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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by cptskippy on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:40AM (#23613762)
I agree the game definitely did not look like it was intended to and from that perspective it looked bad.

Looking at it without context however, it demonstrated the capability of the platform to run a AAA game without developer optimization/consideration.

And it demonstrates someone could make a stylized game similar to Fortnite.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by jki275 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:49AM (#23613882)
Yeah, I would agree with that. It definitely demonstrated that gaming is possible even under Rosetta, which is an accomplishment. Watching some other stuff from them this morning, it seems like they're passing the metal calls directly through to the GPU (which makes sense), even while translating CPU calls from x86 to ARM.
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