The Argument for Overwatch 2 on macOS
- Widens the audience
- Overwatch on Mac would have little to no competition since there are no titles in the same genre to compete against
- The lack of competitive multiplayer games available on Mac suggests that Overwatch would satisfy a demand as it would fill a gap in the market
- More players means more microtransactions purchased
- Apple users likely to have disposable income which suggests profitability
- Even the lowest end Apple Silicon models would be capable of running OW2 with excellent performance
- Mac computers have increasingly gamer-centric feature sets with newer silicon
- Metal API is a robust modern framework for the port
- Much of the porting work could be automated via GPTK
- Battle.net launcher is already available on macOS with a pre-existing Mac audience for Blizzard games such as World of Warcraft
- Cloud gaming isn’t a solution to everyone as not everyone has a reliable connection
- Future mergers - Microsoft would be able to point towards Overwatch’s availability on Mac as an evidence of their commitment to bringing games to more platforms
