Apple says all its current iPhone 16s play AAA games, no iPhone Pro required

Apple has unveiled the iPhone 16, claiming it would be that you just would agree with to play AAA games on all gadgets within the line-up – and now not apt on the pricier Pro items, as modified into the case closing yr.

Apple started bigging up the iPhone’s AAA gaming credentials with 2023’s iPhone 15 fluctuate, asserting the likes of Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Resident Corrupt 4 Remake would all be playable exclusively on the ray tracing enabled iPhone 15 Pro.

twelve months on and the iPhone 16 is here, providing what Apple claims to be a 30 percent CPU and 40 percent GPU enhance over closing yr’s model, courtesy of the present A18 chipset – designed to tackle the firm’s computationally anxious on-tool AI aspects, due later this yr. And that further oomph (which contains hardware-accelerated ray tracing on the iPhone 16) methodology AAA is now not relegated to the iPhone Pro.

Apple says the inferior iPhone 16 is in a position to taking part within the already launched likes of Loss of life Stranding: Director’s Lower, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Resident Corrupt 4, and Resident Corrupt: Village. Digital Foundry beforehand looked at all four games working on the iPhone 15 Pro, reporting blended results, so it would be attention-grabbing to spy how this yr’s phones examine – even when claims of low AAA gross sales on iOS mean we obtained’t spy an influx of current enormous-title titles anytime quickly.

The iPhone 16 (which contains a current bodily Digicam Again watch over button, and the beforehand Pro-most productive Movement Button) begins at £799 for 128GB of storage and a 6.1-plod point to. The 6.7-plod iPhone 16 Plus, within the meantime, costs £899 for the identical storage, and or now not it’s most productive up from there. Over on the Pro aspect of issues, pricing begins at £999 for the 6.3-plod/128GB model, or £1199 must you are after the 6.9-plod Pro Max. All items delivery on Twentieth September, with pre-orders available from Thirteenth September.

In connected news, Apple has confirmed iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 will each delivery next Monday, 16th September. These current working machine upgrades introduce