Epic Games is not going to bring Fortnite to iOS in Japan as promised because of the fees imposed by Apple’s new App Store rules, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said on social media. Sweeney complained that Apple did not comply with Japan’s Mobile Software Competition Act “honestly” and instead “launched another travesty of obstruction and lawbreaking in gross disrespect to the government and people of Japan.”

Back in 2024 when the MSCA passed, Sweeney said that Epic would launch Fortnite in Japan in…

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