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

[Metalizer]

I just checked the Macgold online retail site. All of their listed new releases except Tombraider Anniversary, are still given as compatible with Power PC.

However, with Tombraider Anniversary they added some further detail:
"Requires an Intel processor.
Does not run on Intel GMA processors (basically graphics cards with shared RAM as in Intel Mac Minis and MacBooks)"

For some of the unreleased games they don't commit themselves to compatibility and advise to check with manufacturer.

In the meantime it's interesting to note how Apple casts its hardware as gaming machines:
http://www.apple.com/games/hardware/

P.S. found this interesting story from PC World on Mac games for 2008:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140327-page,1/article.html

This post has been edited by Metalizer: Feb 17 2008, 03:53 PM