Playing games on your phone has always been a bit of a romantic notion. No, I’m not talking about access to popular casual titles like Candy Crush Saga or Marvel Snap, which are already readily available on all kinds of mobile devices, but rather the elusive fully-fledged big budget releases that you would expect to find on the likes of the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X. As good as a lot of the casual mobile titles are, there’s something almost magical about seeing the very latest and most graphically intensive games crammed into such a tiny form factor.
Although the concept of console to mobile video game porting hasn’t really caught the world by storm quite yet, developers have been intermittently experimenting with squeezing the biggest console games onto mobile phones since the days of the very first iPhone. In fact, this pioneering first generation Apple device, along with the later iPhone 3G and 3GS, had its own native Mobile Edition of the groundbreaking 2005 survival horror game Resident Evil 4 - an incredibly ambitious effort given the extremely limited hardware of the time.
