Apple can invest a total of $500 million in the development of 100 premium games for the Arcade subscription service. Financing each will cost Apple several million dollars.
This is reported by the Financial Times.
Apple Arcade is a catalog of exclusive premium games that will be available by subscription. Arcade will be presented as a section in the App Store. Its launch is scheduled for autumn 2019.
All projects in the library of the new service will not contain advertising and microtransactions. They can be played on iPad, iPhone, Apple TV and Mac with progress saved via cross-platform iCloud. However, Acrade is not a streaming service, because all games will be directly downloaded to iOS devices.
The exclusivity of Arcade games means that their mobile versions will definitely not appear on Google Play. But developers are not prohibited from releasing console versions of Arcade titles for PS4, Xbox and Nintendo Switch, the portal 9to5Mac clarifies.
Authors who will publish their games exclusively in Arcade are waiting for some stimulating bonuses. According to the Financial Times, Apple can pay developers advances of $ 1-3 million, assist in the development and synchronization of other people’s game engines with their systems.
The subscription price for Arcade is not called. Experts expect it to be about $10.
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