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The goalposts haven't moved. Where are the games? Macs will game when macs can game. The gaming industry has chosen the APIs they are willing to support. When Apple meets them there then macs will be able to game.


> The gaming industry has chosen the APIs they are willing to support.

The gaming industry will go where the money is.

The majority of the industry revenue is now on mobile and the lions share of mobile revenue is on iOS and Metal.

I think Apple Silicon Macs will end up benefiting from studios having experience with Metal on iOS in the same way that XBox benefited from studios having experience with Direct3D on Windows.


> Where are the games?

You have…

- App Store (OSX and many IOS)

- Steam

- Epic Store

- Blizzard Store

- Crossover and Parallels to do some windows games.

- Mame and it’s like exist.

- You even have free games on GitHub.

If you can’t find the games the issue isn’t with the Mac.




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