Assassin's Creed Mirage, Death Stranding and Resident Evil Village are coming to iPhone 15 Pro

[Alabtrosmyster]

I bought a phone from Google like 3 years ago for like less than 40000 yen which is approximately 400 USD then, still work great today. Not sure why anyone need 1000 dollars phone if they gonna upgrade every years.

This is a thing even among Android users, some people want the latest Pixel, Samsung Galaxy, etc. many don't care and either get a great mid-tier phone or a run down phone from a friend.

Some people even upgrade their TV on a regular basis!

Now, the last Apple devide I owned was an iPad air (the first gen with their CPU I think)... Anyway, I bought it for my GF after she gave birth to our daughter 10 years ago. It lasted until I killed it last year because my son does not mix well with it and my GF did not want to put the effort into controlling his screen time. These things just will not die. I bought a 2016 macbook pro for my nephew who does music two years ago, again, no problem whatsoever.

So, I don't see the focus on Apple when it comes to them being a bad company and pushing plan obsolescence. I don't use their products, but I find that their phones and laptops are much better built than the vast majority of devices out there, including those in the same price range. With their current ARM cpus their laptops not only perform heavy duty tasks while not draining their battery, they remain silent and do it as fast as the very best intel\amd laptops when they are plugged on the wall (on battery forget it, the performance is abysmal) with the fans spinning so fast that you have to attach the thing to the table or it will fly.

Again, I have a desktop PC and Laptop as well as an Android phone, but I can recognise the unique quality of Apple's products. I just can't live with the drawbacks (can't upgrade the laptop... not a good idea).

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

I'm not sure I was clear:



It's not about graphics, bandwidth, whatever. It's about the game having to be designed with a phone in mind, meaning they have to account for UI / UX, key bindings, mechanics, etc.

If the Series S is a concern, designing around a phone is a problem... no matter how good the phone is. There is no question about that.

 

[KiryuRealty]

This is a thing even among Android users, some people want the latest Pixel, Samsung Galaxy, etc. many don't care and either get a great mid-tier phone or a run down phone from a friend.

Some people even upgrade their TV on a regular basis!

Now, the last Apple devide I owned was an iPad air (the first gen with their CPU I think)... Anyway, I bought it for my GF after she gave birth to our daughter 10 years ago. It lasted until I killed it last year because my son does not mix well with it and my GF did not want to put the effort into controlling his screen time. These things just will not die. I bought a 2016 macbook pro for my nephew who does music two years ago, again, no problem whatsoever.

So, I don't see the focus on Apple when it comes to them being a bad company and pushing plan obsolescence. I don't use their products, but I find that their phones and laptops are much better built than the vast majority of devices out there, including those in the same price range. With their current ARM cpus their laptops not only perform heavy duty tasks while not draining their battery, they remain silent and do it as fast as the very best intel\amd laptops when they are plugged on the wall (on battery forget it, the performance is abysmal) with the fans spinning so fast that you have to attach the thing to the table or it will fly.

Again, I have a desktop PC and Laptop as well as an Android phone, but I can recognise the unique quality of Apple's products. I just can't live with the drawbacks (can't upgrade the laptop... not a good idea).

All the "planned obsolescence" narrative-pushers know nothing. Macs and iPhones outlast most other gear, and, well, I am far from the only one out there with 10, 20 or even 40-year old Macs that still work perfectly fine, while most PCs and Android devices are in dire need of replacement before they hit 5 years of service, should they somehow make it that far.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

All the "planned obsolescence" narrative-pushers know nothing. Macs and iPhones outlast most other gear, and, well, I am far from the only one out there with 10, 20 or even 40-year old Macs that still work perfectly fine, while most PCs and Android devices are in dire need of replacement before they hit 5 years of service, should they somehow make it that far.

I would love to get my hands on a Quadra 840av!

 

[KiryuRealty]

I would love to get my hands on a Quadra 840av!

At one point, a friend of mine gave me four fully-functional Mac II SXs. I had no use for them, but it was kind cool to have a stack of what were once $10,000 machines sitting in my basement.

 

[JAHGamer]

Basically, what I’m trying to say is unless Apple rewrote the laws of physics, there’s just no way. No matter how good the silicon. A phone will never surpass a full sized console, not unless a large amount of time has elapsed.

Take that silicon, possibly, *out* of a phone and into a box and things might be different although I still have my doubts. That’s where M2 and the like take over.

You got it wrong, it’s already happening, compare iPhone 14s A16 bionic benchmarks to desktop grade PC benchmarks. It’s already in the 99th percentile.

 

[Yurinka]

Phones are finally getting a decent GPU and CPU comparable to consoles and PCs, and both get supported by engines like Unreal, Unity, Godot, etc.

It's just a matter of time that all markets will converge and merge into a single ecosystem: buy a game in the Apple App Store and play it on iPhone, iPad or Mac. Buy a game on Google Play and play it on Android phones, tablets, tvs or Windows.

And once Apple and Google will get forced to allow 3rd party stores, you'll see the console makers also having their stores in mobile and PC with games also being cross-buy, cross-play and cross-save between console, mobile and PC.

We still aren't there, but this is another step. It may take 5 or almost 10 years, but we'll get it there.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

You got it wrong, it’s already happening, compare iPhone 14s A16 bionic benchmarks to desktop grade PC benchmarks. It’s already in the 99th percentile.

Those who don't want to believe it, I had an iphone 14 with an M1 macbook pro for a little while and tested an app that did photogrammetry (take a bunch of pictures or film of an item\place from all angles and convert that to a textured 3D object).

Well, the M1 macbook pro trounced my desktop PC's performance (RTX 2080 + Ryzen 7 5800... pretty amazing at the time). Conversions that took about 1 hour or more on the PC would barely take a few seconds on the Mac.

The processor etc. is similar to what's in the iPhone.

 

[anonpuffs]

I'm going to laugh if Apple enters the market and stomps out Xbox.

 

[KiryuRealty]

Those who don't want to believe it, I had an iphone 14 with an M1 macbook pro for a little while and tested an app that did photogrammetry (take a bunch of pictures or film of an item\place from all angles and convert that to a textured 3D object).

Well, the M1 macbook pro trounced my desktop PC's performance (RTX 2080 + Ryzen 7 5800... pretty amazing at the time). Conversions that took about 1 hour or more on the PC would barely take a few seconds on the Mac.

The processor etc. is similar to what's in the iPhone.

Dolphin on my MacBook Pro, which is the 13-inch M1 model, so pretty much the bottom of the line, can run Gamecube games in 4k internal rendering resolution at 60FPS with the odd dip in intensive games without the fan even kicking in.

 

[KiryuRealty]

I'm going to laugh if Apple enters the market and stomps out Xbox.

There are already way more Apple TV HD and 4K models out there than Series consoles, so all it would take is some marketing push.

 

[Airbus]

Now, the last Apple devide I owned was an iPad air (the first gen with their CPU I think)... Anyway, I bought it for my GF after she gave birth to our daughter 10 years ago. It lasted until I killed it last year because my son does not mix well with it and my GF did not want to put the effort into controlling his screen time.

Why did u still refers someone who gives you a daughter as gf...

 

[anonpuffs]

Why did u still refers someone who gives you a daughter as gf...

In America there's a lot of reasons not to get married.

 

[KiryuRealty]

In America there's a lot of reasons not to get married.

Dude, that’s true globally.

 

[anonpuffs]

Dude, that’s true globally.

America has a few more though

 

[Banana]

I don't care very much about how powerful the chip on my phone is my current android is perfectly capable of doing everything a phone is supposed to do & then some & it cost me less than £400

Yep, I'm the same way. Playing games on a phone sounds as appealing as writing a report. You can do it, but why would you?

 

[KiryuRealty]

America has a few more though

Not really.

Honestly, Canada is worse. A guy here got told by the court that he had to pay support to an ex-wife he’d divorced 20 years ago when she became severely ill, even though their divorce agreement had no alimony agreement!

 

[Kokoloko]

Jim and Hermen are the weakest leaders in the industry

MLB and DS going Gamepass. Steam getting PS games while nothing is given back. Other mistakes too
You are correct sir

 

[Darth Vader]

Not really.

Honestly, Canada is worse. A guy here got told by the court that he had to pay support to an ex-wife he’d divorced 20 years ago when she became severely ill, even though their divorce agreement had no alimony agreement!

Do you have any source on that? Would love to read what bullshit excuse they provided.

Here in Ireland I just found that if I have a kid while unmarried my only right is to pay alimony, nothing else. I have no right to visit, educate, interact, due to being unmarried with the mum.

 

[JAHGamer]

MLB and DS going Gamepass. Steam getting PS games while nothing is given back. Other mistakes too
You are correct sir

Thank you, finally someone that understands