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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by wlesieutre on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:39AM (#36227347)
Two days ago we could speculate that maybe the $6000+ Mac Pro would bring better graphics performance, but now we know it's a $7000 Mac Studio with PCIe slots. And as far as we know you can't put a GPU in those slots.

Not that it would've been in my price range anyway, but it could've indicated that thunderbolt eGPU support would make a return.

Lack of that is a weird omission if Apple is trying to act like they have a gaming platform.

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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by musicale on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:43PM (#36233262)
> Lack of that is a weird omission if Apple is trying to act like they have a gaming platform.

Apple has a huge gaming platform, and it isn't the Mac.

https://www.ign.com/articles/apple-made-more-than-nintendo-s...

However, I imagine that they'd still like to sell more games in the Mac App Store (in addition to iOS ports, iPad games that can run on Apple Silicon, and Apple Arcade subscriptions) and this might help.

It might also make it easier to port games to Apple Arcade.

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