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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-...

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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).

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.

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