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Let’s see:
- There is already Steam for Mac, which a great catalog and sales.
- The only appeal of an App Store game is cross-platform… in Apple devices.
- Consoles (with controls) are cheaper than any Apple product compatible with AAA games. (This includes the Steam Deck).
- There are no platform-selling exclusives.
- There is no exclusive hardware features.
- Major most-played games are not available OOTB: PUBG, Roblox, Rocket League, Genshin Impact, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, CSGO2.
Yeah, I get the sentiment: why. But Apple has to start with something, and if they want people to buy games they will need a bigger catalog, and for that they need to keep their porting tools easier to implement.
Capcom is on a row giving fans what they want and making millions from it. Compare that to Square Enix.
Well, the thing is that 3 years looks like “too long” but eventually the spec is held by the timeframe of having actual silicon. Even if it’s not 1 year or 2, at least is not 5 or 7.
That’s probably the problem of standards. Everyone has to agree to a new spec, instead of a company offering double the PCI Express bandwidth and latency that, low and behold, only works on their hardware and will charge for royalties.
3 years look like a lot, but it’s cheaper than vendor lock-in, which everyone has afraid of since is in that moment your business is controlled by other business.
Common rule: AMD for Linux, NVIDIA for anything else.
I don’t think it’s a scam or a fraud (legally), but it’s really an undercooked assistant that is $170 too much.
I think that CZ has something, but eventually we will have to wait and let it cook, to check how the company (and maybe the device) are entangled with cryptos.