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The newly-revealed iPhone 15 Pro will be able to run Death Stranding, Resident Evil 4 and more with ray tracing.
Apple’s newly-revealed iPhone 15 Pro is an unexpected gaming powerhouse, featuring specs beefy enough to run modern games like Resident Evil Village thanks to the company’s new A17 Pro chip. The chip not only allows users to play newer titles on the iPhone 15 Pro, but it also runs those games with real-time raytracing enabled.
The company also revealed that Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Death Stranding and Assassin’s Creed Mirage are all among titles that are coming to the iPhone 15 Pro over the course of the next 12 months. Silicon engineering group VP Sribalan Santhanam announced that the A17’s internal GPU allows games to run with raytraced reflections four times faster than currently-available chips on the market, which use software-based rendering. The VP referred to it as the, “fastest chip ever on any smartphone.”
With that much power in such a small package, it’s no wonder that Apple’s new flagship phone can now run games most would need a PC or gaming console to play. Apple’s presentation showed off mobile games like Honkai: Star Rail, Genshin Impact and The Division Resurgence running on the phone smoothly, but made a point to say that Resident Evil 4, Death Stranding and Resident Evil Village would also be playable later this year. Assassin’s Creed Mirage will only arrive next year, with all of these titles being their console ports.
While it’s unclear how the games’ console versions will support touchscreen controls, Apple has confirmed that the iPhone 15 Pro will support Bluetooth-enabled controllers like Sony’s DualSense controller. These phones cost a bomb, not that this should come as a surprise to Apple users: the 128GB iPhone 15 Pro starts at $999 with a 6.1-inch screen, while the 256GB iPhone 15 Pro Max starts at $1199 with a 6.7-inch screen. Pre-orders for both phones open up on September 22, 2023.
Resident Evil Village is also playable on the Mac while Death Stranding is set to arrive on the platform later in 2023, but the real question is: when will these games be playable on Apple’s Vision Pro AR headset?
