Although Apple’s game subscription service Apple Arcade officially launched on September 19th, it can be sneak peek in the iOS 13 beta.

The highlight of Apple Arcade is that there is no advertising, no in-app purchase, iDevice full device support, and the monthly price of 4.99 US dollars (about RMB 36) also makes many people shout “industrial conscience”, but Apple’s kindness is not limited to So, like many of Apple’s services, Apple Arcade also supports home sharing, which means that for $4.99, you can share this service with up to 5 family and friends, with an average of less than $1 per month, rounded to equal. for free.

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What’s more surprising is that Apple Arcade doesn’t have a separate entrance. Apple puts it in the tab bar under the App Store. The interactive interface is similar to the App Store. You can see ratings, reviews, content introductions, etc. After opening the service, you canDownload games like download apps, all games are offline. You can also search for Apple Arcade games directly in the App Store. There will be a prompt above the game name. If the user has not subscribed to the service, the download button will display “Free Trial”. Of course, even without a subscription, you can view Apple Arcade’s gaming directory without restrictions.

Unfortunately, Mainland China and Hong Kong are not on the first list of Apple Arcades, so the younger partners who want to take advantage of it need to have a US ID (or other country in the initial list) and can pay for the Apple ID account, but There are quite a few games that provide Chinese support.

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There are more than 60 games on Apple Arcade, mostly based on stand-alone and decryption. Sea Horn 2 is one of the few console-level games. According to Apple’s official promotion, the number of games will exceed 100 this fall, and some games support the handle.

Foreseeable, with the number of gamesUpdates may have a breakthrough in their types. After all, vendors working with Apple Arcade have both indie developers and large studios like Konami. But as evaluated by techradar, Apple Arade will not be a “hosted subscription platform for Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Now, etc.” Alternatives, you may not see 3A big productions, especially the extremely high frame number games, these games are difficult to run smoothly in the ecology of Apple devices. Apple may still tend to build a casual game platform, as for these games Quality, please pay attention to our recent assessment.

▲ It seems that Apple Arcade does not limit the number of game installments

Exclusive and original is also one of Apple Arcade’s selling points, so the above game is not available in the App Store aloneIf you buy it, you can’t pay it.

Since it is Apple’s product, it is necessary to take advantage of Apple’s increasingly sophisticated ecosystem. Apple Arcade covers platforms such as iOS, Mac and Apple TV and the game state can be seamlessly synchronized. In theory, you can interrupt the game after the phone is interrupted. Open Apple TV or Macbook and play it, provided the device has been upgraded to the latest version of the system, namely iOS 13, tvOS 13, iPad OS, macOS Catalina, etc. The official version of iOS 13 will be launched on September 19.

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