Why would they? They're way more interested in renting games to you on their "arcade" service.
No, not illegally. Just how business is done. And, like many times before (maybe THIS is the primary reason why Apple is so successful), when a roadblock is presented to them, they make the hard decision to “make their own”. That phrase comes up a lot when talking about the recent trials “If companies don’t like it, they should make their own”. I mean, it’s simple sense. Companies that don’t do it end up stuck in a dead end unable to drive their destiny and start looking for ANY OTHER SOLUTION other than “make your own”. Apple did it with phones, they did it with Google maps, they did it with Apple Silicon. NOTHING is preventing any other company from taking this path, but few have the “courage” to take big risks even when the rewards could be enormous.
I’ve found in these forums, the intensifier “serious” usually means “not on an Apple device”. For example:
. This Mac owner also owns a ps5 and series XI hope Apple doesn’t tout the compute capabilities of their future GPU’s. They’re going to be hard enough to get because of the chip shortage without scalpers trying to jump in line!
As someone who uses CUDA I can say another option is to move beyond a technology tied to a specific type of GPU. This isn't really an Intel or NVIDIA issue but Apple not officially supporting NVIDIA hopefully moves developers to other options: OpenCL, OpenGL, TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.
Apple Arcade provides an incentive to developers to create games and, based on customer engagement, they get paid. If someone like me plays Clap Hans golf daily, then the developer is getting money without having to beg me for IAPs. I have no idea how much it is, but I wouldn’t be surprised if, after testing this with smaller developers, they extend it to the larger ones. Most of them will likely not want to give up the IAP cash and “Seasons” money, but there’s likely some that wouldn’t mind pulling in money and all they have to do is release bug fixes regularly.
Why not move to Angband or Umoria? Sure, they might not be an exact recreation of your VAX but they will run on what you have.
Exactly. Intel is going to niche applications upmarket because they are losing the middle computing market.Intel is in full damage control
In any case, if you want games Windows or Xbox/Playstation is where it's at, I don't play games on my Mac, that's for productivity
If only I could play Trails in the Sky 1-3 on Mac. That would be WONDERFUL. Even the Macbook Air would have MORE than enough performance for it, its a Direct X 8 title that was ported to Direct X 9. This is all I am using my Windows PC for these days. My 2020 desktop with an older GPU is overkill for these games, and I would prefer to play it on my Mac.
What does game availability on an OS have anything to do with how well a game performs on your processor?In a press call with Intel's chief performance strategist Ryan Shrout about the new chips, Intel outlined an argument claiming that it is the supposedly poor gaming experience on Mac devices that makes Intel-based Windows devices superior. Intel derided Apple's M1 chip and boasted that most popular video games do not run on macOS.
The company highlighted a poor gaming experience on the Mac when using an emulator or virtual machine, showing a video of the game "Valheim" running poorly in Parallels on a Mac.
I like to see Apple invest into some gaming companies so we could have some representation in this part of the computer industry. Sophisticated games make wonderful demos for illustration of the how fast Apple Silicon technology is.
Practically, as soon as you get out of your basement, Apple wins.
