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Valve's Steam Machines may prove to be an interesting new business opportunity for these Mac porting houses - and hopefully the possibility of bringing games to
by danieldk 12y ago
Valve's Steam Machines may prove to be an interesting new business opportunity for these Mac porting houses - and hopefully the possibility of bringing games to not one, but two platforms, will mean yet more Mac ports as well.
I am not sure, I have never seen a Steam machine anywhere or anyone being interested in them. With the quickly growing power of ARM CPUs and GPUs, I think in a short time, an Android or iOS-power mediacenter will be enough for 90% of the people.
Of course, since Android uses OpenGL as well, it's probably good for Mac.
- adamors 12y agoSteam machines weren't released yet. Also, while mobile GPUs are definitely stronger than they were 10 years ago, they still have a lot more to go to even match the performance of a console. Not to mention top it/reach that of a PC.
- johnchristopher 12y agoParent stated "enough for 90% of people", not "enough for 90% of games".
- adamors 12y agoRead the previous sentence or the grand parent. The context is games.
- jeltz 12y agoI do not see why AAA PC game companies would care about what 90% of the people in the world think. What they care about is what gamers think, since those make up most of their customer base.
- Chronic28 12y agoThey care because ideas propagate.
- jaegerpicker 12y agoThe latest devices, using Metal and Android extensions certainly seem close to matching up with the WiiU, X-Box360, and ps3. I don't think they will match the ps4/XBone but the Unreal Engine/CryTech demos using those beta builds has been very impressive.