My knee jerk reaction is to be disappointed by this, but I had an NES emulator on my first gen jailbroken iPhone back in 2007 or 2008. It was cool for a few days, but ultimately, I didn’t use it.
And if you're going to the effort of using a separate controller, you might as well use a separate gaming device.
Makes for a pretty solid gaming* handheld, with a design that is similar to the Switch, Steam Deck, etc.
*(if you can find mobile games without awful monetization schemes)
We're talking about Apple devices here...
Starting prices of the normal phones:
iPhone 15 - $799
iPhone 15+ - $899
Samsung S24 - $859
Samsung S24+ - $999
Mmhm, I used to have a PDA [1] which had four hardware buttons below the screen and a D-pad, and that was rather nifty for that kind of games.
[1] Asus MyPal A620 – it came as part of a car navigation system which was gifted to us by some relatives. We never used the navigation part much, but because the whole thing was based on a regular Windows Mobile PDA which could run any software available, I appropriated it for myself :-)