Macintosh computers has always been the ugly duck of the game industry, because the hardcore games are not ported or take too much to port them or maybe because Apple has not seen any business in games or Steve does not want bloody games on mac, anyway there are enough reasons than games available.

In the past Apple has let slipped good oportunity because of the lack of game plan or interest in home entertaining, Bungie with a good mac game called Marathon and Oni, this little company turn out to be the maker of the ultra famous Halo Franchise, was acquired by Microsoft and became a hardcore game maker.

Remember Myst, wow, what a damn game, I used to spent the whole night playing it, the Tomb Raider serie was a good mac game, but now Mac gamers are abandoned in the dark. I am playing Tomb Raider Anniversary, Dark Messiah and Far Cry all of them work perfectly in my Imac 20″ running Bootcamp.

Maybe Apple does not need a bloody game, but something has to be done in this area, Nintendo has proved that you can sell family games in tons, without a super duper console or losing too much money in the process.

There has been some kind of progress, recently EA has commited to port some of its games, Apple itself introduced games in the ipod platform, maybe soon in the iphone, rumours has been rampant about Apple porting some of Nintendo games, but the reality is that now that all Mac computers run Windows and there is not reason to port or make games to the mac, because is easier to make mac users run their games in Windows.

Remedy:
First thing Apple should do is to turn the game button ON, create a game unit inside Apple.
Buy, rent or create a new Game Engine, license it to game creators
Build a new mac, basically a mac mini for Games, with a better graphic card, more hard drive and more memory.
Create a game section in itunes.
Buy those classic mac games and port them to ipod, iphone and to leopard.
Buy the remaining of Sega or buy Nintendo
Buy Aspir.
Create some wireless remote.

Please Apple does something, we need games.

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