Steam is finally going to arrive on the Mac in less than two weeks; exciting news, indeed. There is no doubt that this will open the doors to a much larger audience for Steam. Something that many people don't know is that Macs are completely strong gaming computers. They are speedy with quick processors, and carry above-average graphics cards. The only reason people haven't been gaming on the Mac very frequently is....well, nobody makes games for the platform.
This may very well change if Steam on the Mac turns out to be successful. There isn't much known about the current beta underway, however. A reddit post gives us a short insight into a subject that people are not allowed to generally talk about (no disclosure):
I'm in the beta. Not sure how much I'm allowed to say -there's a bit of an NDA on it - but the beta started earlier this week, includes the Steam client and Portal. It's definitely beta, but playable. Very promising.
You can interpret this however you'd like, but it's still exciting to hear from an actual person that the games are promising, even though they're in beta.
Of course, the release date may change. In fact, many people have grown to expect it, due to "Valve Time", a timeline of what Valve developers really mean when they give a release date or time frame.
A few examples of "Valve Time"
What do you think? Is Steam on the Mac a step in the right direction? Will the big risk pay off?
1 comments:
Hopefully, this is one step closer to an easy way for everybody to make multi-platform programs.
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