andrew carter

Peter Molyneux calls out Apple to do a better job of supporting game developers. I have mixed feelings on this. I’m a gamer. I certainly would love to see more AAA titles on OS X. That said, I spend the majority of my gaming time on consoles (Xbox/Xbox 360/PSP). A few years ago, I think PC’s needed games. But with the current state of consoles, I don’t know about that anymore.Apple is very good at keeping things simple and doing one thing at a time well. The iPod is the perfect example - it is a music player and nothing else. Games are radically different than many other software you want to run on your computer. Consoles offer a much better environment. Modern games need to take over the whole box. On a PC or Mac, that is not acceptable.Microsoft does do an incredible job supporting game developers. I have a friend that is an architect in the DirectX group. I was talking to him the other day about the future of DirectX and PC’s. I submitted that Xbox 360 was all they should worry about anymore. He made a great point to me though - games sell hardware upgrades. He is absolutely right. How many people upgrade their PC in order to play a new game? How many people really need a new machine to surf the web or run Office? Apple innovates more in the hardware space and uses that as the upgrade motivator.It is nice though that high profile developers like Molyneux pay attention to the Mac platform. Luckily, the Blizzard guys have always supported it so must have PC titles like World of Warcraft have been there. But given the more limited resources of Apple, I’d rather they keep doing what they are and leave games on the consoles.