Epic Games is looking to capture the mobile gaming audience with plans to bring the Epic Games Store to Android and iOS. In an interview during GameSpot's Play For All, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney talked about this plan to bring its app store to mobile.
"We'd like to bring the [Epic Games] Store to iOS in the future, and we will bring it to Android," Sweeney said. "We think it's a good way to help the industry [move] forward and it's another way where Epic as a game developer had built up this audience around Fortnite and learned how to operate a distribution platform on PC and Android. Now, as we've done with many things from the Unreal Engine to the Epic Online services, we open it up to all other developers to use with their games and are trying to serve the industry and provide a really interesting alternative to the ecosystem."
The developer has been at odds with Google, objecting to its 30% "store tax," which Google levies on paid apps. Sweeney reasons that the company is okay with Apple having something similar because of its innovations and security measures on its App Store, which is a controversial subject when it comes to Android.
Epic Games eventually conceded and brought its popular title, Fortnite, to the Play Store. But with this new plan, it looks like it will be going up against Google again.
Google-certified Android is more relaxed when it comes to using third-party stores. But we're not sure closed-off Apple will allow for this to happen.