Mac Owners Got Apple Arcade, But Lost 32-Bit Games
This week Apple released Catalina, the newest version of macOS. With it, Apple Arcade appeared on Mac, but 32-bit support disappeared.
Apple has published a detailed list of innovations on its website. We will highlight two related to games.
Now there is an Apple Arcade on Mac…
Recall that this is a subscription service with premium games without ads and in-game purchases. It was launched on September 19 only on iOS (macOS support was promised to be added later).
For Mac users, Apple Arcade is presented as a section of the Mac App Store. In the App Store for iOS devices, the service has a similar format.
Mac owners can play the service titles using the keyboard, trackpad and mouse. Although some games support controllers for Xbox and PS4.
A monthly subscription to the service costs 199 rubles.
…but there is no support for 32-bit games.
With the release of Catalina, Mac stopped supporting 32-bit applications — including games. This is reported by Gamasutra.
Developers of 32-bit games are recommended to transfer them to the 64-bit version. Otherwise, they will no longer run on Mac devices.
According to Rock Paper Shotgun, some developers (Aspyr, Feral Interactive, etc.) decided to port some 32-bit projects to 64-bit. But a number of igrodelov believes that the gaming audience on Mac is quite small and the difficulties with switching to the 64-bit version are not worth it.
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