Right now Apple is showcasing that their platform is fully capable of first tier gaming. They must win over developers, even finance their pockets to start that ball rolling. It’s extremely costly endeavor. With Apple adding 40 plus GPUs in their M3 processors, and you can run a game at full power on battery is an incredible feat that isn’t doable on a PC equivalent.
It is going to take time and eventually the Apple TV box will become that console solution. Right now with Apple Arcade, they are saying we are ready to level up. They support XBOX and Sony controllers and their game library is unmatched on volume for indie developers. And they are slowly adding triple A games to the platform.
So it is happening.
However this is why Microsoft and Sony are buying up all of the smaller game dev companies too. It will move to a fractured ecosystems where exclusives will be single platform. Now, like streaming content, you have to subscribe to more than one platform typically to get the content you want. It’s gonna end up costing us more as consumers, which sucks. Because I’m sick and tired of the fact that the content I currently want to watch is across 5 different streamers instead of just one. WTF!
So the game platforms will suffer that. I’m already on PS5, but I also have a Switch, Apple TV with Apple Arcade, and the Play Date. Not including my iPhone for iOS games. I just picked up the new Atari 2600 that accepts the retro cartridges. I’m tapped out on consoles lol. But even the joy of doing that, it will get really bad like the streamers with the game consoles. And I don’t want that.
I just checked my purchased copy and it’s 4K.
Be sure to check your Settings menu, goto iTunes Movies and TV Shows and be sure Limit Purchases and Rentals to SD is switched off.