Yeah.... I a not much of an AAA gamer, but love Flight Simming, whicg requires a lot of CPU / grfx horsepower.Do as this nearly everything Apple guy did and re-embrace PC for purposes like this. I bought one for "old fashioned bootcamp" (to pair with a Silicon Mac) and realized typical Apple computer money could buy a fairly loaded PC. It is my first PC in > 10 years but I have full Windows (not Windows ARM), a robust graphics card and access to pretty much all such AAA games instead of wishing they were available for Mac. It's great to have access to any software and the easy ability to pick & choose based on what runs best on which platform... or what is even available on which platform.
This is THE way to the best-rated games in 2023. They won't come to Mac until Apple puts sizable budget towards getting them much as the existing players put sizable budget towards getting AAA games for their own platforms. Gamemakers are motivated by CASH, not hype & spin about Silicon supremacy or even if Apple rolled out a M20 extreme ultra++ super AI hybrid SOC Mach 7. Money talks... LOUDLY.
I adore X-Plane 11 and 12, and to be able to play those well, you need a high-end Mac (M1 Max is really required for very good performance) which I have and love it.
But.... but.... bare with me on this: so X-Plane 12 is Apple Silicon Native. YAY for that! Performance on my Mac Studio Max is great! Love it!
But, 3rd party planes and sceneries or utilities do rely sometimes on making use of "Intel-based" plugins for macOS. If you want to use those... and yeah... you would really... you need to run X-Plane 12 in Rosetta mode. Performance hit is quite large, especially in CPU limited sceneries.
X-Plane 12 "preview" was launched in September 2022. The "final game" launched in December.
In that period the number of Apple Silicon native plugins etc. did rise but kinda stalled for now... so, for me personally, 2 major plugins are still not AS native.
I love my Mac, I even defend gaming on this Mac. I do not want to buy a PC next to my Mac... but I do sometimes envy those simmers who use a fast PC with high-end grfx card... no issues with "non native stuff", and oh yes.... they get VR.