Good news for mac gamers

Sounds interesting, will keep an eye on it, hopefully it will work out better than the Phantom game console.....

 

not trying to be pest here, but i have been running macos and xp on the same box, comparing whatever games i can find that are on both, and XP kills my mac running OSX every time. Better resolutions, less dropped frames, and just runs better when i am on-line. Now i have only been able to test a few games, but first person shooters seem to run much better in XP.

cant wait to check out the system they have, cause all those games look pretty good.

 

Somebody (Cnet? CNN?) had a review of a similar if not this service recently. The writer demo'd playing Crysis (I think) on a Macbook Air & it ran flawlessly (via Boot Camp, but the point was hardware not software). Article's point was that Sony, Nintendo, etc. could be in trouble if gaming goes the cloud-hardware route.

 

Its not because of the Operating System, its the graphics library that is used. More developers use DirectX and thus optimise for it. Most games on the Mac are ports or just windows games in wrappers like cider to make it run on the Mac. So its not "truly native" as it were.

 

There's been much discussion about this already, use this thread instead:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=673963