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This is a fantastic achievement for Apple. Please remember this is only representative of the first games of the first wave of these types of apps on Apple platforms. There’s no doubt in the future Apple will optimize software and hardware and game devs will develop with Metal as a target audience.

Though that wasn’t the highest graphical setting a lot more would be possible if we had more ram. And plugging it in while playing helps with the heat slightly , a controller is must.

This happens every few years. Apple pays a developer to port their game to Mac, Apple users proclaim 'its the year of Mac gaming', then Apple doesnt change it's stance on API and no other developers follow.

Macs are still a joke for gaming. Apple has even lost Valve's Mac support recently, so it's not even trending in a positive direction.

Pretty wild that just a year ago Macs were considered an absolute joke when it comes to AAA gaming.

In that time Valve has orchestrated compatibility with over 7000 games on Linux... Valve sold the Steam Deck at break-even to subsidize growth in the gaming market, while Apple waits for developers and consumers alike to subsidize their stock buybacks. Macs have all the potential, none of the momentum.

I think they are, most Indi games are using Unity or Unreal and are not pushing the envelope of HW like this one... but these AAA titles shipping (at full console prices) are important for showing that devs can charge real money... many devs do not consider porting as they assume they would need to make the game free to play full of ads for it to work on the AppStore if apple can show that people will pay real money then the market changes a lot for indie devs were the work is not much but they do not want to make the game a horrible mess of ads and in app purchases.

Have you seen mobile gaming!??

I'm surprised Apple has not done more to port more Indie-Games onto their devices as a strategy to build larger collection of fun affordable games across many genres?

bcoz Indie Games do not make heads turn. When you say iphone can Resident Evil there will be articles, news headlines. no one gives a shit if they announce it can run spiritfarer or celeste

It really is amazing for a phone that fits in your pocket.

Yes! 12.9inch iPad Pro experience was terrible because of the black bars

Is it like a movie black bars on top and bottom? Like is it set for 1080p 16:9 display?

From what I recall it's pretty bad performance. 30fps and medium to low settings. Below my playable threshold. Have to imagine the ios version has extremely low settings.