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Apple Serious about Games?

Good. Port me some DS games to run on the iPhone.

If Apple can get developers to make games half as good as the Nintendo DS's games, on the iPhone using the multitouch screen, it'll be spectacular. Something like Elite Beat Agents...maybe a Mario Kart type game with a steering wheel on screen...
 
Stay Tuned

Peace said:
This is yet another sign of things to come ever since Apple Computer,Inc. became Apple,Inc.
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Well said, Peace.
Yep, you better beLIEVE the two (name change + gaming rumor) are not mere coincidence. And certainly not the only "Huh? Whoa!" offerings coming out of Apple, Inc. the next decade.
 
I dont belive it

I dont see apple doing this at all. maybe for ipod style games, but nothing big at all. and it will be another thing to clog up itunes. They keep adding responsibilities to it, and its is no longer just a movie player.i wish itunes was for music, and something else for movies. like delicious libraary or something. i tunes is feeling like a PC app more and more to me.
 
Credible offerings to spur or supplant third-party offerings

I'm about to switch (back) when Leopard comes out. I'm excited about iWork and so forth, but Apple can't be the developer for the hardware, the OS, and all of the real programs. I'm concerned about the reports that OS M(obile) on the iPhone will be restricted to Apple programs, as the ipod is restricted to games from the iTunes Store. Long live Ambrosia and the independent and fanatical developers. If Apple gets serious, let it be to show developers that Apples are worth porting to and developing for, not to make such a big splash that there is no reason for developers to consider the niche of the market.

But to the bottom line, what can't Macs do better than Windows? Feel free to add to the list: (1) games, (2) breaking/losing data/being zombified by malware

Some people won't switch if they can't game. Me, I'm just a casual gamer so the expectation that Unreal T III will be ported will be good enough for me.
 
SheriffParker said:
They'll make a game where you have to go around converting PC users with your smugness and condescenscion. It'll be awesome.

The end boss will be the biggest box of Vista Ultimate edition ever, and it will fly around like an aero effect while shooting BSODs at you.
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that may be the funniest thing i've heard all day...
 
multi-touch

Apple are so far behind in games development that I find it hard to believe. However the iPhone is a new platform and the multi-touchscreen possibilities for games means there is a new genre that they can lead.
 
There's no way in hell Apple would start creating the next Far Cry/Half-Life/Doom/Halo/whatever-franchise. The reason is simple. Even if Apple Inc. is awesome in creating hardware and software, it doesn't mean they will be awesome at creating games or be able to hire John Carmack to create games for them.

Also, right now neither the iPod, AppleTV or the iPhone incorporates graphics specs good enough for any serious gaming, so I believe they'll try to slice their way into casual game market. If they can create the next Bejeweled, it could be a luxurious market with three different apparatuses letting you play the same game (large customer base) with very low costs.
 
SheriffParker said:
They'll make a game where you have to go around converting PC users with your smugness and condescenscion. It'll be awesome.

The end boss will be the biggest box of Vista Ultimate edition ever, and it will fly around like an aero effect while shooting BSODs at you.
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Sounds a bit like xbill.

In general I expect this Apple game development to go mainly in the direction of iPhone, iPod and AppleTV games. Some small games (like chess which comes with OS X) might also come from them for the Mac. But I really doubt they will make any high profile games for the Mac.

Making an Apple gaming console is not really an option I guess. The market already has 3 major players. Microsoft spent billions to get into this market. Apple probably cannot afford that even if they might need less money to do it.
 
ShaneOMac said:
If they wanna get serious about games, they need to release a good Core 2 Duo tower! Above the specs of the imac and below a Mac pro, without a monitor!
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You are assuming Apple won't be abe to make amazing games without all the power current gamers require. What's the betting Apple will have a trick or two leveraging Leopard?

iAlan said:
iPippin

or even

:apple:Pippin
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Remind me who was Apple CEO when Pippin came out?

blueflame said:
i tunes is feeling like a PC app more and more to me.
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You mean it freezes, crashes, fails to work, hangs, restarts, spends all the time it is working running updates ...? Are you sure it's iTunes you are running not Office? :confused:
 
darwen said:
I am a little confused with the plan here... how do games fit into the grand scheme of things at Apple?

It would be awesome to see cool games on the iPhone. Maybe our missing app is a games menu??

Still though, the game industry is so over populated I dont see any real money in it for Apple. What device could they create to run any games they develop? Is game development for Mac OS X really a possible profit for them? They certainly cant be working on a console... that would be a waste of R&D money. As for the :apple:TV, the remote cant be all that great of a controller. The iPhone and iPod look like the two only decent gaming devices... and I doubt great games are going to be the reason for buying either device.
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The games market for Yahoo, PopCap, Flash-based type games is much bigger than the console/Pc gaming market. Infact most people don't even consider companies operating in areas other than graphical PC games and consoles titles as in the games industry. Most games don't sell that many copies and cost alot to produce. Apple have a largely loyal userbase to sell games to and a distribution model that could offer cheap games and see large sales numbers.
 
wild prediction:

Apple is going to take a leaf from their own book and Nintendos and release games only for their systems. Systems include AppleTV and the Apple computer ranges. Games with scaleable gameplay and visuals will be shrunk for iPod.
More compatability with game controllers, all games feature a unified built in menu system similar to the Xbox 360 (something I'm surprised Vista doesn't have).

It's wild but... y'know
 
Umbongo said:
The games market for Yahoo, PopCap, Flash-based type games is much bigger than the console/Pc gaming market. Infact most people don't even consider companies operating in areas other than graphical PC games and consoles titles as in the games industry. Most games don't sell that many copies and cost alot to produce. Apple have a largely loyal userbase to sell games to and a distribution model that could offer cheap games and see large sales numbers.
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Exactly right.

Imagine all the traditional board games such as Monopoly played by a family sitting round the 50" HD TV ... Clue, Snakes and Ladders ... the possibilities are endless.

Plus I think new game genres and possibly even games that previously required ridiculously powerful video cards and CPUs may be possible on modest* Macs (*by which I mean modest current generation Macs) linked to ATV due to Leopard. As I said earlier I suspect with the new graphic capabilities built into Leopard made possible by Core Animation we are going to get some pleasant surprises.
 
Umbongo said:
The games market for Yahoo, PopCap, Flash-based type games is much bigger than the console/Pc gaming market. Infact most people don't even consider companies operating in areas other than graphical PC games and consoles titles as in the games industry. Most games don't sell that many copies and cost alot to produce. Apple have a largely loyal userbase to sell games to and a distribution model that could offer cheap games and see large sales numbers.
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Then you have the vision of the Wii. Just like the DS has board games and stuff for "non computer game players", so will the Wii as part of Nintendo's new strategy.

Apple will have to do something clever, as an entity that is not synonymous with gaming at all to jump into an already oversaturated market.

Oh, and the "Yahoo, PopCap, Flash-based type games" is not a bigger market than console games. Your doing the thing where you count every PC as a gaming platform when that isn't the case. Even the freeware world doesn't get the same number of players as those 4+ million that some console games get.
 
New Game

If they'll release a FPS, i think it will look that way:
The name of the game will iKill.
The main protagonist will look a kinda storm trooper from Star Wars with blue apple logo on his helmet. There'll be mounted at his shoulders some kind of weapon, called iShoot. It will be the only one you can use at the game , but it's enough, because it is the best and most sophisticated gun in the universe. It will target and shoot the enemies alone, when it needed. If several enemies attack - iShoot defines what is a danger order and take them all down, starting from most dangerous to weakest ones. When you'll get several options where to go, there'll be special IA tracking devise - iLead, that will tell you which way is a right one. So the only thing you need to do here - just walk from start the game to its end. You wan't even need to collect the red and blue keys to open the levels, because you'll get a special universal key, that opens all doors out of the box.
And one nice bonus - for only extra 50$ you'll be able to upgrade the main character from white storm trooper to cool liquid black dart wader with dark-blue gloving apple logo on his chest.
 
if they sold computers that had good quality logic boards and pwer supplies id be all for it...


get your house in order apple...then take over the world...
 
Digitalclips said:
Plus I think new game genres and possibly even games that previously required ridiculously powerful video cards and CPUs may be possible on modest* Macs (*by which I mean modest current generation Macs) linked to ATV due to Leopard. As I said earlier I suspect with the new graphic capabilities built into Leopard made possible by Core Animation we are going to get some pleasant surprises.
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Well, Leopard will make it easier to make use of the available hardware resources, but it will not create new ones. Graphically intense games (not all of them though) already make good use of the resources available. Better available frameworks like DirectX on Windows make it easier for developers to access the resources and thus lower development costs. But leopard wont make it possible to display graphics which requires a high-end gaming graphics card today on, let's say, a current MacBook.
 
I don't care who makes them, but I'd like to see more family-friendly LAN games like Myst Online: Uru Live , which apparently relaunches for Windows today with a Mac port still in beta.

I walked by a PS3 in Wal-Mart, the other day, because the only games on the shelf were shoot-em-ups and sports games, neither of which I find entertaining.
 
holamiamigos said:
what happened to that whole apple-nintendo thing?
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Sadly, nothing more than a pipe dream.

Serious gaming cannot be had unless the release a game console that people would shell out for. This just isn't going to happen. Or I should say that I hope like heck it doesn't happen. If they want to put iPod style games on the :apple: TV, fine, but to release a full blown console would be idiocy. Especially since there would be very little innovation that Apple could bring to this market.
 
Yawn, I cant get excited at all about pod & phone games and Apple's history with the gamer and lack of video cards is well written. Where have they been for the past 10 years? Apples hardware has done more to kill off Mac gaming then anything. Playing model line vs model line has killed off Mac Gaming and Mac marketshare to the point Apple is forced to now run windows. Pod Games:rolleyes:
 
Dont Hurt Me said:
Yawn, I cant get excited at all about pod & phone games and Apple's history with the gamer and lack of video cards is well written. Where have they been for the past 10 years? Apples hardware has done more to kill off Mac gaming then anything. Playing model line vs model line has killed off Mac Gaming and Mac marketshare to the point Apple is forced to now run windows. Pod Games:rolleyes:
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EXACTLY! I'm tired of everyone spewing that Apple is even going to be recognized in the gaming market, let alone come up with the next X360 or Wii. These will be small games to run on the limited graphics capability of iPhone and iPod. Oh, and Apple and Nintendo will not merge or work together, or ever considered such. So relax.
 
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