Comments on: Valve Brings Source and Steam to Mac

By: quicksilver

quicksilver — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:01:41 +0000

@Peshue, I generally agree, but lots of the games we spend much of our time on are not graphically intensive…
Tho if I had access to ALL of my games on my laptop, I’d never get anything done. So, I suppose it’s a curse and a blessing.

By: peshue

peshue — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:19:52 +0000

Now if only macs had better hardware for such things…
I’ve long ago given up on mac gaming. Yeah, booting into Windows was a minor annoyance, but there’s so much available for windows that isn’t for macs that I rarely use my osx partition anymore. Sure XP was a far cry from osx, but I find that 7 makes osx look antiquated in many ways.

By: quicksilver

quicksilver — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:46:03 +0000

YAY! If I only had a larger hard drive on my Mac…

This will inevitably lead to a linux version of Steam at some point and maybe even ports to consoles (even the PS3/Wii use (heavily) modified OpenGL). It would be amazing if the Wii2 just used steam for multiplayer IDs since Nintendo is obviously having a hard time figuring it out.

While this was a few years ago, Newell has at least stated his personal liking of the Wii.

The biggest thing we could gain here is the attitude that services like Steam Play should be a given for the good of the industry as a whole, instead of the attitude that most publishers have with trying to cash in on us as many times as they can (not to mention the music industry).

By: Carlo

Carlo — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:30:03 +0000

If this didn’t happen I would have had to hope for a PS3 Portal 2 port.

By: babble

babble — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:17:04 +0000

Yes, this made my day!

Gratz to Vavle and Apple for bringing this to us.