Apple Arcade is already live. For now only for users with the iOS 13 beta, but on the 19th it will be for everyone. What is it, what does it offer and what should you know before jumping into the game? That is what we are going to answer here. All about Apple Arcade, Apple's subscription gaming service.
What is and what does Apple Arcade offer
Apple Arcade is the Apple's new subscription gaming service and it is not a streaming game service as some companies are preparing. Here the games are still downloaded to the device to run locally on it.
The price of Apple Arcade is 4,99 euros per month and that will give access to all the games that the company is adding to the catalog. Right now there are just over fifty games, but it is likely that the official launch day will reach the more than one hundred that Apple announced.
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The idea is that the catalog of titles grows week by week, although that also implies that just as they are added, they could also be removed. If for any reason a developer wants to leave Apple Arcade, their game will be removed from the service and you will no longer be able to play it.
Another interesting aspect of Apple Arcade is that it is compatible with "Family". That is to say, if you are a member of a family unit and you pay for Apple Arcade, the rest of the people within the same family will also be able to enjoy the service without having to pay 4,99 euros per month again. This is great news, and if you share expenses it makes it even cheaper.
Once you sign up for Apple Arcade for the first time, you get one month of use of the service for free. After those first thirty days is when they will begin to charge you the fee of 4,99 euros per month. Logically, you can cancel any you want.
The games in Apple Arcade are installed like any other, when you have the subscription active, if you go to the Arcade tab you will see that the games appear with the Get button next to them. If you press it, the game will begin to install, and once done you can play directly.
It is also important to know that Apple Arcade allows you to play any game offline of its catalogue, as long as having an internet connection is not an essential requirement. Like, for example, in LEGO Brawls for battle modes against other players.
Finally, Apple Arcade will not only be available on iOS, It can also be enjoyed on macOS, tvOS and iPadOS. That is, on any Apple device, from the iPhone to the iPad, Apple TV and Mac, you will be able to play the games that are present in Apple Arcade.
Currently, the titles available on Apple Arcade are:
- Nautical Dread
- Mutation
- Overland
- Card of darkness
- Operator 41
- Sayonara Wild Hearts
- Agent intercept
- Patterned
- Where Cards case
- Stellar commanders
- Big time sports
- skate city
- ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree
- Dodo peak
- Various daylife
- Hot lava
- Over the alps
- Spell drives
- oceanhorn 2
- Punch planet
- Grindstone
- King's league ii
- Shinsekai into the Depths
- Word laces
- Shantae and the Seven Sirens
- Projection: FirstLight
- Cat Quest II
- Bleak sword
- Neo Cab
- Way of the turtle
- WHAT THE GOLF?
- Frogger in toy town
- Sneaky sasquatch
- The enchanted world
- Spaceland
- Red reign
- Cricket through the ages
- Lego brawls
- Dead End Job
- lifeslide
- Assemble with care
- Tangle Tower
- Exit the gungeon
- tints
- Rayman mini
- The get out kids
- The pinball wizard
- spec.
- Don't Bug Me!
- Exploittens
- Mini motorways
- Speed Demons
- Dear Readers
iOS 13 and support for Xbox and PS4 controllers
With iOS 13 another great and interesting novelty will arrive that you can take advantage of to enjoy Apple Arcade even more: the support for Xbox One and PS4 controllers. Through this compatibility, you can pair any of these two controls to use them with your Apple devices.
In some games whose controls are still exclusively touch controls it won't make sense to do so, but in others like Oceanhorn 2 it will completely change the way you play and enjoy the title.
To connect an Xbox One or PS4 controller to your Apple device You just have to follow the following steps:
- Turn on your Xbox One or PS4 controller and hold down the pairing button.
- Go to the Bluetooth settings on your iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, or Mac.
- In the list of devices will appear listed, select it.
- In a matter of seconds it will be linked and you can use it as normal.
Some Xbox One controllers do not have a bluetooth connection, so only those for the Xbox One S, X or the Elite 2 model work. Likewise, if you do not have a console you can buy one of these controllers separately or the Steelseries Nimbus , a gamepad designed for iOS devices.
Apple Arcade's big problem
Given all this, now comes the time to talk about the big problem that Apple Arcade is going to suffer, or rather, those users who like to play and bet on the service: the storage capacity of their devices.
Apple Arcade will show Apple's stinginess when it comes to integrating 64GB of base on their new iPhones. A capability that could be more or less justified if other manufacturers whose devices cost much less did not offer it. But with the price of the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro, as with the 128 GB of Mac notebooks, taste little.
Making a calculation of the weight of the games that are currently in Apple Arcade, we add almost 50 GB. It is true that you are not going to install them all, but as the catalog grows, updates, new content, levels, etc. are installed, it is very likely that you will end up with no available space. This will force you to delete or uninstall data that you may not want to delete.
Therefore, although it is true that everything is a matter of management, knowing that in an iPhone, iPad or Mac you are going to have a lot of other data and applications, Apple should have offered a base capacity in these new devices greater than 64 GB.
So, if you're going to buy a new device, you should think about whether it's more worth it to go for the next leap in storage, despite the price. And if you already have a device that has this capacity or less, you will have to juggle so as not to saturate your storage.