Apple has unveiled its iPhone 16 line-up, announcing it'll be possible to play AAA games on all devices in the range - and not just the pricier Pro model, as was the case last year. Apple started bigging up iPhone's AAA gaming credentials with 2023's iPhone 15 line-up, announcing the likes of Assassin's Creed Mirage and Resident Evil 4 Remake would all be playable the £999+ ray tracing enabled iPhone 15 Pro. 12 months on and the iPhone 16 is here with a 30 precent CPU and 40 percent GPU boost over last year's model, courtesy of the new A18 chipset in preparation for Apple's computationally demanding on-device AI features, due later this year.
And that extra oomph (which includes hardware-accelerated ray tracing on the iPhone 16) means AAA is no longer relegated to the Pro. Apple says the base iPhone 16 is capable of running the already released likes of Death Stranding: Director's Cut , Assassin’s Creed Mirage , Resident Evil 4 , Resident Evil: Village. Digital Foundry has previously looked at all four games running on the iPhone 15 Pro, reporting mixed results , so it'll be interesting to see how this year's iPhones compare - even if claims of low AAA sales on iOS mean we might not be seeing an influx of new big-name titles anytime soon.
The iPhone 16 (which includes a new physical Camera Control button, and the previously Pro-only Action Button) starts at £799 for 128GB of storage and at 6.1-inch display. The 6.
7-inch iPhone 16 Plus, meanwhile, costs £899 for the same .