“Roadblocks” and “brick walls” say that the author believes Apple made things that way with an intention to keep them from writing their software. Hurdles - sure, things are different and it’s a challenge. “Even with all the hurdles, roadblocks and brick walls put in our way, we're finally back on Mac!” But as I got into it, it wasn’t just a list of “we faced x, y, and z challenges, and here’s how we overcame them.” It was “because Apple are jerks, they didn’t do everything exactly like everyone else.” For example, they say: I like hearing about technical challenges in graphics and overcoming them. I wrote it because I was interested in the project. Even when I had a “more suitable” computer, I didn’t feel the need to buy a super powerful graphics card just so I could play some games since there were so many good games that didn’t need that.

There are plenty of good and great games out there that don’t have such strict high requirements. Or are you conflating the concept of “interested in playing games” with the concept of “must play every brand new game”? I’m pretty sure there are plenty of people like me who are interested in gaming but feel no compulsion to play the newest hottest games that you need a top of the line graphics card just to be able to run. It’s clearly not every game, but it’s a lot of games (many gaming hours, if you look at it that way), especially when you consider there are many many games available that aren’t on that list and that some percentage of those other games are also supported. The Mac Gaming Wiki has a pretty big (but not exhaustive) list of M1 compatible games. There are lots of games available for the M1. I set up a few auto-refreshers on various store web sites and in a week or so ended up getting an order confirmed on one.

I can honestly say that Ryujinx sold me on the Switch as well, back in the summer of 2020 I saw some news posts about the development of the emulator, grabbed it and a copy of Mario Maker 2, and proceeded to play through the entire single player campaign in one sitting, which made me decide to get a real one so I could get online and get the user created content. When Nintendo announced the Switch Lite my immediate thought was how I'd love for them to do the exact opposite, give me a 'Switch Heavy' that trades the screen and battery out for a faster SoC that can do 1080p instead of 720p and builds in all the features from the fancy dock that comes with the OLED model It lives in its dock 99% of the time, only coming out when I go on vacation, and these days since I have a Steam Deck that will probably become 100% of the time. I'm not really a 'game on the go' guy, it's just the console I had to buy to play modern Mario and Metroid. To me, the Switch's portability is irrelevant. Everyone’s different, but to me it does not seem worth giving up the convenience of the Switch.

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