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[twilo99]

I love them, even for gaming, but Christ…

Who does software better than apple?

 

[Parazels]

As soon as ARM takes over Linux and windows more native games will come to MacBooks as well.
Get ready for a bright future!

 

[UltimaKilo]

And Apple users wont give two shits.

Apple has been "making moves" in gaming for about 20 years at this stage. And it goes precisely nowhere.

Their biggest contribution has been the app store which destroyed the notion of value in software. So big thanks to them for that, I guess.

and they have been dipping their toes more and more into games, especially in the last 5 years. I have been telling the console warriors here that Microsoft doesn't care much about Sony and the PlayStation, that's not a threat. If Apple gains gaming parity with Windows, they're going to start losing users who already have an iPhone, iPad HomePod, etc. but hold onto their PC for gaming.

There's roughly 1.67-1.77 BILLION Windows PC gamers globally, if Apple captures just 5% of that market, that's a huge hit and slippery slope for MS and a real threat to their business.

 

[RoboFu]

Because the $600 Mac minis can play RE4 at 1440 p with ray tracing and that's just the start of their modern gpu development.

 

[Pedro Motta]

Having Xbox as a reference is a big mistake.

 

[Hari Seldon]

I like how apple is making a second store for gaming because their actual store was so overrun with garbage games that no one uses it anymore. I wonder what will stop this second store from the same inevitable fate?

 

[FinalBossWithTheMostPower]

Because the $600 Mac minis can play RE4 at 1440 p with ray tracing and that's just the start of their modern gpu development.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Having Xbox as a reference is a big mistake.

Just Verge being Verge...

It literally has nothing to do with Xbox.

 

[diffusionx]

I'll believe they're making real moves into gaming, when I see it.

Apple has said since the 2000s they were gonna do more in gaming, and it never goes anywhere. Mainly because they don't put out much money to fund development, and they push their own proprietary standards instead of open ones.

I am totally confounded by takes like this.

iOS is the biggest game platform in the world.

Honestly surprised Apple still hasn't made their own controller yet. Like their take on the Backbone style controller that could work both attached to phone and unattached (apple tv)

Feel like it would help push gaming on Apple. Not to mention it would be another high margin accessory that they could sell lol

those backbone/attachable controllers are a usability nightmare and so inelegant. I am not surprised they haven't done one because of this, nor should they.

 

[GoldenEye98]

those backbone/attachable controllers are a usability nightmare and so inelegant. I am not surprised they haven't done one because of this, nor should they.

Apple moving into areas where existing products are a usability nightmare and inelegant and then working their magic is literally their business model.

 

[akaFullmetal]

 

[Durin]

I am totally confounded by takes like this.

iOS is the biggest game platform in the world.

iOS is the biggest app platform in the world (along with Android) because everyone uses a smartphone for a variety of things, but they've put no special effort into games. Developers had to cobble together earlier games on their platform, and those performing better than other app types are why they even started to pay attention to games as a market at all.

Their storefront sucks to sort and find games vs. Steam and others. They did classic things for devs like forcing them to design games around the siri remote with the early Apple TV boxes, because they couldn't be asked to make anything akin to an official game controller to support games that don't work well on touchscreens. They've done little to support open standards for game development, including support for larger APIs like Vulkan that would make cross-platform development easier (Android does though), because they want to push their proprietary Metal API.

That mobile gaming market was handed to them by virtue of producing a smarphone form factor that grew a massive audiences for devs to sell anything to, not because they put any special resources to foster or make game development easier. I'm hesistant to think that's really going to change much.

 

[Zannegan]

Better?

Call me insane, but I kinda want to go hands-on with that controller.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Apple doing anything gaming is a plus, Steve Jobs would help shape Apple gaming if around today

 

[Syphon Filter]

As soon as ARM takes over Linux and windows more native games will come to MacBooks as well.
Get ready for a bright future!

Arm is fucking trash, it will never take over.

 

[EverydayBeast]

 

[Trunx81]

I love my iPhone, I really do and I had multiple tries on gaming on it. Some good, most pretty bad. Longest game I've played was Fire Emblem. But that's a highly mobile oriented one. Console games on the touchscreen just feel wrong if you're a console player. The promised high class games like Resident Evil and AC:Mirage sucked. Especially the later, freezing in game every few minutes. Tried the demo and it has those glitches all over the place. Shame.

 

[Hudo]

Apple doing anything gaming is a plus, Steve Jobs would help shape Apple gaming if around today

Steve Jobs would be the number 1 Fortnite player, fr fr no cap skibidi.

 

[Magic Carpet]

IOS26 I heard today the rumor is renaming the releases. It's been several years of the same ole same ole on iPhone. This might be a good time to do something new with gaming.
But Switch 2 will be getting a ton of news to drown out anything Apple announces.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

A little late to the party, it is almost over. Besides they already have their Game Center, just upgrade it/help developers integrate it more and call it a day.

The truth is that the next/current big thing is influencers/youtubers/Tiktokers (?), for better or worse.

 

[Comandr]

Too many buttons