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    From the Feb 20 2014 GameWatch interview with Yoshi-P translation by Reinheart (as ever, it's greatly appreciated):

    GW: Personally I was curious about the Mac version from today’s presentation. I believe this was the first time you mentioned about the Mac version. How much can we expect for that happening?

    Y: Right now it’s still at a level where I’m joking about it to the development team (laugh).

    GW: You’re saying that now, but in actual you guys are secretly working on it?

    Y: No (laugh)

    GW: You sure?

    Y: Within the development team there are talks like “Why aren’t we going to do Xbox One?”. Just like how we said that as long as Xbox doesn’t change their closed network policy it’s going to be hard. It’s same here, Mac’s demands are pretty big, right now I’m just mumbling to myself “I want Mac version”, that’s about it for now (laugh).

    GW: I would like to see it happen, but doesn’t look like it’s something that’s going to happen this year.

    Y: That’s not possible. Sadly, we don’t have any margin in the current development line.
    Edit: Oh, just to clarify the above and an earlier post: There's no "Apple approval" process required for Mac software. There are many distribution systems other than Apple's Mac App Store. Apple has no involvement with those (no restrictions, no revenue sharing, etc). Steam is one, and most online Mac stores offer downloads directly. Plus with MMOs, most of the game is downloaded by the launcher directly from SE anyway (just like with the Windows version).
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