/23870369/resident-evil-4-remake-assassins-creed-mirage-iphone

https://www.ign.com/articles/iphone-15-pro-adding-resident-evil-4-remake-assassins-creed-mirage-and-more-in-2024

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'll be damned, I seem to be wrong. I don't know how they are going to run these games natively but I'll be damned they are running natively (probably).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It will probably be extremely cutdown versions of those games. Yes, its a powerful chip, but it isn't magic. You don't need the highest quality textures or resolution when running on mobile screen sizes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dedicated high end phone processors should have better thermal management than Steam Deck's cut down notebook processor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's a question of active vs passive cooling, not thermal management. Yes an arm processor is much better at thermal efficiency that x86 processors, but it can still throttle from passive cooling given enough time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This could also potentially mean they are coming to Macs with Apple silicon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Death Stranding coming to Mac was announced at WWDC in June.

The pre-order page is up on https://apps.apple.com/us/app/death-stranding-directors-cut/id6449748961

RE: Village is already available: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/resident-evil-village/id1640627334

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It would be amazing if it went well and smartphones were finally taken seriously because they have so much unused potential for videogames. I know the A17 Pro should be perfectly capable of running these games in theory, but with the crap cooling of the iPhone we'll have to see