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More games for the Mac?
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Someone brought this up briefly in one of the PS3 threads.
Since all the major consoles are going to be PowerPC based, anyone think that the Mac gaming market might see a small increase in simultaneous releases?
My guess is probably not. "No market" as they say.
But maybe? 
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I'm hoping it's going to raise a lot of questions along the lines of:
If a G5 running WinNT can play HD games fluidly, why does a G5 running OS X perform so badly (relatively) with Doom 3 et al?
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Did Nintendo release GameCube(PPC based) games for the Mac? 
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Yeah, cuz we'd all love Super Smash brothers for OS X. (sarcasm)
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You'd be better off asking when Havoc will finally be ported. Console games really aren't going to be brought to the mac until they hit the PC. Bottom-line is no one wants to port straight from console to mac so it falls on the mac porting houses. I honestly don't know why as the cost wouldn't be more than the extra profit.
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I don't think many people game on the Mac as a result of there being no games. That said if Apple worked with the Big N to make Macs compatible with this download-able game store Nintendo will be doing, I think that could be HUGE for the platform...
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Originally Posted by Superchicken
I don't think many people game on the Mac as a result of there being no games. That said if Apple worked with the Big N to make Macs compatible with this download-able game store Nintendo will be doing, I think that could be HUGE for the platform...
Yeah, because that might happen. It's not like Nintendo guard their brand/intellectual property more fiercely than any other company or anything...
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Originally Posted by Superchicken
I don't think many people game on the Mac as a result of there being no games.
Part of the reason there are "no games" is thanks to Microsoft with their DirectPlay, Direct3D, DirectX, and DirectWhatever that makes it so easy to write games on the PC. These libraries do a lot of the "grunt work" that basically has to be rewritten on the Mac because these libraries do not exist for the Mac.
Ever wonder why most games that do networked play only work PC-PC and Mac-Mac, and never Mac-PC? Those damn MS Libraries, of course.
The Mac porting houses have written their own libraries that are similar to the MS ones, but they're still proprietary, and MS is always changing theirs.
I don't expect the situation to change any time soon.
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