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Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac to Justify It (www.macrumors.com)

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[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, metal offered significant improvements over opengl when it released, but now that vulkan exists apple doesn’t have any more excuses.

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't disagree - I don't own Apple products, and I very much would prefer if all games also dropped DirectX.

But my point is that Metal didn't fail, and it's not "used in a minority of devices" and Apple isn't "crazy for thinking they would succeed with a new graphics API for games" because by all relevant metrics, dominance over mobile gaming is much more important.