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Apparently, although Japan has a thriving Mac culture, the production of Mac games is terrible, on the level of, oh, Mac gaming in America until five years ago. Yeah, that bad.
Wired reports that even in the famous Ginza, they could find only two Mac games for sale. But all that may be changing, thanks to an unlikely savior: Microsoft.
Microsoft Japan is planning to translate and market a whole series of popular Mac games, calling it the Microsoft Mac Games Collection.
On Sunday, just a week before the annual Tokyo Game Show, Microsoft released the first in the series: the Japanese edition of the popular Halo Combat Evolved.
"Microsoft will help Japanese Mac users play the best games," said Aya Kazama, a Microsoft product manager.
In a cross-country launch at the Apple stores in Tokyo and Osaka, dozens of gamers battled each other using Halo's networking option and Apple's iChat AV.
No mention of whether this is the MacSoft port, although I can't imagine MS would go to the trouble to port the game itself, just for Japan. Boy, that'd be a really bitchy move on their part, eh?
Read on for more info about how MS is marketing Halo in Japan, as well as info on the BEST PROFESSOR EVER:
In Osaka, professor Uoi said the Mac is a great gaming platform and that he requires all his students to buy Macs.
Bill's been using Macs since the late 80s. When he's not making smartass remarks to amuse Kirk Hiner, he enjoys fighting for the user.
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