Id Software applauds Apple’s recent efforts into gaming

Todd Hollenshead, CEO for id Software, recently sat down with kikizo. Among the smattering of topics covered, Hollenshead stopped to congratulate Apple on its newest push for Macintosh games and their partnership with EA. In fact, he even went on to say that developing for the Macintosh platform was getting easier because of the Intel chips and lack of crazy Apple-only “benchmarks.”
But if Steve had games on his show; not only did he give time to id, he gave time to EA, and I do think that it demonstrates at least a commitment at a high level to sharing the platform’s face, if you will, with games.
…[we’re] not having to deal with this weird Power PC architecture; [Apple now has] Intel chips and all that stuff, and it does make it a whole lot easier for us to work with it. I don’t think that they’re hamstrung at a […]

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