Well most of these AAA ports aren’t exactly new and people interested in AAA gaming likely already have something like a PC, gaming console or Steam Deck, which are all better suited to these types of games, because they have more power than a mobile device and/or built-in controllers.
Like, what is the setup for playing at home? Mirror an iPad to an Apple TV via AirPlay to play on your TV with a Bluetooth controller?
And on the go, you either need a bluetooth controller and a way to hold your iPhone while holding the controller, or get one of these clip-on controllers.
Then there’s pricing, with the games often being a lot cheaper at least on Steam.
Exactly this. I would 100% buy AC: Mirage if it worked on my Apple TV natively (since you can use a controller) and Ubisoft didn’t suck a big fat donkey dick. They can go to hell with their Ubisoft Connect bullshit.
Turns out people don’t wanna pay console/PC prices to play games on their mobile devices. Who knew.
An inferior version of the game, by all accounts too. Worse graphics and performance.
They’re not AAA games on an iPhone - they’re tech demos.
Does the iPhone support Bluetooth/wired controllers? I can’t imagine myself buying one of those just to play Assassins creed on a small screen.
It does
Bluetooth, yeah. Wired might or might not still need to be specifically for iPhone, though.
I use a backbone and it’s pretty nice. Wouldn’t buy any of the listed games for iPhone at full retail but I only pay that for a couple games I really care about.
Owning a high end Apple device strongly suggests owning a high end console as well. Maybe the target demographics (rich gamers) already own those games on their favorite platform, so why buy it twice.
I think it’s a good thing that they are available on that store so whenever a better device comes from apple that can run them, that will be the moment they will truly shine. But iphone 15 and ipad? I guess not.
