No Man's Sky coming for Mac (& iPad)

[nef601]

As kicked off by Tim Apple at WWDC yesterday, No Man's Sky is coming for Apple Silicon Macs (and iPads) later this year. Details in the Apple press release (and elsewhere by now, I shouldn't wonder).

Better late than never, eh?

[Gotrek]

You missed two , EA’s GRID Legends and Capcom’s Resident Evil Village are coming to macOS too

[Janichsan]

…(and elsewhere by now, I shouldn't wonder).

*checks Polygon* Nope.

*checks Gamespot* Nope.

*checks Kotaku* Nope.

*checks GiantBomb* Nope.

*checks Heise (German site)* Nope.

*checks Macrumors* Half a sentence.

As usual, Mac gaming news are met with deafing silence.

Also, if I may add this as an afterthought, the fact that Macs are only now eventually capable of running a six year old game which by now is playable on every last and current generation platform – including the Nintendo Switch – sounds a lot less impressive from an outside perspective and rather serves as a reminder how far behind Apple is when it comes to gaming.

[UmarOMC1]

Village is on sale, 50% off on Steam…but I wonder if Apple will have a timed MAS exclusivity for the macOS release

[Camper-Hunter]

Also, if I may add this as an afterthought, the fact that Macs are only now eventually capable of running a six year old game which by now is playable on every last and current generation platform – including the Nintendo Switch – sounds a lot less impressive from an outside perspective and rather serves as a reminder how far behind Apple is when it comes to gaming.

To be fair, Resident Evil Village and GRID Legends are newer (1 year old for the former, 4 months for the latter). But I lost count of the times (well actually there weren't that many...) when Apple announced a new era of Mac gaming, then quickly forgot. I bet this won't be different this time.

[Janichsan]

But I lost count of the times (well actually there weren't that many...) when Apple announced a new era of Mac gaming, then quickly forgot. I bet this won't be different this time.

Agreed.

Bungie, id, EA, and (now ironically) Epic all stepped onto that stage in the past and waxed poetic how great Macs and Apple's technologies are for games. Now it's Capcom's turn.

[Frigidman]

Bump.

Actually saw the mention in their update today for "WAYPOINT"... and I thought "these guys must be bored... doing a macOS port now".

[nef601]

Well, it's released for Macs, apparently.

From The Verge article, NMS is available for Macs on Steam now (£49.99 in the UK, free if you own the PC version), and coming to the MAS 'soon'. Apple Silicon preferred, but it'll run on an i5.

Party like it's 2016 folks!

[Frigidman]

And since its SteamPlay on steam... yes, the wingamestore has it on sale.

https://www.wingames.../product/11411/

We will be adding it over on MacGameStore too when we get confirmation on steamplay. It wasn't ported by Feral, so chances are the windows keys work just fine for mac install like normal publishers do.

[Matt Diamond]

From their Twitter feed, "another surprise in the VERY near future" is coming from studio Hello Games. Smart money is on Apple VR headset support.

(We've also seen a hint that Beat Saber will also be announced for Apple VR.)

[nef601]

From their Twitter feed, "another surprise in the VERY near future" is coming from studio Hello Games. Smart money is on Apple VR headset support.

(We've also seen a hint that Beat Saber will also be announced for Apple VR.)

That could be a reassuringly expensive way to play!

[Frigidman]

That could be a reassuringly expensive way to play!

Yeah, I got $5k for a VR headset in my back pocket... let me just... oh, nope, no I don't.

[Janichsan]

For what it's worth: I have the game running at ~80 fps at high settings preset and 1920x1200 on a 2023 14" MacBook Pro.

[nef601]

For what it's worth: I have the game running at ~80 fps at high settings preset and 1920x1200 on a 2023 14" MacBook Pro.

I'm hopeful that it'll run tolerably well on an M1 mini. (I have a high pain threshold).

[Janichsan]

For what it's worth: I have the game running at ~80 fps at high settings preset and 1920x1200 on a 2023 14" MacBook Pro.

I wanted to compare that performance with my almost three year old Razer Blade 15 with a RTX 2070, but I can't get usable data: under Windows, the game seems to be hard-capped at 60 fps for me, and I can't find any reason for that. The in-game max framerate is set to 120, and there doesn't seem to be any other vsync active driver-side or anywhere else.

As the game runs completely solid at 60 fps under Windows, there's clearly performance to spare and higher framerates should be possible.

So far, I can only say the game performance is roughly comparable on my MacBook and my Windows laptop.

[nef601]

Has the game appeared in the US Mac app store yet? Still waiting in the UK.