Adam Kos For Apple, games have always come second, typically behind productivity apps and other tools to help us get work done. After all, this also applies to entertainment itself, which work should first precede. We've been hoping for a long time that Apple would focus a little more on gamers, and it might finally look like that's happening.
Apple doesn't publish games. With the exception of one poker and one runner, when it was just a simple game, that's really all. But it offers huge and wildly successful systems that developers can use to bring their titles to them. It then adds the Apple Arcade subscription platform to them. It does have its drawbacks, but I think Apple is stepping on it, because it is always here with us and new and new titles are added to it all the time.
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The company is also making some strides in its macOS. The ports of No Man's Sky and Resident Evil Village were a good stepping stone, with Hideo Kojima speaking at last year's WWDC to announce that his studio is "actively working on bringing its future titles to Apple platforms".
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While Apple has already established relationships with developers such as Capcom and Kojima Productions, the tech giant also wants to streamline the process of porting games that are already available on Windows operating systems, which is exactly what its Game Porting Toolkit promises. While we're still years away from macOS successfully rivaling Windows in the gaming arena, 2023 was a big year for Apple when it came to changing the perception of macOS as a serious gaming platform. Now it is necessary not to let up and push it into the players head on.
The bright future of mobile platforms
But the biggest move for Apple hardware in 2023 wasn't the Mac, but its iPhone 15 Pro, the company's first phones powered by a chip capable of delivering console-quality games, as shown by Resident Evil Village coming out exclusively for them.
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Apple is really pitching its iPhone 15 Pro as the best gaming console possible, promising console-quality AAA games on them, not watered-down versions of them in some way. Apple will undoubtedly continue its efforts as smartphone technology continues to improve year after year. In addition, we expect to see iPads with the M3 chip this year. They too will have the clear potential to show console-quality games that will satisfy more than one player, and that too on a larger display.
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iPhones and iPads are one thing, the Apple Vision Pro is another. This spatial computer for consuming mixed reality content can redefine the AR gaming market, both mobile and desktop. In addition, we will find out soon what it will look like, in the first quarter of the year. However, it can be assumed that at first we will only see some games to find out what the visionOS platform can do. In addition, the high price does not give much hope that Apple's first headset will become a hit, on the other hand, its successors could already have a relatively well-trodden path to success. So could such a GTA 6 come out on visionOS? It doesn't have to sound crazy.
