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Re:MacBook Neo by ivanjermakov on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @04:23PM (#47340985)
I like to imagine the gaming landscape if developers were forced to work on 5yr old hardware.
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Re:MacBook Neo by nottorp on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @04:32PM (#47341162)
Sometimes I have the feeling AAAs can be better optimized than Unity based indies.

It's probably a bit better than when Unity was new. I do remember the first x-com remake in 2012 was lasting longer on battery than $random_unity_indie.

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Re:MacBook Neo by extrabajs on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @04:29PM (#47341103)
You mean like consoles?
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Re:MacBook Neo by ivanjermakov on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:00PM (#47341728)
Kinda, games ported to mobile also.
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Re:MacBook Neo by nottorp on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:11AM (#47364728)
Porting to mobile comes with a dumbing down of the control scheme and thus dumbing down of game complexity since you can't control it.

And they turn into "free" with IAPs.

Rather not.

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