My point was that for home use, games are important. The Mac has historically lagged the PC in game software available. The Playstation emulator changes that. Now that the Mac is price comparable with PCs, looks cooler, has MS Office, and runs tons of games, it is in many ways a better home computer than a PC.
Nice try, but remember that they are Playstation games. Playstation games are no match for PC games. Try comparing Tomb Raider on PSX to Tomb Radier on PC -- no contest at all (in fact it'd be embarassing). I bought a PC to play games like Quake 2, Half-life, Tomb Raider. I own a Mac, a PC, a Playstation, and a Nintendo 64. To be honest, I bought my PC just to play Quake 2 (but I justified it by saying "It'll run Quickbooks" :) ). There's only a handful of games worth playing on Playstation, imho. (btw, if you do play only one Playstation game, get Metal Gear Solid -- it's worth buying the entire system just to play that game)
On the gaming front, the big news today is not the PSX emulator, it's that it seems like developers are slowly going to develop for the Mac. Carmack showing up in person was HUGE. Jobs knows how important it is to get the hot new PC games developed for the Mac simultaneously (it's got terribly frustrating having to wait over a year for the Mac port of Quake to be released, and then have Quake 2 come out on PC). Frankly, if Apple had said "Well, now we've got a Playstation emulator, that solves the games problem," I'd have been really worried. But I'm not. The future keeps looking brighter for this company.
-j. |
