“My team spends a lot of time thinking about how to make sure that we’re staying on that API curve to make sure that we’re giving Metal what it needs to be a modern gaming API,” Millet said. In the TechCrunch interview, Tim Millet, Apple’s vice president of Platform Architecture and Hardware Technologies, said that his team was working closely with the company’s Metal engineers to ensure their APIs are as up to speed as possible for developers. And if Apple doesn’t provide the right support, that can be an unnecessarily complex process.įortunately, it seems like Apple is trying to make working with Metal as painless as it can be. This means developers have to tweak their games specifically to work with Metal if they want to bring their games to the Mac. Macs rely on Metal, Apple’s own graphics API, instead of DirectX, which the vast majority of PC games run on. There are also technical hurdles to overcome. Each factor helps to reinforce the other. Gamers look at the paltry number of AAA games on the Mac and decide to stick to Windows.

Developers look at the number of Mac gamers compared to PC gamers and decide the former is too small to justify the cost and effort of porting their games. So why aren’t big-name developers flocking to the Mac? Unfortunately, they suffer from a negatively spiraling gameplay loop, if you will. In other words, Apple’s Macs should be fantastic little gaming machines. And the audio output from even the cheapest Apple MacBook blows anything from rival PC laptops out of the water. The displays built into Apple’s laptops are unrivaled in their quality. Apple silicon chips are some of the fastest processors in the business. It doesn’t have to be this way - after all, modern Macs have great hardware. You can finally run Windows 11 natively on an Apple silicon Mac Your next MacBook Pro could be even faster than expected

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