Taimur Asad on December 30, 2023, 8:38 pm

Apple Working On High-End Mac Gaming

If a new interview with Apple employees is anything to go by, it seems like Apple has new renewed focus on high-end Mac gaming.

The push for this comes hot on the heels of Apple finally completing the transition of its entire Mac lineup from Intel processors to its in-house Apple Silicon-based processors.

In an interview conducted by Raymond Wong at Inverse, Apple has provided an exclusive glimpse into its efforts to transform the Mac into a robust gaming platform. This interview coincides with Apple’s significant focus on gaming across the Mac and iPhone throughout the year.

Mac product marketing manager at Apple, Gordon Keppel, said following about how Apple Silicon has changed the game:

“Apple silicon has changed all that,” Keppel tells Inverse. “Now, every Mac that ships with Apple silicon can play AAA games pretty fantastically. Apple silicon has been transformative of our mainstream systems that got tremendous boosts in graphics with M1, M2, and now with M3.”

In addition to this, Leland Martin, a software marketing manager at Apple, elaborated on how Apple has already seen a boost in interest from developers thanks to the recently released Game Porting Toolkit:

“Apple silicon has changed all that,” Keppel tells Inverse. “Now, every Mac that ships with Apple silicon can play AAA games pretty fantastically. Apple silicon has been transformative of our mainstream systems that got tremendous boosts in graphics with M1, M2, and now with M3.”

If you look at the Mac lineup just a few years ago, there was a mix of both integrated and discrete GPUs. That can add complexity when you’re developing games. Because you have multiple different hardware permutations to consider.

Today, we’ve effectively eliminated that completely with Apple silicon, creating a unified gaming platform now across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Once a game is designed for one platform, it’s a straightforward process to bring it to the other two. We’re seeing this play out with games like Resident Evil Village that launched first [on Mac] followed by iPhone and iPad.

It’s important to note that Apple already showed a lot of interested in gaming this year by launching dedicated gaming mode in macOS Sonoma, as well as promised bringing AAA gaming titles to iPhone 15 Pro lineup, starting with Resident Evil 4, with more AAA titles coming in 2024.

The full interview at Inverse can be read here.