Apple execs on M2 chips, winning gamers and when to buy a Mac

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9 points·tambourine_man··4 comments

The only way for Apple to win gamers is to release a Nintendo Switch competitor, an Apple handheld with a M2 ship; that would be interesting to see

And no, i personally don't count an iPhone as a handheld console, touch screen controls are for casual mobile games for when you stuck in the toilet

I don't think that would work.

Valve can release a handheld like that because they have Proton. Apple cannot release a Metal handheld if their only Metal-ready games are Tomb Raider and Resident Evil.

Most indie games from steam are available on iOS/Android [1]

AAA companies all are releasing their games on iOS/Android

Genshin Impact is another example of a popular AAA game on mobile, same for Riot games, all on mobile

You'd be surprised how many steam games get ported to mobile, there are a lot!

An Apple handheld using M2 would be very successful, nowadays people use Unity/Unreal, they both support Metal, most popular open source GPU libraries support DX12/Metal/Vulkan, it's a solved problem

It's sad that in the west, most HW companies are scared, it's either that or they don't see the potential, or they are lazy

Also the Handheld based Android consoles market is booming [2]

[1] - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dead-cells/id1389752090

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FweFSlRk_I

I bought an M1 as my first Mac. It's absolutely amazing—fast, looks great, feels great, runs cool and silent— but I still resent Apple's control over it and I think I want my next laptop to be System76 or similar. (Or maybe it's time to look at Asahi Linux again...)

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