TechCrunch:
The launch of Fortnite, especially, resonates across the larger gaming spectrum in several unique ways. It’s the full and complete game as present on consoles, it’s iOS-first and it supports cross-platform play with console and PC players.
In addition, there are some technical advantages that keep Apple ahead of Android in this arena. Plenty of Android devices are very performant and capable in individual ways, but Apple has a deep holistic grasp of its hardware that allows it to push platform advantages in introducing new frameworks like ARKit.
Those of us old enough to remember the bad old days know that Apple had a reputation at times for not being very “gamer friendly”, whether it was towards gamers themselves or game developers. Steve Jobs was famously apathetic and dismissive of the Mac as a gaming platform. But the iPhone has changed all of that.
Even earlier, the Apple ][e was known as a gaming machine.
The last PC game I played was Quake. When my kid was born I just couldn’t justify spending serious cash and hours at a time playing games. These days I can drop a few bucks and jump right into a game like Alto’s Odyssey or Lara Croft Go for 10 minutes at a time if I want. It’s a great platform for a casual gamer like me.
Typo: “Thos”
I am old enough to remember this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzrme9yWens. But this did not play out so well for Apple
“Let’s play an FPS on iOS with touch controls, it will be totally awesome and good”, said no sane person ever in the history of mankind.
DOH! Fixed now. Thanks!