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Apple Backs Out of Talks to Purchase Game Studio Electronic Arts, Amazon Reportedly Set to Make Offer Instead [Updated]
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Nintendo is like the Apple of video game industry. People also keep predicting doom and gloom for them, but they're doing VERY well.
If we get to dream, I would've preferred if companies like EA would've just dialed back their "corporate crazy" and being sacks of **** in the first place.
That will almost certainly remain a dream as Nintendo is too Japanese to sell to a western company. Odds may be bigger that Apple would acquire Sony.
That’s a lot for a video game company. Would probably be hard for Apple to make it a profitable business. Apple should instead by a studio like warner bros.
I have a gaming laptop that has a 4k screen, best gpu and processor. what I think Apple can improve on over other PC makers is making a laptop that would be thin, lightweight, less noisy and still powerful enough to play most first gen titles. that would be my dream Mac laptop.
Did you know that apple gaming is already really popular on the ipad and iphone? they will in next few years have close to 180 millions subscribers to apple arcade. If you make the games, people will play and pay to own better macbooks. Gaming is a very profitable industry. Apple could definitely expand into this and make a dent into laptop gaming. https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/1...ment bank's analyst,and 70 million for gaming.
I’d be willing to bet that there’s a lot of folks buying games they hear other early access and first purchasers buying that they know to be bad (Madden 2022) just to be in on that hot take action!
And, it is your opinion that a game… available on multiple platforms… would cause an individual to BUY an expensive MacBook in order to play it?
Maybe not buy, but they could certainly work together. Imagine a switch-like device with an A12 chip running a skinned clone of iOS. That would bring fidelity and battery life Nintendo currently can only dream about.
But that would be a very different business model for Apple...
And Nintendo. They tried that early on with their partnership with Sony. Sony got hosed b/c Nintendo ended up ditching them for Panasonic. Nintendo got hosed b/c Sony wanted sizeable royalties since they claimed it was their media that they were working with. FWIW, the Play Station ended up proving itself, and Nintendo ended up doing 3 generations of gaming on optical discs.
Furthermore with joint hardware ventures, both companies are too much "control freaks", or vertically integrated to want to do that. Nintendo did put some of their games on iOS, but those are games that are much better suited for touch screen (e.g. Pokemon Go, Super Mario Run), the expectations of the mobile market (e.g. they won't charge an upfront price of $60). These games will not compete with the games on their own hardware.
Metal doesn't solve Apple's **** GPU's and lack of consumer priced desktops with better graphic options that enable gaming that makes Windows gaming a viable market.
I do have to say, graphics with Apple silicon have made gaming much better and overall performance better. If games were actually custom tuned for Macs it could make gaming more of a thing, and owning EA to do that would potentially drive more hardware sales while rolling in the deep profits of games.
And it's not like anyone can screw up EA anymore than it already is.
Apples GPUs are excellent. And all Apple Silicon machines are essentially gaming consoles (in terms of programmability).
Tim, open the vault and buy Nintendo. A new AR/VR Switch will make all the money!
PLEASE!!! EA ruined BF series with BF2042. I will never forgive them for killing a part of me when they did that.
Don't worry. Even with EA games, there would be no threat of that.
They haven't had very far to fall, EA were garbage in the late 1990s, just look at what they did with Ultima 9
Not really. They were putting out some pretty good/great stuff back then. The Janes Simulation series was rock solid and was well regarding as some of the best flight sims of its era. Need For Speed was also getting high marks. They had Madden and the other sports titles that were very good especially on the consoles. Not everything a company bangs out is going to be great or even good. Even the mighty Nintendo cranks out a dude now and then.
Things started getting bad around 2005 (about the time they started signed exclusive sports deals), IMO.
2042 and portal are dumpster fires for sure but I would go even further and say they ruined it starting with BF1, BF5 was even worse and then 2042 well.
Removing private servers, 3rd party anti cheat and clans/platoons was their downfall. I dont know what smooth brain thought it was a good idea to remove the aspect that helped build a community base and keep players engaged.
The graphics and map design in BF1 was really really good. The rest of it sucked. 😔
EA is tied with Activision / Blizzard. Personally I hate Activision the most for what they did to Blizzard. Also Bobby Kotick is literally Satan.