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The Mac as a gaming platform should have most of the advantages of PC's and consoles: The advantage of consoles are standardized hardware, and the advantages of
by mlinsey 19y ago
The Mac as a gaming platform should have most of the advantages of PC's and consoles: The advantage of consoles are standardized hardware, and the advantages of a PC are the openness and not having to pay royalties or operate at the whim of the console manufacturer. (Sony, MS, and Nintendo exert even more control over console game developers than Apple does with the iPhone)
Of course, the high cost of Macs and the lack of intersection between the gamer and Mac demographics has kept all of the medium-sized game developers away; only the very smallest developers (eg shareware writers) and the very largest developers (EA, Blizzard) bother to pay attention to the platform.
- wanorris 19y ago> The advantage of consoles are standardized hardware One central part of this is that any given console has a particular GPU that you can optimize the crap out of. Even Apple has many more than that over a 2-3 year period. Honestly, I can't imagine Apple bothering to go after the gaming market unless they can find a way to collect royalties on the games. Jobs goes after markets only when there are profits to be had.