“In June, Electronic Arts co-founder and chief creative officer Bing Gordon took the stage with Apple CEO Steve Jobs during the Worldwide Developers conference (WWDC), announcing that the game maker was moving staff members over to the Mac platform to once again release gaming titles for Mac OS X,” MacNN reports.
“Gordon promised that the first titles to ship for Macs would include Command & Conquer 3, Battlefield 2142, Need for Speed Carbon, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and that those titles would ship in July. It’s now more than a week into August, and none of the promised titles have arrived, nor has Electronic Arts made any announcements on the subject,” MacNN reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: EA currently remains mum on the situation. Our attempts to find out fro EA have gone unanswered just like MacNN’s. So, what’s the deal?
Apple’s Website has feature on EA Games returning to the Mac in which all of the games are listed as “coming soon.”
More info from Apple on games for the Mac and iPod can be found here.
I have to say i do get such a kick out of the MDN responses. Do many of the readers of MDN (which has moved into second place in my MacTech Safari bookmarks–just underneath Ars) live in their own closed little world. I do artwork (graphics), that have been produced all over the world… just on these efficient machines from Apple. Just to damn unproductive on a windows based machine.
One son of mine is a linux/networking guru… mostly PC. One is a gamer, windows XP—always dissing macs. One does music stuff..uses both– would be all mac iffn’ he made more money.
Choices… I really appreciate choices… well most of the time…it is difficult to decide which Vista version to get!! ??
If you need games, use Boot Camp. (Heh and they call Macs “toys”.)
Both C&C3; and Flight Simulator X run great on my iMac Core Duo 2.0.
Of course Windows’ security still stinks. I unplug all networking before booting into XP.
Writing great software is hard. It’s done when it’s done. Even Apple’s software schedules slip. I expect Ballmer would not like to add any comments on the phenomenon.
I think this is a clue that Apple will enter the game console market to take on the X-Box, Wii, etc. We will see these games released when Apple has it’s console (OS 10.5 based I’m guessing) on the market.
Just my 4 cents!
Nah, The gaming market is a loss leader for hardware, and that is what apple does (sells hardware)…..If it wanted to create the games (and bet they they could put out some kick ass software) then maybe……Apple is apple…Nice design = Nice design. Some people collect LeWitts, I collect Macs
And what to they sell hardware for? Software, games, DUH!!!
Just about all of Apple’s hardware can run any game out there decently if not better than some Windows machines.
EA doesn’t even mention Mac once on there site anywhere. Not even upcoming titles for the platform. If they are having problems with the transgaming platform why aren’t they just admitting it and at least letting the world know and the Mac people who would like to know what the hell is going on! Writing great software is hard but letting people know why you are not meeting a promised deadline is easy. EA needs to at least inform interested customers about what’s going on. Steve Jobs never made any comments about games except he would like to see more come to the Mac platform which is why EA was there supposedly.
Raskol you got your head up your ass. G what? Where the hell have you been? Were talking Dualcore 2 2 GHZ to 2.8 Ghz Intel processors. Better know what you’re talking about before writing such non-sense. Macs are for everything including games.
got it…
Wo Mac is making a Game Machine LOL
why Now like the apple tv,
off course sell through itunes.
They will buy rights from WII for wak thingy will be great,
got it…
Wo Mac is making a Game Machine LOL
why Now like the apple tv,
off course sell through itunes.
They will buy rights from WII for wak thingy will be great,
got it…
Wo Mac is making a Game Machine LOL
why Now like the apple tv,
off course sell through itunes.
They will buy rights from WII for wak thingy will be great,
got it…
Wo Mac is making a Game Machine LOL
why Now like the apple tv,
off course sell through itunes.
They will buy rights from WII for wak thingy will be great,
raskol
is right.
what can we do to change this Raskol?
Graphics cars are scary mean now.
so I suggest apple sells naked Mother boards
and we can make our own machine.
We can Put A CPU in it , GPU etc
and have an legal High powered machine for cheap.
PS any jobs going any single girls?
http://consumerist.com/consumer/ha,-ha,-good-one/verizon-csr-gives-fake-callback-number-that-rings-a-dating-hotline-286961.php
http://consumerist.com/consumer/ha,-ha,-good-one/verizon-csr-gives-fake-callback-number-that-rings-a-dating-hotline-286961.php
http://consumerist.com/consumer/ha,-ha,-good-one/verizon-csr-gives-fake-callback-number-that-rings-a-dating-hotline-286961.php
http://consumerist.com/consumer/ha,-ha,-good-one/verizon-csr-gives-fake-callback-number-that-rings-a-dating-hotline-286961.php
research time. those imac graphic cards are not so hot.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2151676,00.asp
The average age of the posters on this thread so far has to be about eleven, and most of those posters are typing during their bilingual ed classes. *shaking head* Children, children, children. Let’s focus for one second, ok?
1) “Integrated graphics” does in fact mean that the graphics hard is part of the motherboard and not a separate card. For all your PC-hardcore-gaming-street cred, if you don’t know this, you are truly ignorant.
2) If you have time and the inclination to build your own rig, you really have nothing to say on this forum. You’ve just identified yourself as someone who has the time, the desire, and the motivation to spend all your time debugging and tweaking your custom setup. You are not interested in using your computer as much as you are in obtaining bragging rights to pwn other users in geek popularity contests. Let me make it clear — you are using your brains for nothing lasting. You are wasting your potential. You are a loser.
3) The issue here isn’t “gaming on a mac”,but rather, “What’s up with EA”? Focus, children.
Don’t underestimate the importance of games.
There are lots of people who will never consider a Mac because they aren’t gaming rigs. That equals lost sales, especially in the important 16-24 year old demographic.
I’ve seen it again and again, kids who grew up on Macs jumping ship to the Windoze when gaming becomes their number 1 computing priority. Lots of these people remain Windoze users for the rest of their lives.
Hey, this isn’t as bad as Microsoft’s Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007, which they still show as being “targeted for availablity” in May 2007:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/ilm2007/faq.mspx
That shows a lot of dedication to the product if someone can’t even be bothered to update (or remove) the planned release date when it’s 4 months past.
Disclaimer. I have no problem with people that LOVE to game. I am sorry that Apple does not make Alien type game machines, nor easy to pull apart machines where you can mix and match your parts. NO nasty feelings intended with this post. en.
@ Paul Zune:
Not trying to be a pain, but —-
Yep, the game focused youth are a real big market. NOT. Yes there are a few of them and many want to build their own machine. Have at it. The large majority of computer users DO NOT spend all day playing games and do not want to build their own machine.
Apple, for the rest of us. — Get it?
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@ raskol:
“haha. Gaming on the Mac. Maybe if the Mac Pro didn’t cost $million with a $50 video card someone would play games on a Mac. But since we’re stuck with iMacs with integrated graphics who cares about games? Not many.”
Again, buy a windows game machine and play games on it. Buy a Mac for everything else. Simple. BUT you say, you can only afford one machine. — Sorry. 🙁
Consider that many hard working people / familes today have multiple machines. I am supporting 5 as it is. eMac G4 for home, iBook G3 on the road, iMac G5 for graphics and work and an old iMac G3 Bundi Blue for a friend. Wireless network too.
So who is Apple going to make money off of, families with multiple computers, a home network, Apple tv, etc or a young kid who works all summer so he can buy an Alien Game machine so he can spend all night playing video games.
Sorry guys, its business, thats all. Make machines that are simple, easy to use for the majority of average users. BEsides, given the price of PCs now, it might be a good idea if you do build your own PC with all the best features for gaming and make a killer game machine. You could end up starting a business for PC gamers looking for custom machines. Could be a real money maker.
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en.
“Apple for those of us who have other things to do besides just gaming. ” And I do enjoy some gaming when I get the chance but my games are usually strategic vs action (PS, just got my scuba open water certification. Can’t wait for this fall and my trip to the carib to dive.)