I understand your perspective, but the way I see it, it's like renting a movie at home versus seeing it in a theater. For some people, the extra money to go to a theater is worth it. I'm not paying $20+ to see a movie once at home though, and especially not to see it on my phone. Discounted price for a discounted experience. If they want to charge $20 for the mobile version, and $40 for MacOS, then I'd be way more likely to try a triple-A game on a phone.

Yeah honestly the idea that a port should cost less because it's a worse experience is stupid. As long as effort was put in and the game is still playable and as enjoyable an experience as other platforms whoever made it has any right to charge what they see fit for that platform.

Now should people buy it? Probably not and if it doesn't run as well you can absolutely raise the argument of it was a pointless cash grab anyways but...

Being upset that a developer wants to get paid for a game no matter what platform they put it on... not a big deal

Yeah, the confusion by everyone around this pricing is really counterintuitive.
The product is exactly the same as its console / PC counterpart.
How well it runs on Apple products remains to be seen.
I for sure would not opt for it since I have a high end gaming PC.
Also, especially considering how Apple pulls products from their stores w/o refund…

I do hope that this sells somewhat well and opens the door for more developers to release their games on iOS / Mac.
I still think that Apple could build a proper gaming rig / console, but are in the chicken / egg situation still.

That's pretty good. Play anywhere across an ecosystem is always the right move. Sony expecting people to double dip on PS5/PC releases is going to look pretty old pretty soon.

It will be funny if they manage to implement microtransactions in some way.

Pippin 2!

Which is good for competition. Still ridiculous price though for mobile.

I mean isn’t RE4 VR coming soon? Great candidate for the Apple VR headset (that I have seen no one irl have)

If you're in the eco-system, the idea that you can play a game on your phone, pick it up on the TV at home, then at your deck on the Mac at the weekend is pretty sweet. I can't see them making a high end console though, those tend to be money syncs and are going to have smaller audiences as mobile & cloud grow acceptable performance for the mass market. This is why MS are making moves they are. They'll support the home console for a while as they can't lose the legacy Xbox audience, but I think sometime next decade they may make Gamepass/Xbox store a multiformat service and phase out dedicated hardware.

Because it's still a mobile game and there's no way it's a great experience trying to play it on such a small screen.

I honestly don't understand the smartphone gaming fad because of the screen size issue. Who actually plays games like this on their phone that wouldn't rather buy a dedicated steam deck or other device?

Good freaking luck getting people to pay full price for a console game on a phone

I'm not disagreeing with you by saying this, but I can imagine Apple sweetening the prospect by adding an AppleTV "Pro" to the ecosystem that will play intensive iPhone games like this with controller support. Tack-on MacOS playability as well and 1 purchase could mean you can play your save no matter where you are, across any platform within the ecosystem. Again, not saying this will happen. Just imagining how it could go.