From time to time, Apple makes an try and push its platforms as a spot for severe gaming. If the newest report from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg is correct, the corporate will strive once more this 12 months with the launch of iOS 19, macOS 16, and its different yearly OS updates.
In accordance with the report, Apple plans a devoted, pre-installed gaming app on iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple TV. The app will debut at WWDC on June 9, and roll out to these gadgets with iOS 19 and macOS 16 (or a subsequent replace) later this 12 months.
The app will function editorial content material about new video games (just like what you’d discover within the App Retailer at present), entry to the App Retailer’s video games part and Apple Arcade, and centralize all of the stuff presently dealt with by Sport Middle, like associates lists, achievements, leaderboards, and communications. The Mac model of the app is claimed to have the ability to “faucet into video games downloaded exterior of the App Retailer.” Doubtless, meaning that it’s going to function a launcher for these video games, and that the core identification/achievements/leaderboards features will likely be accessible to builders through APIs even for these video games distributed exterior the App Retailer.
Apple lately bought the two-person studio RAC7 Video games, whose Sneaky Sasquach was an Apple Arcade launch title. It’s unclear if that is the primary of many acquisitions as an try for Apple to construct an enormous first-party video games studio, but it surely doesn’t communicate to the sorts of premium video games that drive gross sales of PlayStation, Xbox, or Swap consoles. Reasonably, it signifies a drive for extra cell gaming, an space through which Apple is already dominant.
To earn the respect of so-called “AAA” recreation builders, publishers, and gamers, Apple might want to do way more than pre-install a gaming app on its gadgets. We are going to discover out extra about Apple’s gaming ambitions at WWDC on June 9, when the app and its options are stated to be revealed.
