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The expansion of the more robust mobile gaming handheld sector. Systems like the ROG Ally and Steam Deck are an awesome new direction for gaming and I'm pumped to see that sector expand and mature.
I was considering pre-ordering an Ally, but the battery life on it is a little underwhelming. I know it's a similar capacity to that of the Steam Deck, but it packs way more computing power than what the Deck offers.
I wonder if they put such a small capacity battery in it so it'd weigh less than the Steam Deck. I know ASUS was citing it's weight as a selling point.
Just a crazy thought. Have you watched WWDC? The new development tools for conversion to native metal is so exciting. I was just thinking that I would totally buy a hypothetical M1 steam deck passively cooled huge battery. That’s s just a dream though haha.
Anything about porting games to Apple APIs is completely disinteresting to me. M1 is a great chip, but MacOS is a terrible OS (and I say that as I type on an M1 Mac Mini I use as a TV PC) especially where gaming is concerned.
Much more exciting IMO is the work being done for Asahi Linux. Getting the M1 to run proper OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan along with the work being done on Linux X86-on-ARM emulation (box64 and FEX) is a much more promising direction for gaming on M1. I hope we also see other ARM chips from other vendors with the same amount of computing and graphics performance that could actually find their way into gaming handhelds not owned by the worst company for consumer freedom in tech.
I haven't seen it but the shift to ARM for heavy computing really excites me from a mobile gaming standpoint. Do somewhat worry about how emulating all our existing game libraries on a new architecture is going to work though.
box64 and FEX Emulator are making big strides on the emulation front.