Ehh, if you are going to game you are going to want the Pro at a minimum but honestly the mac gaming scene is still sparse. It all really comes down to what type of game you want to play I guess but even if all the games you want are on mac then I'd still say you want the fan in the MBP.

I’m still playing nearly decade old games. I just need some thing competitive in decade old gaming so that my wife and I can play together.

Not Apple then. They ditched 32 bit applications and in 2 years they'll ditch 64 bit x86 applications.

You want your old games to run forever, you sadly have to do that on x86 Windows (or maybe Linux with more or less of a headache setting them up).

Agree 100%. If you wouldn't buy an iPad to play your games, don't buy a Mac to play those games either. Unless by "games" you literally just mean WoW, which seems to be one of the only major cross platform games that seriously cares about Mac support.

Personally, I would lean towards suggesting the purchase of a console. The new generation has some really nice consoles, and the Nintendo Switch is still really fun in other ways.

Rosetta 1 was around for 5 years, so I expect Rosetta 2 to last at least that long, but that's still a good point. Thanks!

Rosetta 2 only runs 64 bit apps though. Or so they say. 32 bit apps were dropped with Catalina.

Incidentally, I'm still on Mojave because of that.