Comments on: Intel, market share growth ‘hugely beneficial’ to Mac gaming market

By: Si Optik

Si Optik — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:50:56 +0000

Having been a massive fan of games and online gaming for over seven years using a Windows based machine, I’d love Apple to get into the gaming market. I think that with the reliability and power of a Mac, the realms of gaming are endless for Apple to take control of the game based pc platform industry, with Mac potentialy becoming the gamers choice of machine.

Microsoft still have a sector within the gaming industry with their 360 console. Apple seem to be missing the opportunity to take a section of the gaming industry away from Microsoft by supporting game coders developing games for the Mac OS.

I am a music producer who is making the move to Apple, the professionals choice of platform for stable, reliable and powerful application handling. I still have to own a damn Windows based machine so I can continue gaming, come on Apple, make the move - I am.

By: Saum

Saum — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:29:14 +0000

Possibly, but the largest segment that is playing in a professional role involves PC games. The monetary rewards far outweigh that of the console market when it comes to LAN competitions. Also, the PC gaming arena is aiming to become a spectator sport.

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Mon, 28 May 2007 00:48:01 +0000

Nowadays, don’t most young people who play games use a Wii, XBox, or other gaming console?

By: Saum

Saum — Fri, 25 May 2007 21:11:59 +0000

What the people pushing for more games on the OS X platform should do is forget about most of the low-end users and aim for the high-performance spec’d computers such as the MacBook Pros,iMacs, and Mac Pros. Development companies should cater directly towards the growing niche market of eSports and attempt to gain support from such developing companies as Sierra.

Supporters should show that the OS X computers can outperform their XP-based cousins and more gamers - who are the youngest “high-rollers” - will “convert.”

New games that are just starting to enter into development and that already have much media attention is what Mac-supporters should be aiming to cater to in the realm of gaming.

The game Severity that has only entered into development and is going to be the first game especially made for competitive gaming and would be the optimum choice for Mac-supporters to push for intel interoperability.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:36:47 +0000

I never really played any mac games natively, just usually the same game on my Bootcamp partition as its windows version runs much, much smoother than a ported version.

By: sjmills

sjmills — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:04:45 +0000

Then why has there been such a drought of decent Mac games? The last decent thing I bought was Call of Duty 2. Before that, there was a steady stream of good shooters, just enough that there was something else to buy when the previous game finally got boring. What about racing games? Total Immersion Racing for lifelike racing and Ford Racing II for arcade racing. That was a long time ago. Since then, nothing. Tried the Star Wars: Empire at War demo. Boring. At least Starcraft 2 has been announced (doesn’t look like much of an update). That will pass some time until another good shooter or racing game comes along.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:35:37 +0000

No. No game is good enough to make me suffer through windoze, even if it’s running on my Mac.