Ubisoft Makes Mac Games
As a Mac user, I've always been a little jealous of all the games PC owners get to play. Macs may be more reliable and have a more intuitive interface, but as far as gaming, they kind of suck. But now Ubisoft has announced a partnership with TransGaming that will release several of their titles on the Mac.
"To expand our business position and serve the growing Mac gaming community, additional key titles will follow later this year, including several day-and-date releases this Fall," said Jay Cohen, senior vice president of publishing at Ubisoft.
Yeah, unfortunately, the first titles released under this agreement are going to be Catz, Dogz and CSI: Hard Evidenz... sorry, Evidence. Yeah, thanks, but I'll hold out for something a little less... casual, maybe. But it's a good start, and I appreciate the effort!
Ubisoft Titles Coming To Mac [gamesindustry.biz]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 3 July 2008
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Macs may be more reliable and have a more intuitive interface
With regard to the interface, I actually find PCs to be more intuitive. And I was raised on Macs.
I'm not going to debate the first point, though the tendency of my iPod to freeze does leave me to question the stability of Apple's other products.
The ol Mac PC argument. The problem with this argument is that it is a misnomer. Macs are over priced and underpowered. You know what they go for; 2,000 big ones for a processor equal to a PC's from 1999. The ability to intuit the interface a personal preference. PC's don't have a pretty white case - unless you buy one and put your components in it. Macs are consumer grade products - they're every bit as unreliable as a PC running windows... and that is the distinction that needs to be made. A PC does not equal "Windows." PC's a far superior to Macs. Windows, however, is not. Macs are made for the technically challenged. Windows is made for the tech guru.
I dunno - it could (and i'm sure it will be) argued again and again... but in the end only facts matter. PCs have more potential for powerful hardware. Macs are prettier in most cases.
Niether is truly better than the other.
...and, again, PC does *not* equate to "Windows."
Woot, if you want to play your PC games on your Mac you can...if it's an Intel Mac at least. I play tons of games just by booting into Bootcamp. Since Bootcamp, I actually don't mind Windows so much which makes me think that the Mac hardware may have a lot more to do with me liking OSX over XP and Vista than I realized.
I forget who it was, but one reviewer (PC magazine?) named the Intel Macs the best Windows PCs on the market. Too funny.
I have a Windows partition for gaming on my MacBook pro, but I do everything else in OSX because I find Windows horribly clunky and awkward, not to mention ugly as shit, and I was raised on Windows.
As far as I'm concerned gaming is the ONLY advantage Windows has over Mac...
That being said, hopefully the new Splinter Cell or something along those lines will hit OSX now.