Comment How will that help ANYTHING? (Score 1) 848
First, let's take some facts:
1) PC's are cheaper
2) Hardware vendors target PC for performance upgrades
3) PC's are much cheaper to upgrade
4) Nearly all games target Windows
By having Apple port games, you face an uphill battle on point 4, and do nothing about 1-3. Sorry, but what's my incentive to switch?
Why on earth would someone switch to Mac for gaming, when it will take longer to get their games, they'll have to dump more into the system, then dump more into the upgrades (which will also come after they do on PC, and many won't come at all). All so they get to say "Hey look at me! I'm a sucker!"
I work in the gaming business (albiet in a fringe corner of it). We have access to over 2 million "hardcore" gamers - those that like to play competitively. I have a hard time believing you'll convert any with this idea - it's simply not practical.
If you want to convert people, get some great Mac-only games. There's a long way to go before anyone serious will do that. If Valve launched CS:S and HL2 on Mac exclusively, they've already got 1 foot in the grave.
PC makers are pushing hardware limits. How will Mac play games? Let's see a port of HL2 to Mac, and have the hardware guys go nuts. If a Mac can consistently beat a top-end PC in the typical game benchmarks, then it will get some buyers.
While I hope Apple becomes a gaming system some day... I'm quite skeptical that it will ever happen.
1) PC's are cheaper
2) Hardware vendors target PC for performance upgrades
3) PC's are much cheaper to upgrade
4) Nearly all games target Windows
By having Apple port games, you face an uphill battle on point 4, and do nothing about 1-3. Sorry, but what's my incentive to switch?
Why on earth would someone switch to Mac for gaming, when it will take longer to get their games, they'll have to dump more into the system, then dump more into the upgrades (which will also come after they do on PC, and many won't come at all). All so they get to say "Hey look at me! I'm a sucker!"
I work in the gaming business (albiet in a fringe corner of it). We have access to over 2 million "hardcore" gamers - those that like to play competitively. I have a hard time believing you'll convert any with this idea - it's simply not practical.
If you want to convert people, get some great Mac-only games. There's a long way to go before anyone serious will do that. If Valve launched CS:S and HL2 on Mac exclusively, they've already got 1 foot in the grave.
PC makers are pushing hardware limits. How will Mac play games? Let's see a port of HL2 to Mac, and have the hardware guys go nuts. If a Mac can consistently beat a top-end PC in the typical game benchmarks, then it will get some buyers.
While I hope Apple becomes a gaming system some day... I'm quite skeptical that it will ever happen.
