Metal is widely used for game development due to iOS. This means there are plenty of game developers familiar with it, and lots of tools such as porting tools a

Metal is widely used for game development due to iOS. This means there are plenty of game developers familiar with it, and lots of tools such as porting tools and game engines like Unity that support it very well. The main problem has been that Metal did not support a lot of advanced features used by AAA desktop games. This changed last year with a huge update to the high end rendering features in desktop Metal, so Apple does seem serious about this. They’ve always been weak on game tech on the desktop though, so we’ll see.