Why is the Apple game library so pathetic?

[Jreifler]

Sorry I had to say it. Is it that developers can't justify spending the money to develop for both platforms? It seems to me that my IMAC would be the perfect machine to play some of the newest games coming out. Ah well, there's always the Wii this Xmas.

[Viro]

Yes, the developers can't justify programming for more than one platform. The reason is that the Mac game market isn't as large as the Windows market.

This can be a good thing, as only the better games get ported over, since the porting companies know that they will stand a better chance of selling.

[fryke]

Sadly, that's not true either. There's still a lot of garbage being published. :/ Of course a "good game" is in the eye of the beholder. ... But I agree on the Wii. I personally think it's best to use a separate game console for video games. Not only because those actually _do_ get more titles than your Mac, but also because the games are made to fit the hardware they're going to be played on. In PC/Mac gaming, you'll suddenly find your hardware inadequate a year after you've bought the machine, because game developers seem to have the goal of bringing *ANY* graphics card to the ground as soon as it's on the market for a week.

If you truly want to play games on a Mac, there's an option, of course: You could install Windows XP through BootCamp and play the games in Windows. But then again, I'd prefer the game console option. A Windows license costs about as much as a decent game console, new games cost about the same for the consoles and PC.

[Viro]

Ah, but the amount of garbage on the Mac is far far less than the garbage on the PC gaming scene. Most of the indie Mac games are cool though.

[Jreifler]

what are some good upcoming mac games to be on the lookout for? In the meantime i've been debating whether I should try World Of Warcraft or Doom 3.

[Viro]

World of Warcraft is good. Bloody good.

[Mario8672]

One day every application will be universal ^^

[Sunnz]

Lol how "universal"? Have a really really fat binary that supports windows, osx, linux, solaris, BSD - all 32-bit + 64-bit - all in one big huge fat file??

Quite possible with blu-ray.