Why? Why do we have to use Bootcamp just to play games (such as Need For Speed and billions of others)? That is so wrong. They should make every application for all OSes. And that includes linux.
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Why won't developers make games for Mac?
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Windows, albeit being completely useless in my opinion, dominates most of the consumer market. Macs dominate a small but growing amount, so developers are more inclined to want to make more money, so they produce for the bigger majority.
The invisible hand points to Windows as being the most economical platform for games.
PS: Some developers do make games for OS X.
PS: Some developers do make games for OS X.
Your use of the term racist is grossly out of context
And demanding equality of OSes is misguided
You are not entitled to anything
When it comes to business, it is $$$ that drive it
If games on the Mac were more profitable, there would be more interest in providing them
And, FWIW, game makers push the limits of hardware
Macs are not noted for their attention to specs
Valve has plenty of games for the Mac. Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, Counter-Strike: Source just to name a few. These are all popular and quality games. I think Windows is flooded with crap games IMHO.
Because you have to rewrite the code for each OS. That takes time and money. Companies have to decide whether the investment of that time and money is worth the money that they will make back from sales of the software.
If it takes 60% more men/dollars/hours to port it to Mac, but Mac has only .. 10% of the games market, is it worth it?