I browsed Apple Arcade yesterday considering where Apple are with games on the App store. The problems I observed (subjective and cursory):

1. The core line up of games presented are more like basic phone-toy games where they are based around tap and clicking at things as stimulation.
2. Contrast this to indie-games that release on PC all the time and are more broad in design than “basic toys” but embrace deeper mechanics in their respective genres and wider genre availability.
3. Very difficult to search and filter games, the categories seem jumbled and confusing. Little criteria to search eg top rated by users or curators etc
4. Fundamentally maybe touch input is a limitation meaning more tendency towards these toy-games of tap-click and games instead of external input devices?
5. It’s surprising the online gaming ie multiplayer is not stronger genre/category on these devices albeit a few exceptions eg brawl stars for example.

My daughter likes to kill time with Disney Coloring World, a freermium coloring app with a $50 yearly subscription. It’s included in Arcade.

I really wish the price of Arcade hadn’t gone up.

Downwell is amazing but you can buy it cheaper than 1 month of AA I believe

“Apple Arcade is building on its award-winning catalog”

Umm, what? lol.

Gaming on MACs everyone! wooohooo what a joke.