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> The thing for me is, though, that it would be great if more games came pre wrapped in some sort of emulation with all the relevant settings tweaked.

For example, http://transgaming.com/cider. Notice, though, the high-touch sales process--that's unfortunately necessary, since "relevant settings tweaked" can actually sometimes mean "relevant DLLs reimplemented by us, as part of the 'sales-engineering' process, specifically to make your software work."

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Cider is, IIRC, regularly used to port games to OSX, but the results are pretty poor in my experience.

The winelib/cider method of porting raises an interesting question, should I as a mac/linux user have to pay the same price as a windows user for an objectively inferior product? (In the case of steam I think this is fine, because I get access to all three versions of the game)

For a niche product you'd expect to pay more, not less!

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