WWDC 2025 is near, and you can follow all the last -minute rumors on our WWDC Liveblog. But I have also received the last moment prediction to slip under the wire-or, more accurately, anti-predictions, because there is one thing I am practically making sure that we are not meeting in Apple’s major event.
Apple, where is the gaming content? It feels like every few years, you take a huge swing in the gaming field – with things like Apple Arcade, the new Metal 3 developer cut, or, ah … Death Standing Four years late in Macos? But clearly, it seems like a thought.
Let me be clear about it: the sports industry is more worth more than music and film industries Seat. You like money, okay, Apple? Here is a deep well of unused abilities, but I’m afraid that a handful of triple-a-titles are going to take more time than to bring. Oh, and you probably didn’t have tried to stop playing one of the world’s most famous sports from playing on your hardware.
Apple and Gaming: Oil and Water?
This is a strange thing. Apple products are available everywhere, apparently from iPhone to the best MacBox and Max. Hell, Apple has a lot of talk about MacBook Air’s ‘being the world’s best -selling laptop’ (this claim is required Little To correct the data. , But I’ll give it to Apple only once).
But there is no doubt between Apple users and the gamers, despite the large -scale van diagram overlap, the company is not interested in advancing gaming as a major feature of its products.
And they are products Absolutely worth gaming. New M4 chips – among other products, can be found in the latest 2025 MacBook Air – in fact it is very beautiful. Even the old M2 chip offered some commendable performance in our own Rolland Moore cooler’s recent gaming tests. There is no hardware problem here.
So, maybe the software problem? This is a fair claim: MacOS is not mostly an operating system of selection for non -console gamers, which Windows has the most recently consumer’s 95.45 % part Steam Hardware SurveyMost Divide between Windows 10 and 11. Comparison All, all the combined micos versions are up to 1.85 % overall.
It is difficult to deny that the gamers do not see McCows just as a viable platform for gaming, and by extension, developers do not see Macos as a viable platform for sports development. But the point here is: This is Apple’s fault.
To make a pledge
Look, Microsoft never turned away from the gaming space. The Xbox 360 was one of the most famous consoles of the recent decades, which is now available in the console of the rapidly popular game pass. And The PC, and Microsoft have long been added to the gaming features in Windows. Hell, the company also has fingers in the game development pie, in which the Xbox game studios have released several small giant teams in the past years.
Apple needs to do this, if it has any design to make itself related to the gaming market. My beautiful colleague Isaiah Williams said Apple should make a gaming handheld earlier this year – and when I agree, I don’t think it will solve the problem. Any amount of new hardware would like to play people on Apple products. The excellent gaming performance of the M4 chip proves that, clearly.
I have said before, and I will say it again: Apple needs to do Make a game actually. You are running Tim Cook, one of the world’s richest companies here. Some of these iPhone billions behind a established giant studio, making the MacOS game publishing division, and supplying the killer app that makes the gamers Want To buy Mac. If Apple wants people to believe that it is serious about gaming, we need to have big titles in Mac on the first day – or better, completely special.
We are not going to make this commitment on WWDC 2025, I suspect zero. Probably Cyberpank 2077 Finally, it will be found for the long wait (after the arrival of Nintendo Switch 2), but that’s the only thing I’m expecting here. However, I’m not losing hope. Tim, it will never be too late to put it in your mouth wherever your mouth is. I am sure we can afford to lose some of Apple TV origin.
