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I would make a review thread but it seems like reviewers just started playing, so there aren't many yet.

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[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 93 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Hardly any mention of this from Apple or their associated media, despite the fact that an AAA game launching a Mac port on day 1 is virtually unheard-of in 2023.

[–] Jarmer@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

outside of Apple arcade, I don't think Apple cares one iota about gaming. As evidenced by your observation. It's a huge market to miss, but they don't really seem to care. All they keep doing is adding old mobile remakes of games everyone has played before to their Arcade subscription nobody would ever pay for if it wasn't bundled into Apple one..

[–] Zaveno@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They made a big deal about the latest Resident Evil and Death Stranding both coming to Mac at WWDC last year and this year

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just checked DS and it doesn't seem to been compatible according to Steam (M2 MacBook Air).

[–] SageWaterDragon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They've been investing way more in gaming lately, but I imagine their long-term plan involves setting up Apple Arcade as a premium brand for high-end titles in a way that might be undermined by promoting their "competition" now. Like if Apple promoted a lot of shows that were available on iTunes shortly before launching Apple TV+. No idea, though, I'm just wildly speculating.

[–] Jarmer@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know, they are focusing a ton right now on re-releasing REALLY old mobile games, just with a plus symbol added to the name. That's polar opposite from premium high end titles. If they do want to go that direction they need to change course immediately!

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago

Announce to what gaming audience?

[–] cel922@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Except it’s not available on Mac on day one. Larian hasn’t even announced when it will be aside from “at a later date.”

Update: Apparently, the Steam Discussions page has a post that lists it as September 5.

[–] MKBandit@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Because it only launches today on PC to not compete with starfield. Other platforms are the original release date

[–] ObamaBinLaden@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What it runs on mac? What the fuck I'm never going to work again.

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep - M1 optimized too, so it actually runs well on Mac.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I assume that means the M2 Air is going to be just fine with it?

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

According to their listed requirements, yes. In practice, haven't tested myself but the M2 is a bit better performance-wise than their minimum card on Windows (a GTX 970, when the M2 is closer to a GTX 1060) so I imagine it'll work but not exactly with maxed-out settings.

[–] sgtlighttree@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

> Minimum

> GTX 970

I guess I really need to upgrade, huh?

It's nice that it's ARM native on launch tho, I think storage will be my only issue there (I opted for 256GB model because the storage upgrade is too expensive)