Hints Lead to a Steam Client for Mac OS X

[Rob Williams]

Earlier this week, we posted about Valve's brand-new Steam beta, which happens to be quite good. It doesn't add a whole lot in terms of functionality, but it sure looks a heck of a lot prettier (in a good way). But as cool as the latest beta is, it seems there was a secret hidden deep (or not so deep) in the Steam installation folder. Secrets that lead us to believe that a Mac OS X client might be en route.

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[killem2]

That's actually pretty cool, almost would make me buy a mac, assuming that steam is doing the leg work to get games compatible.

 

[Rob Williams]

To be honest, I can't see Valve doing much to bring PC games over to the Mac, because it's just too much work, for too little gain. There's a lot of potential, but the fact of the matter is, a lot of older titles aren't going to sell that well today on the PC, so when you shave down the Mac gamers, the chances of making a good profit is slim. It'd sure be great to see, but I can't see it happening.

If anything, I've love to see it if it at least ported Source-based games over. Generally speaking, I think as long as Source works on Mac, then the games would be rather easy to port, and that would include HL2, Portal, TF2, DoD and so forth. That'd be a great day for Mac gamers.