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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by Yujf on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @09:00AM (#36226251)
Do they need to most powerfull gaming hardware? Maybe just the fact that it might get reasonable to play most games on a macbook is enough to get people who also want to game to buy a macbook instead of a windows laptop. And maybe this is enough to get developers to consider mac.

They do not need to compete with nvidea for the top of the line

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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by kitsunesoba on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:55AM (#36227556)
Yeah, high end enthusiast hardware is in fact pretty niche, and I say this as someone with a 5950X/3080Ti tower. The vast majority of people playing games are doing so on pretty old/average hardware, a bar which is met and exceeded by several M-series Macs.
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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by mrtranscendence on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @11:10AM (#36227807)
High-end hardware is niche, but the state of AAA game performance these days ... ugh. I can't even get a stable 60fps on Jedi Survivor with my 5800x/3080 Ti rig, even with lower settings. How bad is it on something like a 1060?
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