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by sicnus 2052 days ago
All of this is useless chatter for most folks that just want a decent gaming platform. Sadly, Intel on Windows is going to be where folks go.
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No one sees Mac as a gaming platform at all. And gamers are a small subset of the user base.
However people do see iOS as a gaming market, and soon you can run those apps on a Mac (clearly limitations in interface might restrict it a little). Gaming has many segments. I play WOT on my Mac via Codeweavers emulation, and performance is 60FPS+ in my 2017 iMac in most cases, equivalent to a midrange PC. I am not sure how this will work on M1 however.
I wonder when Apple will finally ship a touchscreen Mac. It seems almost inevitable now that iOS apps will be running on MacOS.
To be fair, those gaming markets are almost completely non-overlapping on a venn diagram, and it’s not just the interface (as in user input) that drives that. It’s the form factor. Handheld touchscreen games and many platform/PC games are just drastically different in the interaction models they employ/require, and slapping a touch screen on a MacBook isn’t going to change that meaningfully without many other significant form factor considerations.
WOT was made to run on low end systems, not really that impressive. Can Valorant, Overwatch, or other triple-A content run?
I'm pretty sure gamers are not willing to see a gaming computer on Apple. And who uses Apple are not in the gaming field.
Most folks that want a decent gaming platform will buy a console, and they are much freer in their choice of processor.