After testing Sea of Thieves, Skyrim, and Dark Souls III on my M1 Air, I now have hope for mobile gaming on the M1X macbook pros.

[4743913]

Sea of Thieves, Skyrim, and Dark Souls III seem to show us on the right track. Occasional lag and frames per sec drops but all three are more than playable on a base M1 Air. I have hope for the future now on the M1x Macbook Pros for mobile gaming. While I would prefer Boot Camp, we will just have to play the hand dealt to us. I do not really want to tote a pc notebook.

 

[l0stl0rd]

It would be nice if they bring back bootcamp for Windows 11 ARM but I am not getting my hopes up.

 

[EPO75]

It would be nice if they bring back bootcamp for Windows 11 ARM but I am not getting my hopes up.

I dont want bootcamp nor Windows, just native gaming which with gpu hardware coming should be possible.

 

[dukebound85]

I dont want bootcamp nor Windows, just native gaming which with gpu hardware coming should be possible.

there are more benefits to bootcamp than just.....gaming

 

[EPO75]

there are more benefits to bootcamp than just.....gaming

I see none really, let developers make native M1 stuff instead of letting you use bootcamp and windows And make then lazy.

 

[dukebound85]

I see none really, let developers make native M1 stuff instead of letting you use bootcamp and windows And make then lazy.

because you see none is irrelevant to be honest

Many engineering programs for example have not and most likely will not offer mac versions

This is not just engineering, but a wide variety of fields

Would I rather it be native, of course. But this has not happened and I don't expect it to be

 

[EPO75]

because you see none is irrelevant to be honest

Many engineering programs for example have not and most likely will not offer mac versions

This is not just engineering, but a wide variety of fields

Would I rather it be native, of course. But this has not happened and I don't expect it to be

Then its legacy, nonsense to make a bootcamp for that crap. Besides there is Parallels already for that kind of stuff.

 

[dukebound85]

Then its legacy, nonsense to make a bootcamp for that crap. Besides there is Parallels already for that kind of stuff.

And I would disagree

Parallels is not an ideal solution compared to Bootcamp.

I don't expect Apple to have bootcamp for M1 though unless windows moves to arm

However, there is a huge benefit to being able to run other OS's natively. I don't know why anyone would be against that capability

 

[4743913]

I dont want bootcamp nor Windows, just native gaming which with gpu hardware coming should be possible.

you are being naive.. its not going to happen.

 

[LeeW]

The M1 has without doubt shown what is possible, the M1X should progress that leaps and bounds. Will we see software houses that traditionally stick with PC coming to Mac? Doubt it, not any time soon.

In other discussions, I keep seeing the 100m+ mac users and that being big enough numbers to encourage development going forward. But, it's not.

M1 has not been around that long, very few of the 100m+ are on M1. We are unlikely to see sufficient numbers for many years that will make developers show enough interest to make it financially appealing.

That aside Mac has never been seen as a gaming platform. Unlikely the vast majority of existing users would be that interested because it was never a consideration when purchasing a Mac. Of course, there will be those who are, just not enough to push Macs into gaming-relevant devices.

The best hope in the short term is Bootcamp coming back, very unlikely.

 

[TopherMan12]

The M1 has without doubt shown what is possible, the M1X should progress that leaps and bounds. Will we see software houses that traditionally stick with PC coming to Mac? Doubt it, not any time soon.

In other discussions, I keep seeing the 100m+ mac users and that being big enough numbers to encourage development going forward. But, it's not.

M1 has not been around that long, very few of the 100m+ are on M1. We are unlikely to see sufficient numbers for many years that will make developers show enough interest to make it financially appealing.

That aside Mac has never been seen as a gaming platform. Unlikely the vast majority of existing users would be that interested because it was never a consideration when purchasing a Mac. Of course, there will be those who are, just not enough to push Macs into gaming-relevant devices.

The best hope in the short term is Bootcamp coming back, very unlikely.

I think 100 million gamers would be plenty big enough for game devs to take notice. The problem is we are not talking about 100 million gamers, just users. I think it is safe to say the number of gamers on Mac are much fewer than that.

So I doubt M1 is going to change anything as far as gaming is concerned on Mac. Even if Bootcamp returns (agree, unlikely) most games on Windows are developed for x86 and would still need a port. Maybe streaming will make this a moot point one day? I'll just keep gaming on Windows and consoles. Just better gaming on those platforms in any case.

 

[LeeW]

Maybe streaming will make this a moot point one day?

Indeed, I had thought this may be an option. I used Nvidia Now for a while on Mac, worked quite well. I have a PC anyway so to save me switching I just turn on the PC and steam then stream everything from the PC direct to the Mac, better performance, less lag. It's a solution, not for everyone