I can’t imagine wanting to play a AAA game on a phone, but that sounds really impressive. Qualcomm has been dormant for a while. They also had a great opportunity to break into the laptop space with Windows’ ARM support getting very good, but they’re still doing nothing…
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.
I have a very hard time believing the Thermals will be able to handle it. Apple is notoriously bad at cooling
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 .
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
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).
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.
Dedicated high end phone processors should have better thermal management than Steam Deck’s cut down notebook processor.
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.
This could also potentially mean they are coming to Macs with Apple silicon
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
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
