Resident Evil 4 Remake, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, and More Soon Headed to iPhone 15 Pro

The games will run natively on the ray-tracing-enabled iPhone 15 Pro, thanks to the new A17 Pro chipset that powers it.

Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Manas Mitul | Updated: 13 September 2023 12:22 IST

Resident Evil 4 Remake, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, and More Soon Headed to iPhone 15 Pro

Photo Credit: Apple

Assassin's Creed Mirage is going back to the series' stealth-based roots

Highlights

Resident Evil Village, Death Stranding are also coming to iPhone 15 Pro
Assassin’s Creed Mirage will release early 2024 on the iPhone 15 Pro
Pricing details for these AAA games haven’t been confirmed yet

Apple unveiled its new iPhone 15 lineup at its Wonderlust event on Tuesday, announcing plans to bring some AAA console and PC games to the mobile platform. That is if you purchase an iPhone 15 Pro, which is powered by the cutting-edge six-core A17 Pro chipset that allows for the games to run natively on the device with ray-tracing enabled. Games like Resident Evil 4 remake, Resident Evil Village, Death Stranding, and the upcoming Assassin's Creed Mirage will be out on the iPhone 15 Pro later this year and into early 2024. The company has historically boasted about its mobile devices' gaming performance, but this would be the first time we ever actually get to see it in action.

This partly has to do with AAA game developers' reluctance to ship the titles on Apple's latest devices, which is understandable considering its hardware previously wasn't strong enough to run high-profile titles at decent framerates. Hideo Kojima was the first to embrace the company's new claims, announcing that his genre-defying package delivery game Death Stranding would be headed to macOS, later this year. At the time, we got to see some slightly laggy raw footage of the game utilising the Metal 3 graphics processing system, though there was no confirmation of a mobile port until now. AAA gaming on mobile previously relied on cloud-based technologies to stream PC and console games onto handheld devices, where the performance was heavily affected by varying internet speeds.

Resident Evil 4 Remake Review

It's insane to think that the newly-released Resident Evil 4 remake will soon be playable on a mobile device, throwing us back into the ghoulish Spanish village to save the US President's daughter from the clutches of the Los Illuminados cult. Even more remarkable is the fact that Assassin's Creed Mirage — out October 5 on PC and consoles — is headed to iPhone 15 Pro by early next year, marking the first time a mainline entry from the franchise will be playable natively on mobile. The Baghdad-set chapter has you play as Basim Ibn Ishaq, a small-time thief who gets indoctrinated into the Hidden Ones clan and rises the ranks to become a professional assassin. With this entry, Ubisoft is also taking a back-to-basics approach that's focused on crafty stealth assassinations, rather than the open-world RPG affair the franchise veered into in the last few years.

Another Ubisoft title coming to the iPhone 15 Pro is The Division Resurgence, which is a mobile game through and through, set in a post-crisis New York City after a deadly virus outbreak led to the collapse of society and the government. It will also be available on Android in autumn/ fall 2023.

While all this sounds cool, I find it hard to imagine anyone would be willing to pay AAA prices to play these games on a tiny screen. Not to mention, having to deal with the translucent on-screen buttons that would take up the left-hand side for a movement analogue stick and the right for action buttons. Sure, some of this can be mitigated by connecting the iPhone 15 Pro to a detachable mobile controller via USB-C — Backbone's Android controller, for instance — though I really hope that the games come with an option to disable touch-screen controls. Then there's also the battery and heat management factor. There's so much we still don't know.

Apple's latest iPhone 15 series goes on sale on September 22, but there are no concrete release dates for the games coming to iOS.

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Apple iPhone 15 Pro

KEY SPECS
NEWS

Display 6.10-inch

Processor Apple A17 Pro

Front Camera 12-megapixel

Rear Camera 48-megapixel + 12-megapixel + 12-megapixel

RAM 8GB

Storage 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB

OS iOS 17

Resolution 1179x2556 pixels

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Resident Evil 4 (2023)

REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Good
Looks amazing and is well-optimised
Massively improved controls
Characters are more suited to the times
You can parry incoming attacks now
Knife durability adds a sense of resourcefulness
Over-the-top action sequences
Gory combat

Bad
Ada Wong's voice acting feels off
Shadows can get too dark
Some bonus modes have been scrapped

Read detailed Capcom Resident Evil 4 (2023) review

Genre Survival horror

Platform PlayStation 4 (PS4), PlayStation 5 (PS5), Xbox Series S/X, PC: Windows

Modes Single-player

Series Resident Evil

PEGI Rating 18+

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Resident Evil Village

KEY SPECS
NEWS

Genre Survival horror

Platform Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 (PS4), PlayStation 5 (PS5), Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PC: Windows, PC: macOS

Modes Single-player

Series Resident Evil

PEGI Rating 18+

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Assassin's Creed Mirage

REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Good
Tighter scope
Baghdad is dense and lively
Stealth is back
Effective and clunky combat
No icon clutter on map

Bad
Dull story and characters
Stiff voice acting
Repetitive, non-challenging gameplay loop
Dumb enemy AI
Overpowered skill tree
Lack of Tool variety
Lack of regional diversity in map

Read detailed Ubisoft Assassin's Creed Mirage review

Genre Action-Adventure

Platform Amazon Luna, PlayStation 4 (PS4), PlayStation 5 (PS5), Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PC: Windows

Modes Single-player

Series Assassin's Creed

PEGI Rating 18+

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Death Stranding

KEY SPECS
NEWS

Genre Action-Adventure

Platform PlayStation 4 (PS4), PlayStation 5 (PS5), PC: Windows

Modes Single-player

PEGI Rating 18+

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