Why ___ Won’t Develop AAA Games For M1 Macs

Despite the revolution in Apple Silicon graphics in the M1 chip, macOS is not getting the number of high quality, high budget games it deserves. This is a video about why AAA games are not being released on M1 Mac, despite the vastly improved performance of the new Macs. In particular this video touches on the topic of the Diablo 2: Resurrected missing port, the missing executable from Humankind’s macOS port, as well as the really good examples from studios like Larian, the makers of Divinity Original Sin II and Baldur’s Gate, and also developers like 4A Games, the makers of Metro Exodus and the Metro series, all of which have fantastic macOS ports.

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All footage tested on my MacBook Air M1 2020 with 8 GB RAM and 8 GPU cores where specified.

Call of Duty Mobile players banned on M1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnhhTFMaqHo @DavidHarry

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► Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:16 x3 Reasons M1 Macs would revolutionize gaming
01:15 Disappointment
01:43 iOS app ports?
03:02 Low number of macOS players – Rocket League
04:21 macOS ports not taken seriously – Humankind
04:54 macOS ports missing – Diablo II: Resurrected
05:25 AAA macOS games do exist!
06:20 Larian Studios – Divinity and Baldur’s Gate 3
07:07 Apple Arcade AAA?
07:50 Still in early M1 cycle
08:44 Conclusion

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