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Comment by VCFundedGenYer | Hacker News Reader

Apple does this thing where they pick a very old game and then boast about how well it runs. It's so bizarre.

Not like Mac gaming is good anyway...they have "Game Porting Toolkit" but it's not free and open like Proton so nobody will use it unless Apple pushes them. Removing Rosetta doesn't help either.

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In fairness, Cyberpunk 2077 might be 5 years old but it is the modern day "Can it run Crysis". It is absolutely still a hard game to run.

In fairness, Cyberpunk 2077 is playable through Wine translation on a $400 base model Steam Deck.

The game gets a bad rap for the last-gen console performance, but even 2020's iGPUs could handle it: https://youtu.be/oUm5GmJcBPA

The cheapest Steam Deck available now is $789.

You don't need the Deck. The linked video is a random AMD laptop iGPU.

Also "will it run Minecraft with shaders"

Apple also just can't give up the idea of selling games through the AppStore either and you end up with situations like with AC: Shadows where it was ported, but you must buy the macport via the app store. Your copy on steam does not include the mac port, so if you wan to play on both your Windows/Linux desktop and Mac, you have to buy it twice. So stupid.

Cyberpunk isn't old to macOS, they just released the native version a few months ago.

> Game Porting Toolkit" but it's not free and open like Proton so nobody will use it unless Apple pushes them.

I don't know what this means - game porting toolkit is free

Cyberpunk is THE PC benchmark game since it released

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