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Re:Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated by Aissen on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:37PM (#28992817)
This part of the article was particularly cringe. People don't seem to realize how much of a tech prowess it is that x86 builds of those two games are even running at an acceptable framerate.

That said, it's been a year since the M1 release, and Apple could have paid a few hundreds/millions for a few AAA game ports. They didn't, and that says how much they care about gaming on these devices.

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Re:Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated by musicale on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:36PM (#28993447)
> that says how much they care about gaming on these devices

Apple's bread and butter is iOS gaming (where it takes in more game profit than Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and Activision combined) rather than Windows PC game ports to macOS.

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Re:Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated by Aissen on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:09AM (#28997672)
> Apple's bread and butter is iOS gaming (where it takes in more game profit than Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and Activision combined) rather than

Any source on this "game profit" metric ? It seems plausible, but I was looking for the details of this calculation/estimation. For example, what percentage of App Store revenue is game related ?

> Windows PC game ports to macOS.

I specifically said AAA games, not Windows PC games.

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Re:Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated by GeekyBear on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:58PM (#28993033)
>This part of the article was particularly cringe. People don't seem to realize how much of a tech prowess it is that x86 builds of those two games are even running at an acceptable framerate.

Spoken like someone who has never seen how poorly Microsoft's x86 to ARM emulation works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhESSZIXvCA

They had difficulty getting programs to work at all, much less have acceptable performance under emulation.

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Re:Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated by rbanffy on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:11PM (#28993791)
> Spoken like someone who has never seen how poorly Microsoft's x86 to ARM emulation works.

Sometimes I wonder why they are still a software company. I really like their keyboards and mice. Their software, not so much.

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Re:Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated by fomine3 on Monday October 25, 2021 @08:26PM (#28995012)
It's not good like as M1, partially because of they aren't chip designer. Apple does the trick on M1 to emulate x86.
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