I played Resident Evil on the iPhone 15, and it’s an alternative future for gaming

For a long time it’s felt like the dominant vision of gaming’s future has been cloud-based, with Xbox spinning up Game Pass into its be-all-and-end-all, and PlayStation starting to get in on the fun, too. Apple’s iPhone 15 launch event might not have been where you’d expect to see a counterpoint, but that’s nonetheless where it emerged, in the form of an impressive tech demo of the last two Resident Evil games running natively on iPhone 15 Pro hardware.