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Resident Evil Village Now Available on iPhone 15 Pro and M1/M2 iPads
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At this point it's like - who cares if it's practical?
Your phone is a beast, that lets you play games that were thus far reserved for current gen consoles, big rig PCs and Steam deck like handhelds.
Sure, iPhone takes great photos and runs that TikTok app all the youngsters are so crazy about, but I'll buy this game just because the thing can play it and inflate demand with my adult money, only to throw my 5 cents worth into convincing devs that it's worth making games for iOS.
Good for you, but how many of these will you eventually need? Also, if you didn't purchase the game when it was delisted, you're out of luck even if you do have a legacy device.
You are the one that is joking. The iPhone 15 Pro Max is 6.7 inch while the steam desk is 7 inch.
Calling 6.7 vs 7 inch much larger.
18 percent of battery for 30 mins of gameplay is a bit heavy. This will accelerate battery degradation.. no wonder they put 80 percent limit on recent hardware
Bearing in mind that was on an iPad with its big battery. I'm predicting it'll be worse on an iPhone.
They need games optimized/developed for mobile. These are just games ported from PC and console to mobile.
The optimizations they do on porting games to/or developing for switch always have battery life and performance in mind. On switch in undocked mode, it barely gets warm and even the fan never comes on as the games are optmized and hardware downclocked as a compromise.
On iOS, I know from experience that some games make the devices run terribly hot. The iPad and iPhones are just not made for gaming. Their thermal solutions are only made for light and bursty processor loads.they have no heat pipe/heatsink and rely on conduction to the case only… which is in direct contact with battery. On the switch the battery section is mostly isolated from the heat generated by CPU.
I suspect part of it's also due to the lack of active cooling in iPads. A Switch with a broken fan can get pretty toasty in handheld mode too. About 1/3rd of the inside of an iPad is empty space used as acoustic chambers, I wonder if some of that space could be used for active cooling?
I mean, this is basically true. But at least on a PC or Mac, it's been promised before that if one of the game stores (like Steam) should ever get discontinued, they'd take steps first to "unlock" all of your downloaded content so it runs without needing to communicate back to the store first.
Main thing you can do is make sure you downloaded/installed every title you bought and make backups.
You mention the "lifetime" of the console, so around 6-8 years (take the Wii U as an example). Not really forever and not much different than any Apple device.
There are 8 year old iPhones and iPads downloading and playing games from the App Store now.
Your comparison is erroneous because app availability in iOS is not tied to a device lifecycle; instead, apps are tied to a range of iOS versions. This means that if the app is not allowed to run past iOS 14 and you run iOS 17, there's no hope for you to ever download and run that version. Not only that, there's no way to ensure that the app you buy now will remain supported in the next X iOS versions. This means that you could by a shiny new device and see your app unsupported in the ext 2-3 iOS iterations (which would be around 1.5 to 3 years, much less than a console lifecycle).
I've had it happen to me around 2-3 times, by the way. One of the games was a "Simon Says" game, and when I upgraded my iOS, it would not run any longer because it was not supported.
Too bad they don't keep that with iOS. Like I said before, if you have a fresh iPhone and you want to run an old app for whatever reason, you're out of luck. Your best hope would be to download it through *ahem* alternative sources *ahem*, but even if you do manage to install it, there's no guarantee it'll run.
Do you know how components and operating systems work? You prob don't based off this embarrassing post you just made
SteamDeck:
298mm x 117mm x 49mm
iPhone 15 Pro Max:
159.9 x 76.7 x 8.3 mm
The steam deck is 6 times thicker than the iPhone 15 Pro Max and almost double the width.
You are embarrassing yourself. The iPhone is a much bigger gaming device than the Steam Deck is.
The iPhone is so good, Apple makes more money than even Microsoft and Nintendo just from gaming alone.
So what? The iPhone 15 Pro Max has twice as much power with nearly the same screen size. The makes the iPhone 15 Pro Max a superior portable gaming device in terms of hardware.
I mean, the Mac excels at a niche. It doesn’t have mass success, and there’s NO chance for mass success, but it’s profitable enough for now to keep them in production.
Resident evil village plays and looks great with the backbone one controller.