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If you're only wanting to make games for iOS, sure. The moment you want to make games for any other platform in addition to iOS, you have to look to other optio

If you're only wanting to make games for iOS, sure. The moment you want to make games for any other platform in addition to iOS, you have to look to other options (or be willing to work on multiple codebases, which I have less and less time for nowadays). I've got a game half done in Swift with SpriteKit that I did as a learning exercise, and it was a smooth experience, but I'm having a hard time justifying putting more time into it when I would rather spend it working on something that I could make a build for PC, Android, and consoles as well. Hence why my efforts are more in Unity now.

Razengan 9y ago
> If you're only wanting to make games for iOS Not just iOS, but macOS, tvOS and watchOS as well. You can easily reuse like 90% of the code, save for the platform-specific windowing/views and player input subsystems. Xcode even comes with a cross-platform game template. Although I do want to be able to develop for the Nintendo Switch as well, I don't mind being limited to the Apple ecosystem for now; it's the more lucrative market, and I get faster access to the latest tech, but most important of all, is that I know my potential users will have access to that latest tech (see Android fragmentation and adoption rate). Sometimes, I don't even have to rewrite or do anything to have my games use the latest tech; when Metal was introduced, SpriteKit and SceneKit were updated to use it under the hood instead of OpenGL, giving a performance and efficiency boost to all existing games for free, without even recompiling!