During WWDC, Apple and Capcom revealed that Resident Evil Village will also be released for the Mac later this year.

Masaru Ijuin, head of Capcom‘s advanced technical research department, spoke about the Mac version at WWDC. According to Ijuin, the game can run at 1080p on a MacBook Air M2, while a Mac Studio can support up to 4K.

We welcome this development, as Apple computer owners have rarely been able to enjoy playing current games natively in the past. Typically, Mac owners have to install Windows on their devices, via Bootcamp for example, to launch games via Steam. It’s worth noting that Resident Evil Village can technically already be played on Mac devices via Google Stadia today. But the release for Mac is being pushed back a bit.

The announcement was part of a larger gaming focus at WWDC this year. During the show, Apple announced new details about the Metal software that will be used in Apple products and upgraded to Metal 3. It will support MetalFX upscaling, which renders smaller and less intense frames and then upscales them. Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky will be one of the first games to support MetalFX Upscaling when it is also released for the Mac later this year. Performance-wise, with the new M1 and M2 processors and the very strong integrated graphics chips, developers have actually had no reason not to implement games for macOS since the release of the first Apple Silicon chips. In the past, this was usually justified by the fact that Apple devices were not that widespread and were often used for professional work. But with the introduction of the very strong own processors in the consumer, pro and studio devices, this should no longer be an argument.

We are curious to see if and how Apple manages to convince more and more game developers to use the Mac.

The release of Resident Evil Village on the Mac is the latest in a long line of updates and developments for the critically acclaimed horror game. Last week, Sony announced that Resident Evil Village would also receive PlayStation VR2 support for its PlayStation 5 version. The game was first released on May 7, 2021 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Google Stadia. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)