These Four Games Are Coming to Apple Arcade

[iDento]

Apple Arcade is for kids, hence it should be included in Apple One’s “Family” only, not the “Personal” tier, and give more iCloud storage instead.

If I want to play games, I look for a company that knows how to make games and then make hardware to run them. That’s why I have a PlayStation and a Nintendo Switch.

 

[groove-agent]

This is what Microsoft did with Xbox and you know what’s going on there. MS made original Xbox as high performance console with their easy-to-develop DirectX for the console. MS doesn’t know about games and they just used their Engineering knowledge with tons of money and didn’t work that well.

If you’re using iOS 26 beta, see what’s happening with Games app. It’s just for lame Apple Arcade curation, not for AAA games on App Store. Its interface shows how they are ignorant on gaming.

Dejavu?

Maybe the cutesy kiddy games (games my wife plays) have a broader appeal to a larger demographic than AAA titles. Their typical hardware isn't currently in a position for competitive AAA gaming so it might make sense to cater to the Apple arcade demographic at the moment. I would never presume that serious gaming is impossible on the Mac in the future because I don't have a crystal ball. However, if we pragmatically think about the trajectory of what Apple has done with gaming on their platform in the last few years, AAA gaming in the future is definitely possible but of course, not guaranteed.

I was going to say that AAA gaming is in a better state than it has ever been, but I don't think that's true. If we consider the Windows dual-booting era of Intel Macs and eGPUs, I think that was the best time. Apple Silicon has given Mac gaming a bit of a setback, but is slowly recovering considering the processor change. It will take time.

 

[YuniHKim]

Maybe the cutesy kiddy games (games my wife plays) have a broader appeal to a larger demographic than AAA titles. Their typical hardware isn't currently in a position for competitive AAA gaming so it might make sense to cater to the Apple arcade demographic at the moment. I would never presume that serious gaming is impossible on the Mac in the future because I don't have a crystal ball. However, if we pragmatically think about the trajectory of what Apple has done with gaming on their platform in the last few years, AAA gaming in the future is definitely possible but of course, not guaranteed.

I was going to say that AAA gaming is in a better state than it has ever been, but I don't think that's true. If we consider the Windows dual-booting era of Intel Macs and eGPUs, I think that was the best time. Apple Silicon has given Mac gaming a bit of a setback, but is slowly recovering considering the processor change. It will take time.

I played Resident Evil 2RE, 3RE, 4RE, 7, 8 all on my iPad, so performance won‘t be a matter. To be honest, Apple Arcade had better games back then at the begining games like Capcom‘s Shinsekai, Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Fantasian etc. more of Apple Arcade original games without +, but now most of games are “+” games means they don’t invest on games anymore.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Apple continues to not understand gaming. Not surprised.

 

[Haiku_Oezu]

Worms hasn't looked right since Armageddon and World Party.

Also who here thinks Worms is a kid game? It's legitimacy a fun turn based strategy game. Or at least was.

“It’s not photorealistic so it must be for children, it doesn’t matter one of the screenshots is a worm pointing a laser scope rifle at another and there’s bazookas and grenades”