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.