Comment by MBCook

They don’t care about iPhone/iPad gaming either.

They stumbled into the perfect spot with the iPhone, then IAP sweetened it.

Since they found money they support it. But in the process they’ve really destroyed gaming on the platform unless you want casino games or candy crush/clash of clans things designed to extract money and show another ad every 12 seconds.

Yeah they show Resident Evil VIII and Assassins Creed Whatever but they don’t sell much. And the race to free IAPs created mean good games can’t sell even at a single $2 purchase.

Apple Arcade is the only sanctuary. I haven’t heard good things from the dev side, and it’s 80%+ old games from before things were destroyed or IAP riddled games with the IAPs removed, at times not even rebalanced.

I use it because it’s about all that’s left. But iPhone gaming is a shadow of what we had in the early years.

And at this point there is no competition left. The smart phone ate everything. And as far as I know Android games are in the same mess.