They somewhat are. Triple A games aren't defined by their visuals but by their development and marketing budget and their ability to turn a profit.
My belief is spelled out in my recent post. Millions of Macs capable of running recent AAA games won't automatically convince developers that they should port their games to macOS. For several reasons. One is that the vast majority of Mac users aren't gamers, another is the fact that most game developers don't take the Mac seriously isn't just a question of GPU power.
It's been 3 years since I created this thread. Today, the original ideas and foresight have been confirmed by Apple in an interview. When I first wrote down the post, I thought Apple's strategy was blindingly obvious. Yet, most posters here were more than skeptical.
My original ideas were quite simple. They boiled down to:
- Apple wants AAA games but had no way to doing so before
- Every Apple Silicon Mac is capable of AAA gaming from low to high settings. This was not the case during the Intel era.
- Eventually, it'd make too much financial sense for developers to make AAA games for the Apple ecosystem due to the volume of total Apple Silicon devices sold (iPads, Vision Pro, iPhone Pro, Macs, etc).
Inside Apple's Massive Push to Transform the Mac Into a Gaming Paradise
In an interview with Apple product marketing managers Leland Martin, Doug Brooks, and Gordon Keppel, we go deep on how Apple is transforming the Mac into a respectable AAA video games platform that can compete with PCs and consoles.www.inverse.com
I gave my thoughts here.Related article:
Inside Apple's Massive Push to Transform the Mac Into a Gaming Paradise
In an interview with Apple product marketing managers Leland Martin, Doug Brooks, and Gordon Keppel, we go deep on how Apple is transforming the Mac into a respectable AAA video games platform that can compete with PCs and consoles.
None of your arguments are original. They've been rehashed over and over again in the last 60 pages. At first, people said the same thing to try to prove that Apple doesn't care/want AAA games. Now the goal post has been moved that Apple does want AAA games but it's not going to work.
It's pretty clear this whole thread from the beginning is about graphically demanding games. Otherwise what's the point?
Nintendo is not going to be bringing their non-graphically demanding AAA games to Mac, and the ones on PC/PS5/Xbox tend to be graphically demanding.
You don't need a 4090, but you do need something better than a 1050 for recent AAA titles released on PC.
No, I think the strategy is incredibly smart for Apple. The game itself doesn't matter much.
On the other hand, Mac users who are also gamers prefer platform-independent stores such as Steam for exactly the same reason. If you are an AAA gamer and a Mac user, you probably have both a Windows PC and a Mac. Why buy an inferior product from the App Store, when you can buy the same game from an established store and play it on all devices?
Nah, I like to believe that taking the MS route on this is the better play. You need an Apple device to use Arcade anyways. It doesn't prevent them from selling the game in other locations either (or at least GamePass doesn't, not sure if Apple has stupider rules for Arcade). You get more recurring revenue and developers get a more steady cut of the pie (otherwise what is the point of putting games on GamePass).
Yeah. 50% of all computers capable of playing AAA games are not Macs.
That wasn't even his argument even though his thread title is misleading.
Nah it says 50% of computers capable is playing AAA games will be Macs. There isn't a distinction on if it is a gaming PC or not.
I don't know, but hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads are capable of running most console games released in the past years, yet most of these games aren't ported to iOS.
Yet, many of them were ported. Up until now, the most popular mobile games were designed from the ground up for mobile. Genshin Impact is every bit of a AAA game, for example. Mobile has cut throat competition. You can't just lazily port a AAA game over and expect it to sell.
www.macrumors.com
Apple Arcade does have instances of being mis-managed like this scenario:
| SoC | Market share | Change |
| M1 | 27.98 % | -1.15 % |
| M2 | 14.63 % | +0.29 % |
| M1 Pro | 12.27 % | +0.23 % |
| M1 Max | 5.08 % | +0.22 % |
| M2 Pro | 4.74 % | -0.11 % |
| M2 Max | 2.33 % | +0.10 % |
| M3 Pro | 1.41 % | +0.59 % |
| M3 Max | 0.92 % | +0.41 % |
| M3 | 0.43 % | +0.21 % |
| M1 Ultra | 0.24 % | +0.05 % |
| M2 Ultra | 0.11 % | +0.01 % |
| Intel | 29.86 % | -0.85 % |
