iPhone 15 Pro will play Resident Evil 4, Assassin’s Creed Mirage

Apple’s next iPhone will boast some surprising gaming power. The company announced Tuesday that the iPhone 15 Pro, which is powered by Apple’s new A17 Pro chip, will bring real-time ray-traced graphics to its flagship phone. The hardware will power native mobile versions of Capcom’s Resident Evil VillageThe following are some examples of how to get started: Resident Evil 4 remake, as well as Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding.

Sribalan Santhanam, silicon engineering group VP, introduced the new chip during Tuesday’s Apple event and promised that the A17’s internal GPU can run ray-traced reflections smoothly — four times faster than software-based rendering on current chips. Santhanam called it the “fastest chip ever on any smartphone.”

To showcase that speed, Apple brought out the developers of Ubisoft’s The Division Resurrection, an upcoming free-to-play spinoff of the franchise,The following are some examples of how to get started: Hoyoverse’s Honkai: Star Rail and Genshin ImpactShow those games on the iPhone. Capcom revealed that it will also bring console versions to mobile phones. Resident Evil Village and this year’s Resident Evil 4iPhone 15 Pro will be remade this year. Kojima Productions’ Death StrandingThe iPhone 15 Pro is getting the game this year. Ubisoft is bringing the console version to next year. Assassin’s Creed MirageiPhone

“This is the first time the console version of Assassin’s Creed will be natively available on a smartphone,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior VP of worldwide marketing. Ubisoft has released multiple mobile platform Assassin’s Creed games over the past 15 years, but MirageIt appears to be first app to directly port iOS.

Apple, Capcom, and Ubisoft did not discuss touchscreen controls for those games, though Apple did promote that iPhone supports Bluetooth controllers, including Sony’s DualSense for PlayStation 5.

Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro pricing starts at $999, with 128 GB of storage and a 6.1-inch screen. iPhone 15 Pro Max is priced at $1,199 and comes with 256GB of storage. It also has a 6.7″ screen. The pre-orders will begin Sept. 22, and both models are available.