Read the original post. My definition is in it.
That's a poor way of defining an AAA-capable computer. Many laptops that sell for $1,000 do not contain a dedicated GPU. On Windows laptops, a dedicated GPU is almost given for AAA games since AMD and Intel iGPUs are so weak.
You're spending too much time trying to impose your point of view on something that may not even occur.
What? That's silly. You asked me a question, I answered. Now you're butt hurt.
I read your manifesto.
The source I used was IDC. IDC estimated gaming only computers. This Gartner report estimated all computers.
What does this have anything to do with AAA-capable computers?
You were looking for what $100 PCs can play AAA games at Ultra Settings with at least 60FPS. Which is a fundamentally different question than can $100 PC's play AAA games. The answer to the former is none, the latter is most of them. iGPU's in PC land are not great but they, in a lot of cases, can play AAA games. You suffer for performance though, which was the point of the YT vid.
Apple does not market Mas primarily for gaming. So the IDC figure has little relevance.
What is there to be gained by releasing on a platform with a different interface?
Sounds like the rabbit hole of that dude who kept insisting Halo would have made Macs a gamer's computer.
too much Reality Distortion Field
Seems like that question could work in either direction. Why hasn't Larian Games done a version of Balurs Gate 3 for iPad? Clearly they have the interface working for DOS:2 and BG3 uses the same engine...
Money.
but a touch focussed interface isn’t necessarily great with a mouse pointer. Windows 8 tile interface is my example. Decent UX with touch. Terrible with a mouse. If a developer is willing to take the easy option and just Publish with no care for the UX that says a lot about the developers.Money.
And no, you don't have to rework the app if it's single touch as I said above, single touch is great with a mouse or trackpad. If it's multi touch, that I would understand. (and I hate multitouch gestures
A mouse is a perfectly acceptable alternate for single touch to me -- never had a problem with it. It also says a lot about the developer when they ignore someone that wants to use their app, and even pay for it.
Who says I wouldn't? If it's something I want and I want it on my Mac, i'll pay it, even if you make it condition to pay for using it on the Mac, I'd pay it.
Forgive me for saying this, but I don’t think that your view is typical. A lot of the sentiments I’ve seen have been lamenting the lack of blockbuster releases for Mac over not being able to run iOS apps (and I recall, that announcement was met with quite a lot of derision).
In terms of Windows 8 (we got a free Dell tablet with it installed) what made it worse was once you got past the infamous start Menu replacement it was a standard desktop interface, completely unsuited to touch controls. And let me tell you the touch input was NOT accurate enough for the small ui.
By what mechanism can you buy an app twice from the App Store on the same account?
Windows 8 was a disaster in every way. It was just the first famous example I thought of
It probably isn't.
After all, I'm a developer too and that colors my attitude.What can I say, it was a big selling point for me, and a huge disappointment eventually.
That way I agree with you, touch is not a decent replacement for mouse, especially with how Microsoft did with Windows 8. (Windows 8 sucked UI-wise!)
And that's the point. How much time and effort is needed to "port" iOS games with custom gesture recognizers to macOS? Sure it depends on the game, but...
That I don't know for sure, maybe rename it and say it's the Mac compatible version of ...
I think renaming would work, but you should make a suggestion to Apple about it, you might be surprised that they'd want to help it along, since they did the work to make iOS apps work under MacOS.
I think that's just the issue this dev is talking about, though --- now it's a matter of supporting a macOS version for those who are not ok with an interface that is less than ideal outside of touch input. This now is no longer just "rename and tick the checkbox" -- this is "rename, tick the checkbox, and either rework the UX, or suffer poor reviews (hit to reputation!) from users expecting a 'Mac compatible' version."
