I’ll tell you that as a hardcore iOS gamer, nothing has been as big of a disappointment to me as the whole MFi controller ecosystem. For years we wished that Apple would officially support controllers for iOS games, but once they finally did it was an extremely mixed back. We covered just why that was shortly after the first batch of MFi controllers came to market in late 2013, but let me quickly summarize. The “standard" and “extended" versions of MFi controllers needlessly split support and created confusion for developers on which one to use, it should have just been the extended version all along. Build quality of those early MFi controllers was also on the low end, but prices were on the extremely high end, especially compared to actual 1st party offerings from console manufacturers. Here we are nearly 5 years later and although prices have come down a bit, there still hasn’t really been a controller that’s felt super premium and durable for the price. Finally, since Apple never made any effort to denote which games in the App Store supported MFi controllers, it’s been difficult for players to actually FIND the games that they can play with the controller they bought.
The whole thing has just been kind of a mess from the beginning and, much like Apple’s foray into making the Apple TV a gaming console, just felt like a mountain of squandered potential. The Nintendo Switch has been absolutely killing it for a year and ...