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Equipped with Apple's A10X Fusion chip, the new Apple TV 4K packs some serious processing power, transforming the set-top streaming box into a decent gaming platform. We sifted through the tvOS App Store to find the best free games that show off the new device's capabilities.

Our top 15 game picks for tvOS:

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Comments (43)

cali

said about 4 years ago

That list is downright depressing.

%100 of those games were available last gen for the A8 professor. Nothing new.
This means %0 of games are gonna show odd the power of this new device.

Any games supporting native 4k HDR? Is the upcoming Sky at least supporting it? They never said it would or wouldn’t.

Apple really should have made deals with developers to release native 4k HDR versions of their games.

Sorry guys we’re not gonna see 4k upgrades on games anytime soon.....

Soli

said about 4 years ago

cali said:
%100 of those games were available last gen for the A8 professor. Nothing new.
This means %0 of games are gonna show [off] the power of this new device.

One things I see gamers obsessive over are frame rates which is why they want better HW for their current games so they can increase it. Does having a better processing not help with increasing that aspect of the game or are those people lying?

goncalo81

said about 4 years ago

The day that a game like NLH from ea sports will be available on Apple TV, then we will talk....

cali

said about 4 years ago

Soli said:

cali said:
%100 of those games were available last gen for the A8 professor. Nothing new.
This means %0 of games are gonna show [off] the power of this new device.

One things I see gamers obsessive over are frame rates which is why they want better HW for their current games so they can increase it. Does having a better processing not help with increasing that aspect of the game or are those people lying?

These are graphically weak games that were already running at 60fps on AppleTV 4.

This article could have came out in 2015 with the headline:
“The best tvOS games for Apple TV 4”
with an identical list.

Real Racing was the benchmark for iPhone when they’d release a new version every generation. Real Racing 3 is still hanging onto iPhone 5 visuals.