Any Mac user knows very well that gaming options are very limited in OSX.There is a very small amount of games on Mac OSX available.The few games that were designed natively being games such as The Sims series,World of Warcraft,etc and the games that were ported by aspire media such as Call of Duty 2,Call of Duty 4,Quake 4,etc don't add up to a large number of options available.
Despite the short number of mac games available,apple is dominating in the portable market with the iPod Touch and iPhone app store.It is very easy to find any caliber of game on the app store.Weather it be a short time wasting puzzle game,an in-depth RPG,or a fleshed-out racer the app store has it.
After apple's keynote this year,CEO Steve Jobs said himself that apple intend to market the iPod Touch as a gaming platform.Strange to see this choice by apple for their media player and not for their range of computers.Every new mac to some extent is capable of running a lot of modern games and it's not a good thing to see apple not taking this into consideration.
I am a Mac user and i feel that Mac OSX is a fantastic operating system and defiantly the best i've used but moving from windows i had to take the loss gaming.Sure i can still play Spore and World of Warcraft but i am missing the experience of playing Left 4 Dead,Team Fortress,Battlefield,Burnout,Unreal Tournament,Crysis,etc.Most of these games would run fine on an entry level Mac Mini,and run great on a higher level iMac.With an addition of steam to run on mac,OSX would pretty much be the perfect operating system.
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Ironically, there are 3rd party sources more dedicated to gaming on the Mac platform then Apple is. Cider is a great group of people who port PC games to the Mac and only run games that run seamlessly. I have Left 4 Dead and a whole bunch of Steam games running on Steam using Cider or CrossoverGames.
Sure, we don't get the same amount of hit PC games that the PC does, but it's still pretty impressive. EA has already shown lots of support for the Mac, so we'll be seeing many EA franchise games in the future (sports games, Battlefield, Sims, Command and Conquer, etc.)
If they want to be competitive, all they have to do is lower the entry price tag. That's all it'd take. If they're happy with the niche market and the producers who don't mind spending a few extra bucks to get the job done, well, so be it.
Much as I'd love to fuck around with a Mac on a regular basis (because they ARE pretty fun), it's not gonna happen until the price is a bit more realistic and it, by extension, garners more support. Paying that much money and having to essentially emulate Windows to use the tools and programs I use already on a PC, well. That's just thilly.
