rec.autos.simulators

Is there anyone out there with serious game marketplace knowledge that
can explain why is it that ALL racing sims companies boycut the Mac
platform???!!!

No GP2, no GPL, and no... NOTHING!

I mean, the mac has now a good base of all sorts of games and sims,
including Fly!, but when it comes to auto racing...

While flight sims editors develop both platforms (Windows and Mac), the
auto sims developpers just ignore the Mac...

Is there something special with auto racing sims market that I don't
know about?

At first sight, I don't see what is so different between flight sims
and auto sims market...

Pierre Racine, Canada

Andi.

They must have used a Mac to CAD that Mercedes at LeMans this year...

Marc.

Dave

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And since there is only one steering wheel available for Mac (the T2), the
Mac hasn't developed a big "racing community". Don't know about the
current USB wheels, though.

It all comes down to marketshare. It is now official that M$ has a
monopoly. And Gates is damn good at marketing while Apple always sucked
there. People want a cheap computer and work endless hours on fiddling
with ini-files, drivers and hardware problems. Just take a closer look at
the topices of this newsgroup. Few people spend a single buck more than
neccessary although it might help them avoid a lot of hassle.

ObjRacing: Go to http://macracing.simplenet.com/ to sign the Macintosh
Racing petition. _Maybe_ some producer will understand.

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: It's really a pity. There are these age-old ICR2 and N1 which have been
: ported to Mac, nothing more. Main problem is that game companies
: concentrate on making _only_ a PC game without spending a second thinking
: about porting. So if a game has success they hire a second company to do
: the porting (which increases the amount of effort). Therefore this effort
: is often not worth the revenue. It is possible to develop for both, look
: at bungie. They say that less than 5% of developing goes into
: platform-specific code. That's because they develop multi-platform from
: the beginning. Sierra does not.

Is it possible that developing for multi-platforms sacrifices code
efficiency for a particular platform?  Then again, there is a lot of
inefficient code out there on PCs anyway.

: It all comes down to marketshare. It is now official that M$ has a
: monopoly. And Gates is damn good at marketing while Apple always sucked
: there. People want a cheap computer and work endless hours on fiddling

Well, it would be nice to see the iMac market share start a cascade affect
in software development.  But I'm afraid we'll have to wait a looong time
for the money earners to establish the Mac as a *** platform
(Half-Life, Riven, Quake, Age of Empires etc. etc.) before anyone tries it
with less profitable genres, and especially with sub-genres ("sims" vs
"racing games").

Personally, I'd love to see what a G4 could throw around.  Any desktop
that is too hot to be sold in Libya must be ok for games.  Imagine a
GPL-esque game running on Apple's widescreen monitor.  Ooooooh.

Stephen

Or maybe people just want to own something that actually has a use?
Impressive hardware is _nothing_ without content.

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