Pleasantly Surprised

Full disclosure, my experience with modern gaming consoles was an Xbox 360 in 2009 that I used to play the Godfather 2 game. Prior to that, it was PS1 in the late 90s. That said, to someone like me that hasn’t seen the latest consoles and all their capabilities up close, the games on Apple Arcade (when played on Apple TV with a PS5 controller) are pretty amazing. I play Fantasian because I remembered a FF on PS1 that was fun, and this is very similar. And NBA 2K25. I’ve actually gone on YouTube and watched gameplay of the NBA game on a PS5. Sure, details are on another level for the console but I would argue the graphics for the game on Apple TV (to my untrained eye) are not incredibly far off. Deeper details in the stadiums is the main difference I’ve noticed in the console, but even that…looks good to me. Of course there’s the Adult Swim racing game which my whole family loves. I’m just an older guy rambling I guess because the consoles today always made me nervous in terms of needing internet, physical games, online accounts or whatever else. This Apple Arcade stuff is right up my alley though. I’m hardly an Apple Stan, but I’m happy with Arcade. I just hope enough people use it to warrant Apple getting more games, especially on TV. Anyone here have some other ideas that I may have missed in the store?