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I just thought I'd start an interesting discussion. Every Mac user has had the battle cry " We want more mac games" which has been met with either the "switch to a PC" cry or mostly dead silence, with some exceptions. Now everyone here pretty much assumes that the reason is the lack of Mac user base. Which I used to agree on. Untill now, and here is why. For anyone familiar, even remotely, with writing games knows that programers are ultimatly constricted to the hardware they have to work with. Coders for Home consoles like Xbox, playstation and nintendo, have very set limits as to what they can work with, so they have to write very good code for these games.
On the PC however, programers are constataly given faster and faster CPUs, Video cards and memory. SO they can write games as detailed and, unfortunatly, as sloppy as they want. They can use the sub par programers to make the code and if it doesn't run as good on a system, they just up the recommened system specs and be done with it.
If these companys made thier games for Mac, you know they would have to keep the same graphic quality, but tweak the games more and more. Why? Because its much harder to upgrade a mac than a PC. Most people have iMac with fixed video cards so they can't just swap it out with the latest and greatest ATI Or NVIDIA chip that cost about 600.00 to upgrade. So alot of companies just don't bother with it.
Not to mention Im sure that these game makers have plenty of deals with hardware manufactures to take advantage of the latest features, and get a nice kickback as well.
Well thats my rant for now. Anyone have any opinions about this? Just wanted to get the conspiracy theory out there..
On the PC however, programers are constataly given faster and faster CPUs, Video cards and memory. SO they can write games as detailed and, unfortunatly, as sloppy as they want. They can use the sub par programers to make the code and if it doesn't run as good on a system, they just up the recommened system specs and be done with it.
If these companys made thier games for Mac, you know they would have to keep the same graphic quality, but tweak the games more and more. Why? Because its much harder to upgrade a mac than a PC. Most people have iMac with fixed video cards so they can't just swap it out with the latest and greatest ATI Or NVIDIA chip that cost about 600.00 to upgrade. So alot of companies just don't bother with it.
Not to mention Im sure that these game makers have plenty of deals with hardware manufactures to take advantage of the latest features, and get a nice kickback as well.
Well thats my rant for now. Anyone have any opinions about this? Just wanted to get the conspiracy theory out there..