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Comment by faeriechangling | Hacker News Reader

>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.

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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.

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...

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.

Apple definitely has the most successful gaming platform of all time. Hard to say they’re asleep at the wheel.

Not when compared against PlayStation and Nintendo offerings.

Apple earns more from gaming than Nintendo.

Numbers to share?

Microsoft Windows is a very successful gaming platform as the NT kernel has over 25 years of game sales.

Apple cares more about their stockholders than consumers.

Apple is more of a gambling company than a gaming company

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...

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

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