Apple and Gaming
Any Mac user knows very well that gaming options are very limited in OS X. 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. It's 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 OS X is a fantastic operating system and definitely the best I've used, but moving from Windows I had to take the loss of 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, OS X would pretty much be the perfect operating system.
Rhys Murphy Nov 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM in Apple, Gaming, Mac, Mac OS X, iPhone, iPods tagged Mac apple gaming games ipod touch iphone app
Reader Comments (3)
I'm am as well a Mac user and I have the MacBook Pro 17". On that I have Need for Speed wanted, COD 4 and most impertinently Age of Empires 3. Although selection may be limited, the games that you CAN get are fantastic and a joy to play. I also think apple should make an "app store" for the Mac operation system.
seriously? ^
@Christian DeSantis
An "app store" for OS X is kind of a stupid idea seeing as how projects like steam and direct2drive offer downloadable (and install based) gaming options for a lot of great games. An OS X app store would just be a spit in their faces and create more of an issue.
As far as gaming goes I have the latest CoD:MW2(steam), still enjoy Prototype, portal (steam), HLF2 (steam), Dawn of War (steam) and a few other games that I'm not willing to admit I play... It would be a dream come true if I could totally ditch the Windwoes side of my new 27" iMac and keep the truly magnificent OS X functionality (and more if they brought gaming into the picture) when I play games.