Apple has a plan to fix Mac gaming — but will it work?

If you're a gamer, there's one truth that appears to be self-evident: Macs are not good gaming machines. A new interview, however, suggests Apple wants to turn that received wisdom on its head. When TechCrunch's Matthew Panzarino sat down with Apple's vice president of Platform Architecture and Hardware Technologies Tim Millet and the company's VP of Worldwide Product Marketing Bob Borchers, he asked what Apple was doing to improve the situation for Mac gamers. Their answers shed plenty of light on the ways Apple sees the future of gaming on its platforms. For one thing, Millet said Apple understands the challenge it faces in convincing gamers to switch to its systems: "Gamers are a serious bunch. And I don't think we're going to fool anybody by saying that overnight we're going to make Mac a great gaming platform. We're going to take a long view on this." To do that, Millet explained that Apple is trying to make it as simple as possible for developers to port their games onto macOS by improving its own Metal graphical API. If developers have a ready-made API that supports everything modern gaming needs, porting games to the Mac will seem more attractive. That's… Read full this story

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