Apple Inc. has introduced a fully dedicated video game called Apple Arcade to enter video gaming services, which began with Google´s launch of the "Stadia" cloud games earlier this month, and Microsoft´s announcement. For its X Cloud service.
In this report, published in the French magazine "GQ" in the French version, the writer Jeremy Patril presented this service.
1- Comprehensive service seven days a week
Unlike the Google Stadia or Microsoft X Cloud platform, Apple Arcade is not a video game service, it is a video game subscription service. The user pays a subscription to a full list of games he can play whenever he wants. Test each game, which will be playable without having to be connected to the Internet.
"The subscription makes it easy for the user to access each game individually with all the features, content and future updates, without the need for any additional purchase," Apple said. Just click on the "Arcade" page on the App Store for access to games. According to Apple, this service will receive new updates on a regular basis.
2 - The availability of more than one hundred games
Arcade´s first video game service, after signing up, is to access a list of about 100 "high-level" video games. Many of these games are funded by Apple, and are signed by world renovated video game artists such as Final Fantasy Designer Hironobu Sakaguchi, Ken Wong, who has worked extensively on the Magnificent Valley game, designed for The Sims and Sim City.
"This new service will showcase games from several international video game companies, including Anaporna Interactive, Boza Studios, Cartoon Network, Klee Entertainment, Konami,, Lego Group, and Sega.
If the user does not fit any type of games marketed by these companies, he will find about three hundred thousand other games available in Apple´s application store.
3- Multiplayer games
All video games available on Apple Arcade will be available to play on all Apple products, such as Apple TV, iPad, Mac and iPhone. You can also play a part of the game through a device such as Apple TV, then continue playing on another device such as iPad or iPhone.
One subscription allowed many people to play from the same place, which is what Apple´s Arcade service provides just like family sharing via Apple Music. Not only that, but it can also be played via the Gamepad, a service that is in the making.
4. Smooth without interruption
Such as watching movies or serials on the Netflix service, it will not disturb anything about the smooth running of your game on Apple Arcade. In other words, no ads will interrupt you. As soon as the game starts, you will not be spoiled by anything other than your friends or your work time.
5. Price and launch are in the process of preparation
Apple has not yet announced Apple´s subscription price. Although the company announced the availability of this service in the fall of 2019 in about 150 countries, it did not specify the date of launch exactly. This new video game conserve keeps a lot of puzzles.
