Claims of Apple Games Just PR Fluff?

GameSetWatch is running an editorial written by Alex Handy, the former editor of Game Developer magazine and a well respected figure in the games journalism business. Today he's discussing the recent show of support from EA and id Software for the Apple platform, essentially saying that he doesn't think much of it because it's all been said before. "We've been here before. I've been here before. Waaaaaaaay back in 1999, id was right there at MacWorld, with Carmack talking about how rad the OS was, and demanding that a multi-button mouse arrive. And this was Mac OS 9! People applauded. Those, like myself, who covered the Macintosh gaming world for a living saw a bright future ahead. EA wasn't there, but Activision was, and Aspyr was bringing Madden to the Mac anyway. MacSoft was bringing Unreal Tournament over, and StarCraft was still on the Mac, and still kicking ass. And then, nothing happened. There was a little while there when Mac game companies were expanding, and the best PC to Mac game porting house, Westlake Interactive, was barely able to keep up with all the demand for its services ... By 2001, the brief flash that was the Mac game boom was gone."

Comments

Hm...

[snowgirl]

Well, Macs run World of Warcraft... considering with that alone we've just covered about 90% of the gaming time spent online, are Macs really behind?

Re:The difference between you and us

[Anonymous Coward]

No one cares, because Mac users don't suffer the kind of desperate, crushing loneliness that drives you PC users to video games in the first place.

And yet the same copy-pasta from SA/4Chan still somehow manages to make it onto /. Way to get out of the basement and LIVE!

Re:The difference between you and us

[mbessey]

"I enjoy shooting my friends. If I were to do that IRL I would have many less friends and probably a jail sentence."

Given the average level of "skill" I see from most online game players, I'd guess that your friends would be in no real danger. Without an aimbot and unlimited ammo, most gamers couldn't hit the side of a barn, from inside.

Re:Not built for games

[Greyfox]

Especially if actually USING the card causes your system to BURST INTO FLAMES. OK it doesn't do that but for a while there it was crashing so much I thought I was using Windows!