The final blow for real gaming on the Mac, or the beginning of a new era?

[Machspeed007]

Ipad/iOS games will run on the Silicon Macs.
Also, streaming services: Stadia, Xbox probably, Steah in-Home Sharing.
That's near-term. In the long-term, who knows, universal apps for the mac games we already have.

 

[Bustycat]

Good news: WoW Patch 9.0.2 natively supports Apple Silicon

Mac Support Update -- November 16

With this week’s patch 9.0.2, we’re adding native Apple Silicon support to World of Warcraft. This means that the WoW 9.0.2 client will run natively on ARM64 architecture, rather than under emulation via Rosetta. We’re pleased to have native day one support for Apple Silicon. While our testing...

us.forums.blizzard.com

 

[revs]

I think this could be a boost for Mac gaming. For once, macs have decent graphics that can run games in an acceptable manner.

If Apple continue to have best in class integrated graphics, then that’s enough to make it viable to play games on a even the slowest arm Mac.

It doesn’t mean companies will port their games, but at least graphics performance is one less thing to worry about if they do.

And of course - ARM macs can run iOS games. And porting to iOS is way more likely for a company, and they get the Mac version “free”