Johar

Not a lot of that from Apple since, well, you know what. Sadly.

The problem of Apple's failure to mainatin developer's interest in the Mac platform is only a matter of will. Mr. Cook has intentionally made an enemy out of GPU champion Nvidia, offered many generations  of severely underpowered Intel based computers and been astonishingly arrogant towards game developers. I think the current come-to Jesus-moment is just due to the only thing a beancounter understands - Apple is no longer a growth company. They simply can't afford to disdainfully ignore a whole swath of the younger (and partly older) generations, whose interest in (real and immersive) gaming will influence their choice of computer platform.

I would assume that a very small portion of AAA gamers are even remotely tempted to spend AAA money on a mobile port. You play these games for the immersion, rather than just a quick time-killing session when taking a break or waiting for the bus. Personally, I'd rather have my teeth pulled out than playing a major AAA title on a phone.

The screen is comparatively tiny, which not only wastes a lot of the graphical appeal, it also makes visual ques much harder to notice. Perhaps even more damning, the interactions of the original games were designed for either a console controller or mouse and keyboard. It's not unusual to have 15 or more keybinds. Squeezing that kind of complex control scheme, which you ideally want to master in a flow state, onto a smallish touch screen often results in a very unsatisfactory experience.

Believeing that porting pricy and dated AAA consaole/PC games to iPhones, or even iPads, would be a successful strategy, just reveals a deep ignorance of hardcore gamer preferences.

That simply can't be true. I can't imagine Apple launching such an utterly asinine product. The only thing that will fold is this project - if it even exists.

Tim Cook is a bean counter who seems to really dislike AAA games, while favoring Apple Arcade fluff. A whole generation of gamer kids have been lost for Apple due to his deliberate choice to snub AAA game developers.