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VCFundedGenYertoday at 2:57 PM4 repliesview on HN

Apple does this thing where they pick a very old game and then boast about how well it runs. It's so bizarre.

Not like Mac gaming is good anyway...they have "Game Porting Toolkit" but it's not free and open like Proton so nobody will use it unless Apple pushes them. Removing Rosetta doesn't help either.


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wpmtoday at 3:17 PM

In fairness, Cyberpunk 2077 might be 5 years old but it is the modern day "Can it run Crysis". It is absolutely still a hard game to run.

datakantoday at 3:34 PM

Cyberpunk isn't old to macOS, they just released the native version a few months ago.

thewebguydtoday at 3:14 PM

Apple also just can't give up the idea of selling games through the AppStore either and you end up with situations like with AC: Shadows where it was ported, but you must buy the macport via the app store. Your copy on steam does not include the mac port, so if you wan to play on both your Windows/Linux desktop and Mac, you have to buy it twice. So stupid.

mathisfun123today at 3:57 PM

> Game Porting Toolkit" but it's not free and open like Proton so nobody will use it unless Apple pushes them.

I don't know what this means - game porting toolkit is free