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Macs still don't have games.
by arkanciscan 6y ago
Macs still don't have games.
- wffurr 6y agoDemonstrably false. A quick glance at the front page of Steam shows at least half the games support Mac and Linux: https://store.steampowered.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/ It's never been easier to write a cross platform game with toolkits like Unity.
- cameronbrown 6y agoHalf of those games marked as macOS don't work anymore after the forced 32->64bit migration. My Steam library is useless on my Macbook.
- fouc 6y agoHmm, another reason to stay on High Sierra rather than upgrading to Catalina.
- ghaff 6y agoIt's true that there are fewer games. If someone's really into laptop/desktop gaming, they probably want a Windows system. Though it's also true that, for a lot of casual gamers, laptop gaming generally may not matter all that much.
- arkanciscan 6y agoHalf as many, and only the bad half.
- cameronbrown 6y agoI disagree - there is fun to be had in these games (same with those with Linux support). But as I mentioned in a sibling comment, the real issue is half of this half is now unsupported.
- arkanciscan 6y agocan't hear you because he's playing Red Dead Redemption 2
- cameronbrown 6y agoIf it wasn't for DRM, that game would probably work under Proton.
- bluescrn 6y agoMacs still don't have serious GPUs. But they did still have a growing selection of less-GPU-intensive games. And then Apple removed 32-bit support, wiping out a huge chunk of the Mac Steam library. Oh, and they deprecated OpenGL, too...
- wayneftw 6y agoYeah that and they still don’t have a UI that anybody wants to use or any software that businesses need. Google had to build their own fleet management system for Macs for crying put loud! The thought of Macs replacing most Windows machines is going to make me just laugh and laugh and laugh at random times today.
- ghaff 6y ago>Forget games, they still don’t have a UI that anybody wants to use or any software that businesses need. A lot of businesses have relatively little desktop software that runs natively these days. And many of the key desktop apps like Office (though even that's less important these days), Adobe Creative Cloud, etc. do run on Macs. Yes, Windows is and will remain the standard at the majority of companies. But increasingly the laptop OS/chip doesn't matter as much. I have a couple Macs but I often just use my Chromebook.
- MatthiasP 6y agoBut iPads and iPhones have. The existing library of already ARM-optimized software will make the transition easier.
- jdxcode 6y agopeople are buying chromebooks and mid-range laptops for gaming?