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> Disagree. My argument is that Apple have been ignoring it pretty much completely.

Worse than ignorning really. Games for windows from years ago largely still work. Games for Mac Os X don't because Apple regularly breaks compatability. This means the long tail of late sales won't happen without more developer effort, which isn't usually available.

I second toast0's point. Apple didn't ignore desktop gaming, they actively gave the middle finger to the whole community, repeatedly, and iOS was the only bridge that was thrown to restore some kind of decent relationship.

See nvidia basically banned from the macos ecosystem, or the whole fight with Epic as they couldn't come to any resemblance of a compromise.

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Plus a big part of what makes OS X OS X is the careful curated hardware.

Yeah, like using overheating intel CPUs for year years. I feel for the poor schmuck who bought them, especially just before the jump to M1

I think that apple is going to break into gaming in a big way in the next 5-10 years. A small target range of carefully-curated hardware is a HUGE advantage in game development.

Devs will be able to optimize for apple machines in much the same way that they currently optimize for consoles, and you'll be able to know exactly how a game will perform on your system before buying it.

There is only so much optimization you can do before you run into the limits of the hardware.

I wouldn’t mind a 30% markup for an apple gaming pc, but based on the markups the currently charge for compute… I’d expect the top of the line $2k PC I built this year to cost $4k-$6k if it came from apple. I’m extremely skeptical of the vision for the same reason. You need raw power for driving high end displays.

They will probably compete in the console market though. Kinda like how their headphones compete in the “rich but not knowledgeable about audio” demographic. Actually, I’m kinda selling my self on this. I should buy more apple stock.

They're not top end AAA games by any means, but both Factorio and World of Warcraft have highly performant native Silicon builds that drive my high refresh rate display @ 1440p quite happily, without even making the fans spin up noticeably.

Nice! Meanwhile my 4080 and i7 struggles to get COD warzone above 120fps at 4k. While drawing 400w of system power.