I just play it on my Switch.
Skyrim on Mac When?
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#12Their engine barely runs on windows, expecting it to run at all on mac is a reach.
For reference, they’ve been patching up the same homebrew game engine for decades.
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#13The whole OpenGL versus Metal situation doesn’t help in porting games to macOS. Also, Crossover ports no longer work. Getting a nice console has been my solution for gaming.
That's what I do, got a PS5 direct from Sony and am playing Skyrim on there now with a M1 Mini for compute.
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#14The potential user base for skyrim on macOS is much lower because there simply isn't a large user base of gamers on Mac platforms.
Mac users of Steam represent 2.45% of the total user base in the following survey: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
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Use a framework like Bootstrap or Bulma, your website will look ten times better with no effort. But cool project!
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#16The potential user base for skyrim on macOS is much lower because there simply isn't a large user base of gamers on Mac platforms. Mac users of Steam represent 2.45% of the total user base in the following survey: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
That's a circular argument. No content or support is the reason there are very few Mac gamers.
There are an awful lot of people out there who have a Mac and play games on other platforms and devices. Probably even people who bought a pc just to be able to play games on it.
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#17The potential user base for skyrim on macOS is much lower because there simply isn't a large user base of gamers on Mac platforms. Mac users of Steam represent 2.45% of the total user base in the following survey: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
I think the metric is only supposed to represent the absolute maximum possible users. Otherwise one could also say that many people only use their PlayStations to play FPS’s or that a large portion of Switch users are children that wouldn’t purchase Skyrim etc etc.
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#18'Skyrim VR' potential user base links to an article on smart speakers. I also think it is very unlikely that there are 200M VR devices out there, but only 90M macs.
Good catch, fixed
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#19The potential user base for skyrim on macOS is much lower because there simply isn't a large user base of gamers on Mac platforms. Mac users of Steam represent 2.45% of the total user base in the following survey: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
Bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy though, isn't it? If there aren't enough games, there won't be enough gamers. I would like to be able to use my mac as a gaming platform but the games I want to play there simply don't work on it, so I mostly use a console and have no incentive to build up a game library on it.
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#20The potential user base for skyrim on macOS is much lower because there simply isn't a large user base of gamers on Mac platforms. Mac users of Steam represent 2.45% of the total user base in the following survey: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
I wonder if that went down after macOS Catalina, where Apple removed 32-bit x86 app support and nearly every game in the Steam catalog available for the Mac became unplayable overnight. That’s when I decided to give up and build a gaming PC. Maybe others came to the same conclusion.