The latest Mac to the gaming market should be when Steve Jobs just returned to Apple to reorganized the Mac product line.
At that time, Jobs said that they had "initiated a new plan" to bring the game back to Mac, and firmly said, "gaming are very great."
And on Macworld in 1999, a high-profile demonstration of Halo (Halo), which is about to be launched on Mac and produced by Bungie Studio.
Jobs has high hopes for this masterpiece, just like introducing Apple's products, saying that Halo will be the coolest game.
However, Halo later became an exclusive game of Microsoft Xbox, which directly promoted Microsoft Xbox to become one of the "three majors" in the current game console market.
The Mac passed by the "game" and there was no "highlight".
Until M1 appeared.
A few days ago, game developer Feral Interactive ported two of his games, Total War: Rome Remake and Total Warhammer 3, to the Mac in the M1 series.
This is also one of the few game development teams that actively ported games to the Mac platform. In the Intel era, Feral Interactive actively migrated many games to the Mac platform.
Adapting games to Mac is experienced.
In an interview, Ferral Interactive said bluntly that the powerful performance of Apple's M1 chip combined with the Metal API has greatly improved game development on the Mac platform.
The development team of Feral Interactive is very optimistic about the game prospects of moving to the Mac platform with self-developed chips, and believes that Mac will have new opportunities in the gaming market.
With this understanding, Mac is getting closer to the gaming market again.
It's just that today is different from the past. It's a pity that the Mac platform lost Halo before, and this M1 Mac missed the "time".