To celebrate this Metal 3 API milestone, Apple confirmed that popular and processing-intensive games Resident Evil Village and No Man's Sky will come to macOS "later this year."
Remember when Steve Jobs brought John Carmack to show off Doom 3 running on Apple hardware?I don't keep up with Apple, but when was the last time they had cool exclusive games, the 90s?
LOL at they want AAA gaming back. Hopefully they will fully commit to porting games for real. I don't keep up with Apple, but when was the last time they had cool exclusive games, the 90s? I remember Bungie making good games for them, until they did Apple a bamboozle and switched to Xbox for Halo.
I think Microsoft bought Bungie because they wanted (or maybe even needed) an exclusive title for their new system. The Marathon series that Bungie had made prior to Halo were pretty good and Halo itself looked impressive, which is probably why MS picked them up.
Apple's biggest issue with gaming is getting anyone to spend the time optimizing for Metal when they're already dealing with DX12, Vulkan, and whatever consoles might be using.
Having something like this will at least allow games to run smoother in their unoptimized state.
Considering that the AR goggles from Apple will have to be fed with software one of main key aspects of it will be of course gaming.
Don't underestimate Apple's ambitions. I would not be surprised to see even the "craziest", or rather... unthinkable currently initiatives.
The VR project seems the most likely explanation for me as the genesis of this project. The game support was probably from people responsible for creating Metal pushing for more to get done with it.
I get the impression that these silicon valley CEO types are totally unaware of gaming as even a thing though. It's all about productivity, that's what gives them dopamine so it should be what gives everyone else dopamine. Witness Mark Zuckerberg's vision of XR being simulating an office, because of course given infinite possibilities that's the first and most important place anyone would think of simulating.
The game market isn't on Mac, the game developers aren't on Mac, it isn't happening. You can't just put out a slightly updated API and some more overpriced hardware and suddenly have an ecosystem sprout up.
The game market isn't on Mac, the game developers aren't on Mac, it isn't happening. You can't just put out a slightly updated API and some more overpriced hardware and suddenly have an ecosystem sprout up.
Yep. Apple wants to have total control over their entire software stack. Not an entirely bad idea - but very bad when it comes to game development. If M series desktop/laptop Macs doubled their market share over the next couple of years, some of the top game makers would take advantage of that - so long as Apple would show some buy in. Poor odds on that I’d guess. Apple and it’s developers do a huge amount business with games, just not from AAA development firms.Surely if Apple was getting serious about gaming they'd drop Metal for Vulkan.
There is 1 bln iPhones, active.The game market isn't on Mac, the game developers aren't on Mac, it isn't happening. You can't just put out a slightly updated API and some more overpriced hardware and suddenly have an ecosystem sprout up.
There is 1 bln iPhones, active.
The gaming is on the iPhones, and therefore - its also on the Mac.
Just because we live in our bubble doesn't mean there are no other bubbles.
-VR hasn't taken off in the substantially larger PC market for games or much else... because there are fundamental issues with the tech that sprinkling Jobs mummy dust on won't magically fix.
All the problems that have always been there with VR: bulky headset, motion sickness, needing physical space, etc cannot be solved by Apple.
Agreed on SV CEOs being an out of touch bunch of nutter butters if the first thing they think of after VR is "office". Problem is VR doesn't really work for or have broad appeal in gaming... So where else is the tech going to go?
The goggles are for AR not VR, AR has huge potential, it's likely to be completely revolutionary in fact. Not for gaming but for general life.-VR hasn't taken off in the substantially larger PC market for games or much else... because there are fundamental issues with the tech that sprinkling Jobs mummy dust on won't magically fix.
All the problems that have always been there with VR: bulky headset, motion sickness, needing physical space, etc cannot be solved by Apple.
Agreed on SV CEOs being an out of touch bunch of nutter butters if the first thing they think of after VR is "office". Problem is VR doesn't really work for or have broad appeal in gaming... So where else is the tech going to go?
The goggles are for AR not VR, AR has huge potential, it's likely to be completely revolutionary in fact. Not for gaming but for general life.
Perhaps they want to buy EA? 😱Apple/Mac have completely ceded the gaming market to Windows/PCs and they're never getting more than a blip back.
Look how entrenched Steam is vs Epic and that's on the same relatively open platform.
MS is making huge moves picking up gaming studios.
What chance in hell do games have coming out on a platform that is basically devoid of all PC gamers (and doesn't even have the BYOPC community to prop it up), walled garden, no existing library, and no real consumer base either?