I think this is the secret sauce of the Steam Deck: cutting out Microsoft libraries as a requirement through API emulation. That probably offers the best *technical* path to porting to Mac. But it still needs the killer example on Mac to show the world how it's done.
or buy patched Switch and play what ever you want... Tried Ryujinx on my M1, it was running so so, for example Mario Odyssey, but I said f*** it and purchased OLED Switch + mod chip...
With reason, Apple will change direction for the stupidest reasons, with no warnings, and will absolutely abandon its developers, even big ones.
Apple's play here is that it sounded good in the Keynote. They probably did not think beyond the after party.
The main reason why any software exists on any platform comes down to a developer/publisher answering the question, for themselves, “How many units could I potentially sell on that platform?” They want to know their potential ROI. Doesn’t matter if it’s a creative app, education app, an office app or a game app. This even takes into account all of those that have NO system currently (aren’t locked into anything) but, over the lifetime of the app, have the potential to buy it IF it’s available on that user’s system of choice. Developers don’t release apps for multiple platforms because they expect folks to buy it on multiple platforms, they do it because they’ve calculated that it’s worth the effort to “be available”.
Yup. People that are serious about gaming are not buying a Mac to do it. Period. It's a gaming PC, Xbox, or Playstation.
In some ways the cultures of the two companies could get along well. They're both very isolated companies that prefer to create original products rather than so much as glance at what their competition is doing. It leads to them sometimes being difficult to work with.
I’m not referring to phones. If there exists hundreds of millions of systems that matches a developer’s targeted performance specifications, regardless of what system it is, developers will figure out how to create something to make money off it. If Apple continues to sell the Mac, eventually there will be hundreds of millions of Apple Silicon Macs out there. Some companies with bigger bags of cash are the first movers to see if there’s value in the effort. Their games won’t drive purchase of Macs in any significant way, but if they see an appreciable return over time, they’ll continue to release games on macOS.
Given the management issues that have surfaced with Blizzard, maybe Apple dodged a bullet there.
Those issues were from Activision, not Blizzard. Apple should have bought Blizzard before the Activision merger.
GPU to run it AT ALL? Or is that just another over the top statement? Because if you need even a 6900xt to even run it at 720p at 30 fps then it’s more of a game issue than an Apple issue. My GTX 1080 can still play newer games reasonably well for its age. Just don’t expect ultra quality and you will be fine with the Mac’s GPU.
The only RT game I have right now that brings my 4090 to its knees is CP2077 Phantom Liberty in max settings. You have to turn on FSR to make it playable. I’m getting 130-140 fps on 1440p on Phantom.
This can’t always be true. If it is, we would end up in a situation where we have an A21 in an iPhone but only an M5 based off the A18. Not gonna always follow this formula. Different chips and different cadences.
