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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The problem is as follows:
Piracy. The reason why a lot of gamers exist (especially in foreign countries) is that games are pirated and can be found as cracked everywhere. Now what good is a pirated game if you dont have the hardware to run it? No good is the answer. Will people who are so cheap as to pirate games buy a mac to run it? No! And will they wait until the PC version comes out? possibly but they might lose interest by the time it does. If the CD (or DVD) makes a concurrent launch of both Mac, windows and linux platforms, how will apple make profits from pirated games? after all people do not have incentive to switch since they are getting it for free.