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Comment by bearjaws | Hacker News Reader

All this focus on low power gaming makes me think Apple wants to get in on the Steam Deck hype.

Apple is in a reasonably good place to make gaming work for them.

Their hardware across the board is fairly powerful (definetly not top end), they have a good API stack especially with Metal. And they have systems at all levels including TV. If they were to just make a standard controller or just say "PS5 dualshock is our choice" they could have a nice little slice for themselves.

As I understand it, Apple has a long history of entitlement and burning bridges with every major game developer while making collaboration extremely painful. They were in a much better place to make gaming work 10 years ago when major gaming studios were still interested in working with them.

Just let me have JIT! My jailbroken iPad Pro can emulate Wii at 4k without getting warm. Unfortunately you have to hack around enabling JIT on newer ios releases.

You can use DualShocks on Apple TV or iPad games - it's supported. Of course on Mac as well

Until Apple-ported games are able to be installed from Steam instead of the App Store, you can count me out.

They better have a partnership with Sony in the works, then. Valve and Apple's approach to supporting video games diverged a decade ago. Hearing "Steam" and "Apple" uttered in the same breath is probably giving people panic attacks already.

They've been hyping up their hardware capabilities and APIs for years now.

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