Linked by Kevin M. Arvin on Wed 16th Jul 2003 05:19 UTC
How many hardcore gamers do you know who are also avid Mac users? Probably not many. Windows users have thousands of titles to choose from, and cheap hardware to run their games on. Despite the many virtues of the Mac platform, it is not the first choice of serious gamers. Even the speedy new G5's will not change that.
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BTW, this is an interesting article on software economics: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000051.html
"Now, if you want me to make a Mac port, I need the third thing:
* cost of porting from Windows to Mac is less than 10%."
The Mackido article cited by the author of this OSNews article places the cost at 15-20%, and probably overestimates the desktop marketshare of MacOS X. (Remember, only OS X matters, not Mac share overall.) Plus, game companies are not known for basic software engineering practices like CVS that would make ports much easier. So while Blizzard, ID and Epic may be professional implementors, most other companies are testosterone-driven and may even be throwing bad programmers at the porting effort.
But again, things will likely get better. It does seem that a more affluent userbase should buy more games, though I don't have any numbers for that right now.