jason1637 said:
What if its a steam game that cant be played on Mac but its only on Windows and Xbox? |
Like I said, virtualization. I use playonMac and crossover mostly. It creates a little wrapper that pretends to be windows and translates everything to Mac OS. You do take a small hit on performance for some games, but as long as it's not exclusive to the windows 10 store, I can probably play it. I have a windows version steam installed in a wrapper and everything I play from that install just launches like it's native to mac even if it's windows only.
One of the only games I've had trouble with was the 2015 Kings Quest, because it had a windows bug I couldn't fix.
Games would probably run a bit better if I used boot Camp and had a complete Windows installation, but that would take drive space and I'd have to deal with log-ins and log-outs, anti-virus stuff and bugs and crashes (although I'm probably unduly biased against windows because my last windows was XP, I've heard it runs much more stable now).
I'm obviously not a hardcore PC gamer though, I happen to work on a mac and just play whatever I can't play on any of my consoles on there, so for my rather casual use it works. Gaming on Mac might get a little more viable with egpu support officially coming.
jonathanalis said:
Well, if you cannot play natively on Mac, you still need a Windows environment. So, it is MS exclusive. |
Wich is why I said 'Xbox'. With MS you might or might not have a point, because so many games out there just automatically come to PC because it's the dominant and more importantly open platform. They never signed any kind of exclusivity deal, but are still going to be claimed as 'exclusive' by MS because they don't have the resouces for a port or have moved on or disbanded a long time ago. Anyways I can play them without actually installing any windows on my system, so I'm good.
