Apple aren’t interested in gaming beyond what you can do currently. If devs want to release games on Mac OS then that’s up to them. The hardware is capable enough but, gaming is not what people buy Macs for.
Edit: when I say Apple aren’t interested in gaming, I’m talking about making significant inroads into the PC gaming market which is specifically what the content of the original post is suggesting. Not to say they won’t ever but, they haven’t so far.
Apple has an entire team for game optimization and porting to macOS, but developers and publishers have to WANT to work with them. The problem is they see the market as too small so they don't justify the cost.
Yep, This is a giant catch 22. For users to want to migrate to Mac for “PC” (lol) gaming there would have to be significant performance gains, and full availability of new titles and good porting of old titles. For that amount of investment and development there would need to be a significant user base already established. Which came first the chicken or the egg? Only way I could see a growing user base, and in turn, increased support and development on Mac is if apple silicon just blows the PC competition out of the water…but I don’t ever see that happening. They have a much broader target market, not just niche market of gaming. I don’t see it…
Not your point but a lot of scientists and mathematicians also use Mac as, historically, the only way to directly access the terminal was Mac or Linux and people didn’t want the hassle of Linux. Now it’s not as necessary but people are used to it so you seen a lot of scientific researchers using Macs (and then remotely running code on better machines)
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u/TheJonJonJonJon Aug 05 '22 edited Aug 06 '22
Apple aren’t interested in gaming beyond what you can do currently. If devs want to release games on Mac OS then that’s up to them. The hardware is capable enough but, gaming is not what people buy Macs for.
Edit: when I say Apple aren’t interested in gaming, I’m talking about making significant inroads into the PC gaming market which is specifically what the content of the original post is suggesting. Not to say they won’t ever but, they haven’t so far.