Too soon to say, it depends on how aggressive they want to be.. They might start slow and build up their library by paying for ports but after that they might go all out. They have the tremendous advantage that many people in the US already own Apple devices and buy new ones very frequently.
I’ve been wishing for Apple to get more serious about gaming, but not like this and I fear you might be right.:/ I’ve been following what happens with Apple Arcade games. Once they are there they stay there, don’t seem to be any time frame on deals. But some don’t seem to be exclusive and they come out on steam too. BUT not the Mac port. So me personally might get a real monkeys paw here, one I get Apple serious about games but in the exact way I don’t want too.
Just gave it a try, and on Windows it detects a bluetooth controller (8BitDo Pro 2) perfectly. Just need to switch the controls to using a Gamepad manually. It won't auto-detect.
Go see it anyway! It's amazing. I'll watch it again once it has a public release
I live relatively close to where that movie takes place.
They do some exclusivity stuff on Apple Arcade, like some games are only on there. But Im not sure how it exactly looks like, since some games do come out on steam for example at the same time but sometimes much later, and rarely not at all. It seem to be a lot up to the dev/pub just how they do it and sometimes it seems its just that dev and pub do different things, like a case where the dev took care of steam version and pub of the Mac version and that's why steam didn't get the Mac port.
I don’t think Apple Arcade has been terribly successful for them. Not a failure, but far from successful either. I think it being part of the One subscription keeps it alive.
They tried once with Pippin, but they failed.
Not really, if those are exclusive they would be MAC versions, PC versions wouldn't be affected per say. but people love to loose their minds for no reason.
Mac versions will go to Mac Store, yes, and my guess is that there will be some sort of exclusivity for some time, but that's about it? I guess it all depends on what kind of deal they have with mac versions.
This is pretty much what I’m thinking. Yeah, it kinda sucks for Steam users on Apple devices, but Valve have basically abandoned Mac at this point so I think we all saw this coming.
Pretty much this.
The answer was in the rest of the sentence. I can get a Mac mini for the price of a PC GPU alone, and I do prefer to do daily life and productivity on Macs.
Okay, well, you are missing out on the biggst video game library without a PC.
I do still have a steam deck and a Xbox, I’m not lacking in games to play. Doesn’t mean I don’t want to be able to play games on my Mac too.
Well the Xbox is missing out out on a ton of games in general (due to it's lack of worldwide marketshare) even though the Xbox team has done progress in that area and I think it's gonna get worse with time due to the weaker Series S. The Steam Deck is great, but mainly for indies and AA games and perhaps certain AAA games.
There was a rumor that in the upcoming event (tomorrow I think) there will be some "big" AAA game.
Valve killed Counter-Strike 2 support on Mac. I wouldn't count on them being stewards of Apple gaming anytime soon.
Tim Sweeney's head would explode.
Read this somewhere, but basically:
One thing I do on the deck as a last resort when I encounter this issue and can't get the controller to function normally, is to to remap the keyboard commands in-game in a way that makes the prompts less confusing i.e. assigning the letters a,b,x,y on the keyboard to the functions that I would later remap to a,b,x,y buttons on the deck via Steam Input. I'd do this for all the buttons on the deck controller and try to find a compromise on the buttons that can't be mirrored on the keyboard's keys 1 to 1. I recently had to do this for One Piece Unlimited World Red since the camera just keeps spinning when choosing the "controller" to control the game. Another game that I encountered this issue with is the first Psychonauts as well. It means that I miss out on analog movement sadly but at least the game is playable on the deck this way!
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It's the new Monster Hunter, there should be an event for the 20th anniversary for the announcementCapcom still has a "major unannounced" game to release before March 2024
Capcom is teasing a "major unannounced title" for 2024. Although the developer/publisher has yet to even announce what …
If they’re planning on releasing it in this fiscal year they’re either going to announce it at the Apple event on monday (doubt it but who knows with capcom) or TGA in December and release it on the anniversary in March.
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I installed a second little monitor for streaming to take chat control and how things are running. It looks pretty nice, for less than 40€ with base and frame (on AliExpress). I've bought two 90º ultra slim HDMI and USB to save the up-zone connections those from Amazon.
This WAS what proton was, but it was later swapped to Linux only removing any and all macOS code/references
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It wasn't swapped to Linux, Linux was always the star of the show, and macOS support hinged on the ill-fated moltenVK project which Valve later abandoned, as it was too much work to make it work. Unless Apple start supporting vulkan, I don't see them ever being serious about gaming support.This WAS what proton was, but it was later swapped to Linux only removing any and all macOS code/references
That ship has sailed and has sunk.
Remove macOS support · ValveSoftware/Proton@a841204
Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components - Remove macOS support · ValveSoftware/Proton@a841204
how is that any different from what I said and how that does change in any capacity the fact that is 100% dead?
When you wrote "swapped to Linux only", I read that as meaning that Proton was primarily targeting macOS, and that it swapped targets to Linux. If that's not what you meant ,then I misread you.
Oh lol no, I meant the text description not the project xD
I finished Obra Dinn these last few days and thought it was amazing from start to finish. The first "shot" in the first memory you visit is a stroke of genius and the way it gradually opens up new chapters was very well done in order not to overwhelm the player. It's up there on the my personal list of best games I've ever played tbh, possibly top 5.
The reason why I don't like the beginning is that I kept thinking whether I was wasting my time looking for clues in the current memory or not... Once everything was opened up, I felt I could really begin the detective work and at that point I thought it was great.
