“Valve director of business development Jason Holtman said in an interview with GamesIndustry that, while hard numbers weren’t available to share, there are plenty of Mac users on Steam. Even users with both PCs and Macs are using the Mac to buy games, instead of thinking of their PC as the sole machine for gaming,” Foresman reports. “‘They’re not thinking about their PC and Mac being separate anymore, they’re really thinking about both of them being together and the platform just being there,’ Holtman said.”
Foresman reports, “That behavior is driving new interest in delivering Mac versions of current game releases from publishers, as opposed to considering ports after the Windows version has shipped. ‘Developers who weren’t thinking about the Mac a year ago are coming to us and saying, ‘Wow! How could I make a Mac version of my game?” said Holtman… ‘The interesting thing we’re seeing from publishers and developers alike is… they aren’t thinking about porting their games to Mac,’ Holtman said. ‘They’re thinking, ‘I need to write for a Mac. I’m not going to do a port six months later or maybe a year later, I should bring that in and do that now because there’s a fair amount of people out there.””
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Devs, there’s more than a fair number of us Mac users out here and, in general, we’re richer and smarter than Windows PC sufferers, have more discretionary income, and the proven will to spend it. You need a Mac anyway to make iOS games, you might as well put it to good use and make your wares for Macs, too.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Scott B.” for the heads up.]
Still waiting for Mac Left 4 Dead 1/2. Does anyone have some advice?
1 & 2, not one half
Once MacOS X platform gets the games, you will see huge growth in market share.
Basically, parents use Wintendos at work, and their kids use them at home for gaming. The number one gripe I have heard for the reason not to switch to mac have always been gaming related, “no games and shitty graphic cards for mac”.
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Apple has addressed the graphic card issue somewhat with their latest updates, now we just need game studios to start developing for Mac.
I’m hoping 10.7 uses OpenGL 4.x
I need putt putt
@occams razor –
There’s a whole generation of kids who could play all those Humungous games if they’d upgrade them and port them for OS X. I just did a search, and apparently these are still available online, but only for Windows. Sad.
Pajama Sam was my son’s favorite.
The day they make a gaming Mac is the day my little brother will buy one
Steam has been the best thing to happen to the Mac platform in a very long time.
I play Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source on my Mac Pro and they are running quite smoothly.
I can’t wait for left4dead 2 for mac!!!
I was playing Starcraft in OS X and Windows 7 this past weekend, and with identical graphics settings in each installation, I actually thought the game looked better in OS X. It did perform better in Windows if I cranked the quality up a bit, though not well enough to be enjoyable.
Dont bash Steam because you dont have something like 1Password to save your login info and such.
I dont always buy my games through steam, but its great to be able to install steam and then install the games i want.
Apple would have to make a Mac Pro type gaming rig to compete with windows IMO.
Gamers would rather drop $400 on a new Vid card, or two, instead of having to buy a whole new system just for better graphics.
I welcome Steam, and it will help Apple sales. But i dont install the FPS games on my mac that i do on the PC. a 256mb vid card just cant compete with 2gb of vid memory.
Mac gets better everyday. if Apple made a cheaper Upgradable tower, the PC market would take a HUGE hit.
Renaisance in mac gaming???
They’re abit late on that!
Something called the iPod went on sale 10 years ago and started the ‘Renaisance’ in gaming.
Welcome to 10 years ago!
Developers, Developers,Developers,Developers, Developers,Developers,Developers, Developers,Developers,Developers, Developers,Developers, dance steam boy , dance!
ayyy quit it with the were richer crap id say were just more educated about our investment cuz im broke as crap and still using my old ass iBook yes iBook on tiger but what i cant stand is them arrogant rich bastards who can go in buy their whole damn family a mac and not one of them knows how to really use it