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This article is speculative trash. Gaming on Apple hardware is a nothingburger: it doesn't exist & it likely never will. At best, they'll continue to get ports of a miniscule fraction of existing games, years after they first release. Gamers will go where the games are, and they aren't on Apple.
I strongly disagree.

Apple has dug itself a deep hole over the past decade+ but with the M* chips they are slowly digging their way out. Setting a new baseline for all Macs when it comes to graphics is a big deal and the GPK/GM as well as things like the new caching or hardware ray tracing support indicate that Apple is taking this more seriously.

It will take _many_ years for game developers to believe that and start testing the waters but Apple appears to be dedicated to improving the gaming situation.

Time will tell, Apple has dropped the ball multiple times in the past when it comes to gaming and/or their commitment to it (more often than not their lack of commitment) but GPK is a big deal. Why make that if you weren’t making a play for gaming? In fact I think things like Metal was clearly Apple trying to reach game developers. I think it was a very Apple way to do it, as in to say they went and created their own thing and expected everyone to come running to implement it. I don’t expect them to add vulkan support which would actually be a big deal and a much better attempt to woo game developers but GPK is still a big deal as is the caching/raytracing.

> it doesn't exist & it likely never will.

What a boring take and frankly an uninformed one given what Apple has done over the last 3 years. Apple may still fail, the deck is stacked against them, but they are making strides and actually trying. To be clear, it’s “stacked” against them by their own actions, though the gaming consolidation doesn’t help. I doubt MS/Sony will be particularly interested in helping out the Mac by porting their games.

Let's not mention that Apple likes to gatekeep. And I imagine a lot of game studios don't want to bend to Apple's will when they can get on perfectly fine elsewhere.