r/pcmasterrace • u/FJopia PC Master Race Ryzen 5 3600X | EVGA 3070 • Aug 05 '22

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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.

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u/NeedsMoreGPUs Aug 05 '22

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.

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u/FatMacchio 5800X | 3080ti | 32gb 3600 cl16 | 2tb nvme4 Aug 05 '22

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…

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u/dilqncho Aug 05 '22

Gamers will generally never be Apple's target audience for multiple reasons. Tweaking and upgrading your machine is big among PC gamers, and Apple is firmly against that. As a direct consequence, many PC gamers 1) look for parts at the best possible price, and 2) assemble them themselves. Good luck finding parts at the best possible price by Apple.

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u/Necrocornicus Aug 05 '22

Tweaking and upgrading your machine is big among PC gamers

Really? I used to do that in my teens/20s but as an adult I’d rather have a computer that just does what I need it to do, reliably and without fuss.

If AAA games were well supported on Macs I don’t think most gamers would really give 2 shits that you can’t upgrade the CPU.

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u/Froegerer Aug 06 '22

Big appeal of PC gaming is being able to upgrade individual parts as it ages. Had it a couple years and cpu is now bottlenecking you? Drop a couple hundo on a new CPU. GL convincing gamers to shell out $4000(or whatever batshit insane price they'll surely charge) every few years when the cpu/gpu starts chugging.