Steam won't help Mac's situation with games

Even if Mac's game library dramatically increases and even somehow manages to match Windows' one day, it won't change the core reason why gaming on a Mac is a bad idea: the hardware. It's highly overpriced, limited, and doesn't optimize for games as well as Windows. What Apple should do is lower prices on some of the high performance models and allow for more user customization.

That's just how I think anyways. I'm sure plenty of Mac users will be taking advantage of Steam and playing games, but for someone who's been gaming on a PC for a long time, it's just not a very viable option.

I'm sure plenty of Mac users will be taking advantage of Steam and playing games, but for someone who's been gaming on a PC for a long time, it's just not a very viable option.Silent-Assasin7

I don't think they're targeting Mac 'gamers'. I think instead they're just targeting Mac users who might want to play a game or two, for the casual indy developers and PopCap, Steam for Mac will be awesome.

I also have friends who own iMac's and Macbook's and have windows installed on themsolely to play games, my friend loves the idea of not having to reboot into windows to play a game of L4D2 with us.

I don't think they're targeting Mac 'gamers'. I think instead they're just targeting Mac users who might want to play a game or two, for the casual indy developers and PopCap, Steam for Mac will be awesome.

I also have friends who own iMac's and Macbook's and have windows installed on themsolely to play games, my friend loves the idea of not having to reboot into windows to play a game of L4D2 with us.

the_mitch28

I don't think they're targeting Mac 'gamers'. I think instead they're just targeting Mac users who might want to play a game or two, for the casual indy developers and PopCap, Steam for Mac will be awesome.

I also have friends who own iMac's and Macbook's and have windows installed on themsolely to play games, my friend loves the idea of not having to reboot into windows to play a game of L4D2 with us.

the_mitch28

It's highly overpriced, limited, and doesn't optimize for games as well as Windows. What Apple should do is lower prices on some of the high performance models and allow for more user customization.

Silent-Assasin7

Now don't take me as a Mac fan because I do own a PC. But my opinion is that the Mac's, yes they are more expensivebut they are a lot more stable as well.

As far as the fact as games aren't optimized for Mac, well that's true, because the majority of gamers play on PC. If there was a higher percentage of gamers that gamed on a Mac then I bet developers and game designers would increase the amount of work they put into the game for Mac.

Even if Mac's game library dramatically increases and even somehow manages to match Windows' one day, it won't change the core reason why gaming on a Mac is a bad idea: the hardware. It's highly overpriced, limited, and doesn't optimize for games as well as Windows. What Apple should do is lower prices on some of the high performance models and allow for more user customization.

That's just how I think anyways. I'm sure plenty of Mac users will be taking advantage of Steam and playing games, but for someone who's been gaming on a PC for a long time, it's just not a very viable option.

Silent-Assasin7

Hell I just played Killing Floor on my brothers 24in iMac (2007) with a ATI HD2600 Mobile in it and it maxed it out at the native resolution of machine. I was pretty suprised on how well they got it to play on OSX because I was expecting some chuggness much like Portal was when it launched for OSX.

If anything it is just going to bring more people to playing games, because who doesn't like to play with more people? It is going to get to a point where operating systems are all going to be the same an we won't have this trivial argument about which one is better then the other because the gaming argument on Windows vs OSX is closing the gap if they continue to do what Valve is doing.

It's kind of odd how the only people who have anything against Macs and Mac gaming are people who have PCs. You do realize that it doesn't affect you in any way. As far as gaming goes on the Mac and steams new Mac service, I would say that it is a good business move seeing as I've bought $40 in Mac games in the past month from steam. Also, my next computer won't be a mac as I plan to build my own PC, but I really like OSX compared to Windows, Hence the reason why I went with Mac to begin with.