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Apple showed several AAA games like Assassin's Creed running on iPhones.

• jsheard 2y ago
  But approximately nobody actually bought them, which comes back to the point about all that compute power being a solution in search of a problem. People don't want to play AAA games on a phone. https://mobilegamer.biz/under-2000-people-have-paid-to-play-resident-evil-7-on-ios-estimates-say/ https://mobilegamer.biz/under-2000-people-have-paid-to-play-...
  • ac29 2y ago
    Thats a lousy article. Its based on 3rd party estimates of sales of a game released only 2 weeks before the article date. And, its a 2017 console title released on iOS in 2024, so presumably most fans of the series had already played it (it was released on 8 platforms before iOS). "AAA" is kinda a vague term, but there are definitely some big budget games on mobile that do massive numbers (hundreds of millions of dollars).
  • guidedlight 2y ago
    These aren’t games designed for touch devices. They are console games ported to iOS. To play them you need to pair a controller, making the experience subpar.