Future for Games on Power PC, Lara gives us the brush-off

[Metalizer]

I just found out from Apple's downloads page that the Tomb Raider Anniversary edition "requires a Mac with an Intel processor".
Apple bundled the original game with Macs back in 2001. Given that many Mac users may have upgraded to later Power PCs, but haven't yet migrated to Intel Macs, it seems a bit unfair that there's an assumption that all players of the original game must have moved to Intel by now.

Let's hope that companies like Blizzard continue to keep the Power PC door open for another while.

This post has been edited by Metalizer: Feb 17 2008, 01:44 AM

[Cri-cri]

I'm not confident on this one

Many games are Intel-only right now...

Look at oll the new games:
- Tomb Raider Anniversary
- Heroes of Might and Magic V
- Star Wars Empire at Wars
- Guitar Hero III
- Neverwinter Nights 2
- (probably) Ennemi Territory Quake Wars


Some are also Intel-only due to CIDER:
- Need for Speed Carbon
- Battefield 2142
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008
- Madden NFL 08

Heard that for these, it was not as good as expected (esp. NFS Carbon)



Note: list to be updated (these are just the one I know/ heard about so far )


PS: moved the topic to the Games forum as well