SteamPlay... please?

gsspider · 06-01-2010, 11:08 PM

I was really looking forward to this, but I somehow thought they would take the chance and make those old games PC and Mac.
Since I'm hardly running Steam on my PC anymore, I probably won't even buy one of those games

If they added SteamPlay on the other hand...

06-04-2010, 11:42 PM

Fact is, it's not profitable to go back and revise code then recompile it for Mac, then beta test it. That's the whole reason games are rarely on macs, because they hold such little market share it's not profitable.

Ganger · 06-06-2010, 03:14 AM

But saying that, look at the Steam Hardware stats...

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

MAC accounts for 8.46% of all steam users

MacOS 10.6.3 64 bit (+6.73%) 6.73%
MacOS 10.5.8 64 bit (+1.40%) 1.40%
MacOS 10.6 64 bit (+0.33%) 0.33%

So nearly 9 out of 100 steam users use a MAC OS.

ASecondOpinion · 06-06-2010, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Ganger

But saying that, look at the Steam Hardware stats...

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

MAC accounts for 8.46% of all steam users

MacOS 10.6.3 64 bit (+6.73%) 6.73%
MacOS 10.5.8 64 bit (+1.40%) 1.40%
MacOS 10.6 64 bit (+0.33%) 0.33%

So nearly 9 out of 100 steam users use a MAC OS.

Doesn't the Hardware survey only take details about the computer you're currently on? Meaning that if there is someone using a Mac and a PC but the HW Survey took details from the Mac then the whole thing will be incorrect...

seseorang · 06-06-2010, 05:42 AM

How do you get 9 from 8.46? I've never seen .46 of a person. But of all the details recorded - 8% is pretty good.

If this continues, the Mac could be very viable in the future. Making openGL or openCL more of a competitor as more people will know how to use it as with DX. Why use DX and openCL/GL when you can use CL when nearly every home computer will understand it?

Darkstar83 · 06-07-2010, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by seseorang

How do you get 9 from 8.46? I've never seen .46 of a person. But of all the details recorded - 8% is pretty good.

If this continues, the Mac could be very viable in the future. Making openGL or openCL more of a competitor as more people will know how to use it as with DX. Why use DX and openCL/GL when you can use CL when nearly every home computer will understand it?

OpenCL isn't for graphics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU

rabish12 · 06-07-2010, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by billybobjoe198

Fact is, it's not profitable to go back and revise code then recompile it for Mac, then beta test it. That's the whole reason games are rarely on macs, because they hold such little market share it's not profitable.

I really doubt that. Genesis emulators aren't especially large investments or especially complicated chunks of code, and a single Genesis emulator is all they'd need to port over. Honestly, it's something someone with access to the source and decent coding experience could do within a few days at the most, unless Sega's utterly botched the coding for their emulator.

RangerXML · 10-29-2010, 01:24 PM

How many wanna bet that it doesn't show stats for people running Steam under bootcamp? SteamPlay is neat and all, but where are the major games ppl wanna play like COD (which was released retail to Mac) and Sega classics.

01-27-2011, 06:54 PM

Speaking as someone whose sole computer is a Mac, I would love to be able to buy these games. It really wouldn't take a whole lot of effort to port it over I imagine.

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gsspider Join Date: Aug 2007 Reputation: 0 Posts: 249	SteamPlay... please? I was really looking forward to this, but I somehow thought they would take the chance and make those old games PC and Mac. Since I'm hardly running Steam on my PC anymore, I probably won't even buy one of those games If they added SteamPlay on the other hand...

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06-04-2010, 11:42 PM	#2
billybobjoe198 Guest Posts: n/a	Fact is, it's not profitable to go back and revise code then recompile it for Mac, then beta test it. That's the whole reason games are rarely on macs, because they hold such little market share it's not profitable.

06-06-2010, 03:14 AM	#3
Ganger Join Date: Mar 2008 Reputation: 255 Posts: 2,461	But saying that, look at the Steam Hardware stats... http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey MAC accounts for 8.46% of all steam users MacOS 10.6.3 64 bit (+6.73%) 6.73% MacOS 10.5.8 64 bit (+1.40%) 1.40% MacOS 10.6 64 bit (+0.33%) 0.33% So nearly 9 out of 100 steam users use a MAC OS.

06-06-2010, 05:42 AM	#5
seseorang Join Date: Feb 2010 Reputation: 683 Posts: 7,234	How do you get 9 from 8.46? I've never seen .46 of a person. But of all the details recorded - 8% is pretty good. If this continues, the Mac could be very viable in the future. Making openGL or openCL more of a competitor as more people will know how to use it as with DX. Why use DX and openCL/GL when you can use CL when nearly every home computer will understand it?

10-29-2010, 01:24 PM	#8
RangerXML Join Date: Oct 2009 Reputation: 38 Posts: 1,511	How many wanna bet that it doesn't show stats for people running Steam under bootcamp? SteamPlay is neat and all, but where are the major games ppl wanna play like COD (which was released retail to Mac) and Sega classics.

01-27-2011, 06:54 PM	#9
TheFamousEccles Guest Posts: n/a	Speaking as someone whose sole computer is a Mac, I would love to be able to buy these games. It really wouldn't take a whole lot of effort to port it over I imagine.