I upgraded from my 15 year old PC to one of the new Mac Minis at Xmas last year, thinking that I would be fine for gaming with my Xbox / Game Pass, and I would "skip a generation" on PC hardware. I have a small Steam / Epic library, but everything that didn't work on MacOS, I had a Game Pass version of.

Fast forward a year. Xbox shit itself, RAM and GPU prices / 2026 outlook are dismal, etc etc

What's my best option going forward for gaming? The only option I see right now is cloud gaming like GeForceNOW, but it seems like such a ripoff.

Any advice?

Edit- a lot of people are fixating on GamePass. I canceled my GamePass sub when the price went up. I no longer have it.

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[–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

Some friends at work started up a patient-gamer-style Pokémon book club. It's been four months and we're almost done Pokémon Black/White (which may sound impressive except that we started with Pokémon Black/White)
My point is: there's basically an unlimited number of good games that run on old hardware. Not that retro Nintendo hardware is cheap these days, but if you've got some lying around...

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Not an unreasonable suggestion, the list of Mac compatible emulators is really impressive. Pretty much everything supports M1 Macs, even cutting edge emulators like ShadPS4 and Ryubing (PS4 + Switch emulators)

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