Thread 718077196

Will mac gaming ever catch on?

>>718077196 (OP)
does candy crush count as gaming? that's the most mac gaming there will be

>>718077196 (OP)
your best chance is for noVidio to release their ARM APU's so that people move to Vulkan and ARM and get away from DirectX.
but I'm also pretty sure Apple's ARM uses some weird graphical pipelines too, so maybe not even then.

>>718077196 (OP)
They already won by not participating.

>>718077196 (OP)
If they haven’t figured out how to be an attractive platform for video games in 40 years I don’t think they’re gonna start anytime soon

people still use Mac?

They stopped trying since they already won in a sense. Mobile is a majority of the casual gaming market.

>>718077671
Almost everyone, yeah.

Applefags deserve to be killed.

>>718078226
-t. doctor

>>718078226
the hardware is good though
still woudlnt be an iToddler

>Pseudo Linux
>Now an ARM platform
>Perfectly teed up for gaming and getting in bed with Steam
>Still fucking around
FUCK YOU TIM APPLE

>>718077196 (OP)
No, but it is gaining traction thanks to valve and their linux efforts

>>718078493
It's good if you believe marketing department.

Mac has decent potential, Windows is going down the shitter and linux is still dogshit to use. Its just that non-mobile gaming is not a priority for apple at all.

The fact that most shit runs best on an old version of Mac where I can't even remember the name and now it is M4 or some shit and tons of incompatibility issuse have occured leads to the conclusion that they fucked up the exact same way that Windows fucked up with Win7 being the best for many things but then being cut off and incompatible with current OS shit.

>>718077671
i've had the same used macbook pro for like 14 years

>>718078493
>iToddler
it's like 2010 never ended
do you still argue about smartphones too?

>>718077196 (OP)
>get GeForce Now
>Mac gay ming Just Werks
you're welcome

>>718078160
>almost everyone
It's a minority of the desktops in the USA
Everywhere else they're almost non-existent

>>718078493
Yes, the Apple Silicon chips are fast and tons of unified memory is nice
That does not matter because using them means having to deal with macOS and it's total lack of vidya and software and general homosexuality

>>718077196 (OP)
Lol no

>>718077196 (OP)
Any day now, Gus

>>718078632
What makes ARM special?

>>718081284
It's fast and efficient, drawing a lot less power for the same performance
Yeah, that's all, there are no other benefits
Since it's not compatible with most things, it will probably not be widely adopted until x86 emulators reach black magic-tier

>>718081284
It has better phonefag compatibility; so, lazy ass devs can port their slop easier.

>>718079532
as an oldfag bordeline 50 yo, yes i do

>>718079532
>do you still argue about smartphones too?
>TFW everything is such homogenized slop there is no point any longer

>Mac silicon version of game releases
>It's on the fucking Apple Store
Just put it on fucking Steam you pieces of shit. I ain't going to buy my library of games twice if I switch to a fuckin Mac. And just make the iPad an actual computer while you're at it.

>>718082387
Sounds pretty good, you can play your games on multiple devices.

>>718082652
Yeah I've noticed that, some insane devs do this.
I dunno what they are thinking

>>718077595
>in 40 years
You don't know shit about the history of videogames.

>>718082672
Exactly my thinking. It's just bizarre because Microsoft is busy going full retard with W11 and it's all right there in perfect alignment for Apple to take a big chunk of gaming and they're just being fags.

>>718077196 (OP)
no, they killed any chance it would ever have when they deprecated vulkan in favor of metal. they also killed almost the entire back catalogue of existing games when they dropped 32-bit application support. notarizing also fucked indie devs.
with that suite of bad decisions they spurned virtually every mac user who ever used steam, and valve themselves, which made developing hardcore games for mac a lost cause.
apple now occasionally moneyhats ports of popular games to show off their hardware, but they don't sincerely care about gaming and never will again. they want you to pay for casual mobileshit.