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>Apple has a great chipset, yet seems asleep at the wheel when it comes to gaming. These comments never fail to amuse me when Apple is one of the most successf

>Apple has a great chipset, yet seems asleep at the wheel when it comes to gaming. These comments never fail to amuse me when Apple is one of the most successful gaming companies in the world by revenue. The walled garden pays well.

imiric 4y ago
Revenue doesn't matter. It's not a real competitor to NVIDIA or AMD for consumers until it can run most non-casual / AAA titles _well_, and can dip into the huge PC back catalog. Gaming on macOS is still severely limited.
- junofan 4y ago
  Apple definitely has the most successful gaming platform of all time. Hard to say they’re asleep at the wheel.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    Not when compared against PlayStation and Nintendo offerings.
    - dendriti 4y ago
      Apple earns more from gaming than Nintendo.
      - pjmlp 4y ago
        Numbers to share?
  - mycall 4y ago
    Microsoft Windows is a very successful gaming platform as the NT kernel has over 25 years of game sales.
- faeriechangling 4y ago
  Apple cares more about their stockholders than consumers.
russelg 4y ago
When most people mention gaming on Apple, they're probably talking about full AAA games on their Macs, not candy crusher clone #9001 on their iPhone.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  They are talking about Infinity Blade (still nothing comparable on the Web for a 2010 title), and plenty of others that came after it. https://www.reddit.com/r/iosgaming/comments/t1iqlh/a_list_of_aaa_ios_games/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iosgaming/comments/t1iqlh/a_list_of...
kalleboo 4y ago
Apple is more of a gambling company than a gaming company
jacooper 4y ago
In that sense android is the worlds biggest gaming platform. Mobile gaming isn't real gaming, sorry.
goosedragons 4y ago
Who cares about a few thousand whales buying gems for awful games? They don't care about the gaming market that's actually interested in interesting and actually fun things. Perhaps they don't care because the whales give so much...

imiric 4y ago

Revenue doesn't matter. It's not a real competitor to NVIDIA or AMD for consumers until it can run most non-casual / AAA titles _well_, and can dip into the huge PC back catalog. Gaming on macOS is still severely limited.

junofan 4y ago
Apple definitely has the most successful gaming platform of all time. Hard to say they’re asleep at the wheel.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  Not when compared against PlayStation and Nintendo offerings.
  - dendriti 4y ago
    Apple earns more from gaming than Nintendo.
    - pjmlp 4y ago
      Numbers to share?
- mycall 4y ago
  Microsoft Windows is a very successful gaming platform as the NT kernel has over 25 years of game sales.
faeriechangling 4y ago
Apple cares more about their stockholders than consumers.

russelg 4y ago

When most people mention gaming on Apple, they're probably talking about full AAA games on their Macs, not candy crusher clone #9001 on their iPhone.

pjmlp 4y ago
They are talking about Infinity Blade (still nothing comparable on the Web for a 2010 title), and plenty of others that came after it. https://www.reddit.com/r/iosgaming/comments/t1iqlh/a_list_of_aaa_ios_games/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iosgaming/comments/t1iqlh/a_list_of...

kalleboo 4y ago

Apple is more of a gambling company than a gaming company

jacooper 4y ago

In that sense android is the worlds biggest gaming platform. Mobile gaming isn't real gaming, sorry.

goosedragons 4y ago

Who cares about a few thousand whales buying gems for awful games? They don't care about the gaming market that's actually interested in interesting and actually fun things. Perhaps they don't care because the whales give so much...