Whenever I think of mobile gaming, my mind immediately goes to those fake advertisements you see on every platform that just wind up being a rehash of Candy Crush, but with a PNG of said advertisement tacked on the side. That, and a whole lot of additional ads that play every time you want to do something in the game, which, of course, is only available to those who pay the countless microtransactions.But it seems huge things have been happening on the side. Great things, actually. Remedy's Control: Ultimate Edition has been ported over to the iPhone and iPad. At just $4.99, this version offers you the entire game for literal peanuts and actually performs so amazingly well that it'd be hard to tell it apart from its mainline edition. It runs at a stable FPS, has very smooth performance, and can even support ray tracing—all of that on a phone. Of course, a lot of the graphical options have been knocked down, but it is still beyond impressive to see a AAA game run on mobile and so well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_WqrK0os3AOf course, not every iPhone supports the game. You'll need an iPhone 15 Pro or better to be able to run it, and I'm fairly certain some phones in that range will struggle a bit with the game. At any rate, the Pro versions certainly seem to be handling it without a hitch, heralding a new age of mobile gaming. The iPhone has been quite innovative when it comes to internal hardware. Apple silicon has proven more than once that it is incredibly capable of high performance, with numerous publishers making use of the iPhone chip to release their own AAA titles, such as Resident Evil: Village, Death Stranding, and Hitman, among others. If this trend continues, we could eventually start seeing iPhones marketed as a main platform, standing shoulder to shoulder with the likes of PlayStation, Xbox, and, of course, PC, though that time could be a bit off in the future due to accessibility reasons.Still, I'm just shocked at how far we've come in terms of mobile gaming. My brain is hardwired to think of that side of games as merely 2D block-stacking apps that we used to have during the pre-touch era, or at the very least, the type of rudimentary running games like Temple Run. Seeing a major title perform so well while maintaining impeccable graphical fidelity is wild to me, and I'm wholeheartedly excited to see more of it.And, perhaps, to see it come to Android as well. Oh, and you should also know that Control: Ultimate Edition is also $5 on Steam right now, because I wager that's probably your platform of choice. For now. The post Control got ported to iPhone, and it’s so good I think it heralds a new era of mobile gaming appeared first on Destructoid.