Apple continues to talk up gaming on Macs, iPhones and iPads in new interview

[Redaktion]

Apple is continuing to promote its Mac, iPhone and iPad platforms as viable gaming alternatives to both devs and AAA gamers. In a new interview, the company has highlighted what it has done to lay the groundwork to make Apple devices more attractive for gaming along with what the company thinks give it some unique advantages.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-continues-to-talk-up-gaming-on-Macs-iPhones-and-iPads-in-new-interview.787978.0.html

[RobertJasiek]

Not too bad (the PR campaign, that is).

[A]

Not too bad (the PR campaign, that is).

9 native titles including BG3 and ACM in less than a year after Apple mentioned AAA gaming at all isn't convincing?

[Nope]

9 titles vs over 80+ on pc on a hostile hardware ecosystem that actively prevents you from upgrading and had to be federally mandated to allow you the right to repair it.  Hard pass.

[IMO]

Not too bad (the PR campaign, that is).

9 native titles including BG3 and ACM in less than a year after Apple mentioned AAA gaming at all isn't convincing?

The best way to convince in my opinion would be to to reduce cost of their hardware. If they had a much bigger install base due to more hardware sales, dev's would kind of be forced to publish for the platform. And not financially incentivizing a few studios to port their games (possibly what might of happened here). It also doesn't help that the only mac's really capable of a good experience (capable of going through all the overhead of a bad port), is the M3 Max which is like in $5000+ mac's.

[Neenyah]

You get an M3 MacBook to run Apple-native games (like Resident Evil Village and 4) with worse performance than you run it at ROG Ally at 3x lower price. Not bad. Revolutionising gaming 😂

Edit:

New titles on the Mac, iPhone and/or iPad include Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 4, Lies of P, No Man's Sky, Baldur's Gate 3, Grid Legends, and Strays with other titles like Assassin's Creed Mirage and Death Stranding among others coming soon.

Stray, singular. Not Strays.

[A]

You get an M3 MacBook to run Apple-native games(like Resident Evil Village and 4) with worse performance than you run it at ROG Ally at 3x lower price

Well you couldn't run it at all before. Of course if you are a gamer your hands are tied by nVidia addiction.
But if you got Mac for work - now you can game from time to time, with satisfying performance, somewhere around 4070 mobile. No one is saying it's a hardcore gaming laptop.

[George]

While there are at least ONE (if not a few) Game engines that can output both mobile (Arm) and PC (IA) there are not all that many examples of developers doing it.

Sure, a game developed to run on Arm may also run on tablet & laptop along with a phone.

Of course there's the games that can run on at least two of the major consoles that can also run on desktops, laptops, tablets/convertables and the growing market of gaming handheld systems.

Gee - what are YOU going to develop for? LOL!!!

While Apple hardware was the first to embrace 'Thunderbolt', a Mac user can't take just any eGPU enclosure with just any GPU (needs to be AMD) and then can supercharge their graphics as long as they have a older IA powered device.

Frankly, I'm thinking Apple is having a hard enough time getting developers (non-game included here) to develop for their Tablets let alone for their M* powered laptops.

Outside of generally high DPI on their screens just about everything else about Apple hardware when it comes to Gaming is rather lame.