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Background: In the 80s and early 90s, Apple had a pretty good mark in the PC gaming world, mostly on the Apple II, but the Mac also had a growing number of titles and new developers like Bungie were popping up every where. As the 90s went on, Apple began running into issue after issue, they're user base fell, and the markets were collapsing. Most major industries left, including games. In 1999, at Macworld, Steve Jobs tried to convince people the Mac was a good gaming platform, they got Bungie to demo Halo on the new opengl platform... but then 6 months later they were picked up by Microsoft. The game market stayed stagnate at a very small percentage for years after that, until 2007 with EA announcing the return to the Mac. Since then many have come back, and new ones like Valve have come to play. At this point, as the market continues to flourish a bit, are you starting to think of Mac OS X as a viable platform? Do you think it ever will be? Or do you think Windows will always be king? |
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Yes, epically because Steam is now for Mac, people now have a platform that they can game on besides Windows. This now opens up more possibilities for people to game on. Who knows who is next after Steam. |
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All Mac OS needs is support for common runtimes (vbrun*, .NET, etc.) and AppleX. This is a term I just totally made up and would be a total ripoff of DirectX. But not DirectX itself for legal/licensing reasons and because the whole platform would need to be rewritten. Face it, games run better on DirectX. Why? Because Microsoft got a stranglehold in hardware integration. And it worked. |
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well, yes and no. mac has good graphics and has good response time, yet windows has more of a varity of games. |
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I believe the Mac is a wonderful gaming platform. And if developers feel the need to be really lazy, they can do what they did with The Sims 3 and just inject an instance of Wine into the game to run it. Seriously folks, look in the deep files of The Sims 3 and it is all Windows-based folder structures, and it even runs the process Wine. No joke. They were really lazy on that one. Or developers can take the time to actually code it for the Mac and it will be a wonderful game. I think the Mac is ready for games. Developers just need to take the stride in coding their games to run on it. |
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Macs have always been a viable gaming platform. However it's small market share has kept developers away. Not any more... Steam,,, Things like .NET and VB are some of thevreasons why Windoze sucks, so I would hate to see a Macs wrecked with that junk. |
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I think that Mac has always been a viable platform since it hit Intel CPUs, as code became more compatible, and technologies such as WINE became more viable. Because of this, ports became incredibly easier, through software such as Transgaming's Cider. What really set off the inclusion of Mac in the gaming word is the increased use of Macs, in part due to the increased use of the iPhone OS, which uses Objective-C and Cocoa. With the adoption of the iPhone as a viable market, developers became familiar to Apple programming languages, and Mac OS X became less of an alien platform. |
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I think they could, thought i dont think people would buy macs for gaming..It depends how you look at it |
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In my view windows will stay king until apple lets macos be installed on non-apple hardware such has custom gaming pc's that run windows, until this easy and cheap way to swap out parts and custom cases comes to the macos. It will not attract gamers from there gaming pcs. |
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well, I think it has been a viable gaming platform for ages and still is... |
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I believe the Mac still has a long ways to go, it's always one small step after the other. I do believe at this current rate, it can eventually be a strong competitor to Windows. It takes more than having a library of games however, to really connect with hardcore gamers, the hardware needs to be there. The Mac Pro is great, but Apple needs a smaller cheaper tower and the 3rd party video card market needs to grow larger. |
