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The Impossible Port: MacOS

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Re: The Impossible Port: MacOS

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Are people who own M1 Macs actually interested in playing games though? You'd think they would buy something more suitable for the job if they were.

Quite a sizeable crowd, actually. The M1 series is quite fine for gaming, it just requires vendors/authors producing for it.

Re: The Impossible Port: MacOS

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Are people who own M1 Macs actually interested in playing games though? You'd think they would buy something more suitable for the job if they were.

M1 Macs are cool and videogames are cool. I have bought exactly one game specifically because of Mac compatibility, so I doubt I'm the target demographic.

Re: The Impossible Port: MacOS

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Are people who own M1 Macs actually interested in playing games though? You'd think they would buy something more suitable for the job if they were.

Quite a sizeable crowd, actually. The M1 series is quite fine for gaming, it just requires vendors/authors producing for it.

A platform that nobody develops for isn't really a good platform for gaming. And I don't see why developers would bother when Apple is just going to break compatibility for their games in a few years unless they keep updating it.

Re: The Impossible Port: MacOS

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Are people who own M1 Macs actually interested in playing games though? You'd think they would buy something more suitable for the job if they were.

I am. I have no interest in getting a Windows PC just for gaming, so I make do with what's available (for the games that are not better played on my Switch anyway, it really is the ideal gaming device for me).

Sometimes it's a struggle to get it working, but the payoff of being able to play my strategy game or whatever on my same old laptop on the couch is well worth it to me.

Plus, sometime I'm amazed how well the games then run on battery and with only little fan noise at worst, despite Rosetta. Just yesterday I played XCOM2 at maxed out graphics settings for hours. (Partly because the DLC I played isn't on the Switch, and partly because I wanted to see what the game was like at full graphics.)

Re: The Impossible Port: MacOS

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Are people who own M1 Macs actually interested in playing games though? You'd think they would buy something more suitable for the job if they were.

Nobody is buying them for the explicit purpose of playing games, but that doesn’t mean people who own them aren’t interested in games.

I’m sure there’s a lot of Mac owners who play games on PCs or consoles.

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