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I could see a use case of iPhone-as-console though, so hooking it up to a tv and using a Bluetooth controller (they work well). If there’s little to no lag, we’re at a stage where a phone could be Switch-like.
Isn’t an iPhone way more powerful than a switch too
Yes, but the lack of active cooling kills any chance it has at being a proper gaming device. If Apple made a switch clone, used an M3 Pro and had a good cooling system, it would almost certainly be better than the AMD Z1 Extreme handhelds.
But it would also be much more expensive, and there are a lot fewer games that would run on it, and it would effectively be DoA. Maybe Apple is trying to work towards that future, but it isn’t happening any time soon.