Assassin’s Creed, Death Stranding, and Resident Evil Are Coming To iPhone
iPhone 15 Pro Resident Evil
Mobile games can massively vary in scope and quality. While it’s easy to have your life taken over by something like Molecano, sometimes you’re looking for something a little bigger, a little more game-y. Xbox game streaming and games like Genshin Impact scratch some of that itch, but there’s no substitute for full-fat console gaming in the palm of your hand. Enter the iPhone 15 Pro.
Apple’s latest and greatest iPhone, announced yesterday, is rocking a pretty powerful chipset under the hood. It’s no secret that Apple’s A-series chips are incredibly good at what they do, and Apple Silicon chips like the M2 seen in Mac products are an evolution of that ethos. The iPhone 15 Pro is using a new chip called the A17 Pro, which is a 3nm chip that features a fast CPU and a very beefy GPU.
Apple says the A17 Pro’s GPU is a 6-core design that is 20% faster than previous chips, and has hardware-based ray tracing, mesh shading, and more. Because of this, it’s able to run console games at near-console quality, and at least three developers have made iPhone versions of some pretty big games.
These games include Resident Evil Village and the Resident Evil 4 remake from Capcom, Death Stranding from Kojima Productions, and even the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Mirage from Ubisoft. That last one is a little bit funny, because Ubisoft has been touting the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Jade as the first and only full-fat Assassin’s Creed game on mobile.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage is said to be coming to the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max sometime early next year, while Death Stranding and the two Resident Evil games are coming before the end of 2023. Pricing information hasn’t yet been confirmed, but you can probably expect to play close to full price for them. They are, after all, the full games you’re getting here, running natively on the hardware.
As for what’s next, that’s anyone’s guess. We imagine whether or not more console games come to iPhone is entirely dependent on how well these ones sell, and that’s far from guaranteed.
