misk@sopuli.xyz to Apple@lemmy.world · 6 days agoThe M4 Pro chip inside Apple's ludicrously tiny new Mac Mini would make for an unbelievably good handheld gaming PCwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down13cross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up136arrow-down1external-linkThe M4 Pro chip inside Apple's ludicrously tiny new Mac Mini would make for an unbelievably good handheld gaming PCwww.pcgamer.commisk@sopuli.xyz to Apple@lemmy.world · 6 days agomessage-square18fedilinkcross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.works
minus-squareschizo@forum.uncomfortable.businesslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·6 days agoPeople being the people making the games. Apple’s love affair with Metal and the utter lack of Vulkan support for ages on Apple silicon slowed down/totally killed anyone porting games. This really didn’t get sorted out until pretty recently, and shit’s gotten better in the last six months or a year. Hopefully it keeps getting ports and such, but it took WAY too damn long to even be in a position for this to start happening.
minus-squaregray@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 days agoYep this is the real reason - Apple is so hostile towards developers and no support outside of proprietary Metal API it’s no surprise there are few games.
People being the people making the games.
Apple’s love affair with Metal and the utter lack of Vulkan support for ages on Apple silicon slowed down/totally killed anyone porting games.
This really didn’t get sorted out until pretty recently, and shit’s gotten better in the last six months or a year.
Hopefully it keeps getting ports and such, but it took WAY too damn long to even be in a position for this to start happening.
Yep this is the real reason - Apple is so hostile towards developers and no support outside of proprietary Metal API it’s no surprise there are few games.