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iPad Pro Is it worth to upgrade to M2 iPad for upcoming resident evil 4?
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The best way to know it is to install the game in your M1 and verify if it can work well. If not, get M2 (buy or borrow) the game and verify if it works. If it does not, return it within return window if you buy it or return it to the lender. If it works, buy M2.
Examining it yourself is always the best so you know right away with your own experience. Good luck 😊
Examining it yourself is always the best so you know right away with your own experience. Good luck 😊
If you want to play AAA games that was made and designed to play with a controller in mind, don't spend $1k to 2k just to upgrade a tablet, buy a PS5 or an Xbox series X instead. Way less money spent, all the games you want with better game related features and better futur proof with update support and you're guaranteed your games will still work in the next years to come. It's a total different story with the mobile market. I still not forgiving Apple and 2k games from unsupported Bioshock making the game unplayable one year later because iOS update broke the game and devs didn't want to update it anymore.
And that's the whole problem with mac gaming, especially with games sold on the App store. Even on Macs, I have many games I bought on the App store that I can't play anymore nowadays, and these games are not that old and should still works when you compare console games and even PC games that Windows can run a 15 years old game without not so much issues sometimes.
So for me, Apple will have to work hard to convince me to buy anything over $10 in term of games on the App store. From now on, its Steam all the way for my Mac, bootcamp for PC games, consoles for all the rest.
And that's the whole problem with mac gaming, especially with games sold on the App store. Even on Macs, I have many games I bought on the App store that I can't play anymore nowadays, and these games are not that old and should still works when you compare console games and even PC games that Windows can run a 15 years old game without not so much issues sometimes.
So for me, Apple will have to work hard to convince me to buy anything over $10 in term of games on the App store. From now on, its Steam all the way for my Mac, bootcamp for PC games, consoles for all the rest.
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The game will be a free demo download that lets you test the performance on your current hardware without paying for the full game. You don't need to buy a new iPad right now, wait for the game to release and install the demo to see how well it fares on your M1 iPad.
Just get a Nintendo Switch, then you have the portable experience as well.
On a second thought, if it works on a Switch it should really work on a M1, the CPU on the Nintendo Switch is quite old and M1 should really beat Nintendo in terms of CPU power.
On a second thought, if it works on a Switch it should really work on a M1, the CPU on the Nintendo Switch is quite old and M1 should really beat Nintendo in terms of CPU power.
Isn’t the iPhone 15 Pro the “gaming upgrade” that Apple marketed? That implies you’d need an M3 to get those advances like hardware ray tracing.
I’d wait and see how it performs on the M1.
Much better consoles for the same price range IMHO.
I’d wait and see how it performs on the M1.
Much better consoles for the same price range IMHO.
Resident evil 4 REMAKE, not coming to switch and Resident Evil Village is streaming only. So yea…no. 🤣
Ah my bad, just realized that the videos I spotted of the RE4 remake on Switch was a streaming service.
Another option is the SteamDeck then
The Steamdeck offers good gameplay and LOADS of good games available...BUT..its feels sometimes that its like going back to the DOS days where you need to figure out the optimal settings for it to work properly. I'd say with and iPad or PS5 its more "plug and play"
In all honestly No, use the money to buy a PS5 or XBOX series X (even an S which is even cheaper) and you will have a far better gaming experience than on a M2 iPad and save some money as well (unless you really, really want to play it on an iPad).
M1 is still pretty powerful for a tablet chip, I imagine it can handle low-mid graphics settings without much lag/overheating.
In the case of M2, that could run mid-high graphics without much lag. Overheating, though, is another story