Death Stranding Directors cut coming to the Mac App store (so I guess no Steam version)...
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Major gaming news at WWDC: Metal and New games
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"This is just the beginning. We are actively working to bring our future titles to Apple platforms."
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Are there any pictures of the upcoming games they showed quickly? I saw Snowrunner and Stray on it, just curious if there was something else hiding on it.
No new games besides Death Stranding, just those we already know. Was hoping to see RE 4.
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I am curious about the Porting Kit. Looking forward to @leman take on it...
I kind of doubt I’ll be able to provide much commentary here, no industry experience…
But I’m curious to see the new API documentation…
Hardly. They did a lot of great work every single year since Apple Silicon was announced.
Just like it takes 3 or more years to develope a game. They had to build a user base and now after three years Apple Silicon has 56% share of Mac gamers on Steam. So let the game begin!
I remember. But, don’t forget that it’s not real until it’s announced. 😊
It’s weird that there’s no mention of Unreal at all.
And the price of the Vision Pro? $3499! It looks like they didn’t go the non-profit route for pricing, nor did they call it a developer kit.
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"To make it easier to port games from other platforms to Mac, Metal introduces a new game porting toolkit, eliminating months of upfront work and enabling developers to see how well their existing game could run on Mac in just a few days. It also dramatically simplifies the process of converting the game’s shaders and graphics code to take full advantage of Apple silicon performance, significantly reducing the total development time."
"macOS Sonoma also introduces Game Mode, giving players an edge when performance is measured in precious milliseconds. Game Mode delivers an optimized gaming experience with smoother and more consistent frame rates, by ensuring games get the highest priority on the CPU and GPU. Game Mode also makes gaming on Mac even more immersive — dramatically lowering audio latency with AirPods, and significantly reducing input latency with popular game controllers like those for Xbox and PlayStation by doubling the Bluetooth sampling rate. Game Mode works with any game, including all of the recent and upcoming Mac games."
"To make it easier to port games from other platforms to Mac, Metal introduces a new game porting toolkit, eliminating months of upfront work and enabling developers to see how well their existing game could run on Mac in just a few days. It also dramatically simplifies the process of converting the game’s shaders and graphics code to take full advantage of Apple silicon performance, significantly reducing the total development time."
"macOS Sonoma also introduces Game Mode, giving players an edge when performance is measured in precious milliseconds. Game Mode delivers an optimized gaming experience with smoother and more consistent frame rates, by ensuring games get the highest priority on the CPU and GPU. Game Mode also makes gaming on Mac even more immersive — dramatically lowering audio latency with AirPods, and significantly reducing input latency with popular game controllers like those for Xbox and PlayStation by doubling the Bluetooth sampling rate. Game Mode works with any game, including all of the recent and upcoming Mac games."
Ya'll think Death Stranding is using the toolkit for porting?
Game Mode is curious and it will be interesting to see how it works, since it apparently doesn't need developer input to take advantage of.
Though I'll admit I hate the smoother word choice since frame time consistency and smoothness are the same dang thing. Is Apple claiming that their Game Mode can get rid of the annoying UE stutter?
What if "Game Mode" is a CPU/GPU overclocking feature, not by the user but by the system? We know that Apple usually underclocks Macs to be cool and silent but on desktops Macs like Mac Studio with huge cooling fans and always remaining at around 50 degrees C even in games you have a large headroom to the temperatures we've seen on laptops, up to 105 degrees C. That would be a nice feature to boost performance where it's possible.