Recently, Apple revealed the iPhone 15 series of smartphones, and they are no doubt incredible. Even the promotional video game has an aura of how important those phones are going to be for the next six to eight months. Then came the Pro models, the ones that drive people mad.
These phones are the real deal; they feature Apple’s new A17 chip, and they are said to be as powerful as the current generation of consoles. They are even releasing some very big games on these phones to show off that power. But the question is, can these smartphones make gaming consoles obsolete?
Would the Apple iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max be competitors to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X?
Yup, the future is indeed here, and we cannot contain our excitement. What else do you expect a person to say after they see a game like Resident Evil 4 Remake running on a cellphone? Even before I could react to it, I started seeing comments everywhere saying these phones were going to destroy the likes of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
I had to wait and give it some thought, and I came to the conclusion that, of course, they should. An iPhone 15 Pro costs $999/€1,229/Rs 1,34,900, and a Pro Max costs $1,199/€1,479/Rs 1,59,900. It would indeed be a dying shame if these expensive phones did not just destroy the likes of the PS5 and XSX, which cost close to $500/£399.99/Rs 50,000 in raw power.
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When it comes to power, a chip capable of hardware-based ray tracing on an iPhone does not make me wonder if I should buy it or not. What I wonder is if I should actually just forget that I have a gaming console called the Nintendo Switch.
And still, people ask, “Do you think it can make consoles obsolete?”. Of course, it can; every gamer out there should just sell their consoles at depreciated prices and buy themselves an iPhone 15 Pro on a payment plan. Just so they can play Assassin’s Creed Mirage on a 6.1-inch OLED display, fiddling through a touch screen and making complex moves, it would be akin to heaven!
For years, I saw mobile gamers as a bunch of people who did not know any better. But it appears I was a fool; they knew much better than I did. They knew this day was coming. The day when an attempt at attracting developers towards a device would be seen by many as the start of a gaming revolution.
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