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Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

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433 points Sporktacular | 2 comments | 04 Aug 23 00:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.434s | source
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reilly3000 ◴[04 Aug 23 14:55 UTC] No.37000891[source]▶
It’s worth noting that Steam gaming on M1+ chips is nearly impossible. My library of hundreds of games yielded only a dozen titles that were playable, compared with about 20% of my library that runs on my Intel Mac. Publishers simply couldn’t care less about supporting Apple Silicon outside of a handful of mostly casual indie games. For as wonderful as Steam gaming on Linux has become, the Mac side has seemed to regress in equal measure.
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rmuratov ◴[04 Aug 23 17:37 UTC] No.37003206[source]▶
I believe it's the opposite - more publishers will consider porting to Mac.

Previously, you could only play on desktop Macs with a discrete graphics card. But now there is a M1 Macbook with powerful graphics out of the box. And the install base is pretty big.

But it only will happen with the help from Apple. We already see the first attempts - Death Stranding will be available natively on M1 Macs.

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1. ric2b ◴[04 Aug 23 18:10 UTC] No.37003610[source]▶
> We already see the first attempts - Death Stranding will be available natively on M1 Macs.

We see those first steps every year, Apple always has some big developer showing a game running on the Mac and then nothing relevant actually happens beyond that.

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2. tomtom1337 ◴[06 Aug 23 07:39 UTC] No.37019778[source]▶
Agreed. Death Stranding was released for Windows over three years ago. A better example might be Larian Studios releasing Baldur’s Gate 3 natively from the beginning of early access.