Why Apple Should Port Games

DanTheMan writes "For every great game there is for Mac OS X, there are at least two for Windows. It's sad, but it's a fact. This article proposes a solution, and it's for Apple to port games. By the way, since the XBox 2 will use the PowerPC G5, it shouldn't be that difficult to port future XBox games to the Power Mac G5 and the iMac, both of which are 64-bit now. Would you buy a Mac if you could play Counterstrike Source and Half-Life 2? What other games are missing from Mac OS X?"

Re:Porting isn't that easy

[The-Bus]

Well, luckily since it is a 64-bit architecture it should be no problem to run Nintendo 64 games either. Let me just solder Mario 64 to my motherboard. See, I'll sohw you, it's easy, just take the game and put it here and the---- //NO CARRIER

Would I buy one?

[baryon351]

Would you buy a Mac if you could play Counterstrike Source and Half-Life 2?

No, I already bought a mac for its existing great games. I've nearly completed Photoshop CS. The end guy is hard.

Easy to port?

[minus9]

"By the way, since the XBox 2 will use the PowerPC G5, it shouldn't be that difficult to port future XBox games to the Power Mac G5 and the iMac, both of which are 64-bit now."

My Cisco PIX firewall runs an Intel Pentium, I think porting PC games to it would be still be fairly tricky. Anyone want to lend a hand showing me how to overclock a serial port?

Re:exhibit "A"

[Chundra]

But for that extra $1000 you get to become a member of the mac culture and *that*, my friend, is priceless.

Viva la mac!

Re:had to be said...

[CountBrass]

I know, my dual proc G5 PowerMac is just *so* underpowered. Frankly I'm surprised that I can even boot my machine up before it's time to go to bed.

Re:Porting isn't that easy

[HeghmoH]

Because slashdot is filled with idiots who think they know everything about programming, even though the largest project they've ever done is a 100-line perl script to scrape porn off the web.

MCSE

[El_Muerte_TDS]

What other games are missing from Mac OS X?

For my job I need:

• minesweeper
• solitaire

Re:yesterday's battle

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you can forget about games for PCs or Macs, as that whole market will soon be irrelevant. Gaming is all about consoles and mobile platforms nowadays.

Yes, thank you! I remember seeing the same thing 15 years ago, will these people never learn? The personal computer as a gaming platform is obsolete!

PS: Also I hear that BSD dying.

Re:Windows?

[Mr. No Skills]

This is really unfair flaming. I've been using Windows ME ever since I bought a Dell box 4 years ago. I have never seen a BSOD. It locks up randomly without a BSOD. I believe its a feature to remind you to save your documents frequently.

Re:Porting isn't that easy

[-noefordeg-]

Can I have that script?...

For evaluation only, nothing else *cough*

Re:macs..

[DavidLeblond]

So a computer that doesn't play games = a low end typewriter?

Look at it this way... you can spend $2500 on a respectable gameing PC or you can spend $1700 on a decent Mac and $150 on a PS2. Then you have a decent computer, a decent game system, and $650 to spare. :P

Re:Superior? At what?

[Triv]

(Grammar Nazi Alert)

see, when apostrophes get outta control like that ("I really like mac's") I can't help but want to put a noun in to finish out the sentence. "I really like Mac's COCK" was the first one to come to mind.

(and I was willing to just let it go as a typo, but ya did it twice, and "Mac's COCK prices are just too high" was just too good.)

I find any discount Scottish pornography, I'll let you know.

Triv

Re:The future...

[Avumede]

I'm sure this has already occurred to you, but whether you buy an Apple or not will have no appreciable effect on long-term market dynamics.

Re:No because...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not just no good open-source drivers, but lack of any good drivers period. nV users flame away, ATi users heartily agree, as so forth.

Re:No because...

[goatan]

The question therefore is that if this were the case, and the games available on both platforms were the same, would you switch from using Windows to getting a Mac?

I would swap OS from say windows to Linux but I don't see the point I swapping hardware it costs too much. Macs (sadly) are for the rich and the fashionable

Why would I let more games stop me?

[mrmez]

Just because they're available doesn't mean I need to waste my time on them. Heck, I'd still buy a Mac even if Visual Studio.Net were available for Macs. In fact, I recently bought a Mac even though M$ has been distributing them with NT for XBox2 development.

Re:Porting isn't that easy

[autocracy]

No. RTFM. (and... I have to expand on it to say "The Fucking Manual" and make the connection between that and porn becuase everybody's just gonna skip the joke below the surface. But now it's explained and not funny. *sigh*)

Executive Summary to All the Posts in this Thread

[Ohreally_factor]

Yes it is.
No it isn't.
Yes it is, you douche.
No it isn't you, cock-smoker.
Yes it is, you retard.
No it isn't, you sphincter pimple.

Repeat endlessly.