Time for Apple to buy Bungie!
That would be funny. Doesn't Microsoft get first dibs on games Bungie comes up with (ie making Bungie 2nd Party)?
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Bungie Splits from Microsoft, Mac Games Ahead?
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That would be funny. Doesn't Microsoft get first dibs on games Bungie comes up with (ie making Bungie 2nd Party)?
Glad they came out and confirmed what everyone was hoping since the rumors started swirling.
Halo 3 rocks. I never got into Marathon, but I'm a huge Halo fan.
Halo 3 rocks. I never got into Marathon, but I'm a huge Halo fan.
IP can be transfered
That may not be entirely true, with the spinoff Bungie could very easily acquire the rights, it just depends how they structure the deal. I would find it hard to believe they would spin off the company and not give them control over their main product.
Or they may be able to do what they want and just pay the royalties if MS still obtains the rights.
They are many ways it could roll out
That may not be entirely true, with the spinoff Bungie could very easily acquire the rights, it just depends how they structure the deal. I would find it hard to believe they would spin off the company and not give them control over their main product.
Or they may be able to do what they want and just pay the royalties if MS still obtains the rights.
They are many ways it could roll out
Macs are such an obvious target for games producers. But you can't understand this unless you forget about Apple's history. Forget about the history of Macs being used in the art and design fields, or its push for the business desktop. Forget about the people who stereotypically use Macs: zealot sniffy fashion-conscious types.
Look at what Apple is now: a home entertainments retailer. iPod/touch + Mac + AppleTV + iPhone.... They're all part of an interlinked circle of home entertainment devices used by younger people, and fashionable older people.
All Apple has to do is rise to the challenge. Really push the boat out on the gaming possibilities of the touch v2, for example, which will involve serious hardware investment. Macs are already capable gaming machines, but they'll have to find a way around the PC market's dispiriting obsession with the latest and greatest hardware -- the average shelf-life of an iMac means that its graphics card is hopelessly out of date by the time a new model replaces it (unless Apple introduce a method of upgrading the card).
But gaming on a Mac is so obvious nowadays. It almost has to happen at some point.
I've said it before and I'll say it again but Apple and Nintendo have an awful lot in common. Both are disruptive and innovative second-party players. If I were Apple, I'd be sending a few executives for meetings in Kyoto.
Look at what Apple is now: a home entertainments retailer. iPod/touch + Mac + AppleTV + iPhone.... They're all part of an interlinked circle of home entertainment devices used by younger people, and fashionable older people.
All Apple has to do is rise to the challenge. Really push the boat out on the gaming possibilities of the touch v2, for example, which will involve serious hardware investment. Macs are already capable gaming machines, but they'll have to find a way around the PC market's dispiriting obsession with the latest and greatest hardware -- the average shelf-life of an iMac means that its graphics card is hopelessly out of date by the time a new model replaces it (unless Apple introduce a method of upgrading the card).
But gaming on a Mac is so obvious nowadays. It almost has to happen at some point.
I've said it before and I'll say it again but Apple and Nintendo have an awful lot in common. Both are disruptive and innovative second-party players. If I were Apple, I'd be sending a few executives for meetings in Kyoto.
From what I've read about them weren't they first an exclusive Mac only game developer?
Actually, after seeing the HaloDS thing, and with awesome touchscreen iPods (in whatever form they'll be in in 5/6 years) that may not be such a crazy idea...
More like Halo 3 Mac-exclusive (apart from the 360) in a few years, doubling the Mac's market share
and no one able to play it because of poor graphics cards.
Some speculation as to the terms of the separation. The thread is rife with ideas. None of them sound as simple as the news lends itself to sound.
Basically I could see Mac games comming from Bungie, but I am sure if the IP is compelling MS will still make money off the deal.
Basically I could see Mac games comming from Bungie, but I am sure if the IP is compelling MS will still make money off the deal.
With 4% market share, it's not exactly obvious. Especially when only a tiny fraction of that will even have capable graphic subsystems.
What would that accomplish, do you think Nintendo - the king of exclusives, would ever work with another company to cash in on its gaming? Please.
I don't know, but game industry is so different today. and computer industry is also VERY different than 1990s.
mac now has 5% market, among this 5%, probably 65% are mini, MB, low-end imacs. among them, how many play latest 3D games? its really a small market if you ask me.
I think Nintendo would work with/for Apple for lots and lots of money and Nintendo keeping any IP it came up with. Oh and Apple would have to bend to Nintendo's rules on pretty much everything. Soooo how many here think Apple would play nice??
Hmm, Apple could make the AppleTV the Pippin 2. I mean it does have the basic power needed to pull off similar games as the Wii. All Apple would need is a compelling gimm.. er, control scheme and they should be in business. Of course then they need games...
I think Nintendo would work with/for Apple for lots and lots of money and Nintendo keeping any IP it came up with. Oh and Apple would have to bend to Nintendo's rules on pretty much everything. Soooo how many here think Apple would play nice??
haha, apple plays nice? not til the world ends
I'm not sure how many of you know this or if it's been mentioned, but Bungie originally programmed only for Macs. Halo was originally designed for the Mac, until Microsoft saw it and bought the company.
Source: Rolling Stone Magazine, Issue 1036
Source: Rolling Stone Magazine, Issue 1036
On another note, however, isn't Halo the only thing that Bungie's worked on over the last several years?
It seems to me like the XBox needed a killer app, and Bungie was struggling at the time (if I recall correctly). Now that MS has established the XBox brand, and Bungie has a ton of money, the split is easy to understand. The only real reason for the absorption of Bungie into MS might have been to preserve exclusivity as a joint venture/partnership might not have been enough. Now that Halo is over, the need for exclusivity is no longer necessary, and the companies have re-split.
It seems to me like the XBox needed a killer app, and Bungie was struggling at the time (if I recall correctly). Now that MS has established the XBox brand, and Bungie has a ton of money, the split is easy to understand. The only real reason for the absorption of Bungie into MS might have been to preserve exclusivity as a joint venture/partnership might not have been enough. Now that Halo is over, the need for exclusivity is no longer necessary, and the companies have re-split.
Uhm
Surely you jest! While Halo's story is in ways connected to Marathon, the Marathon plot-line was WAAAAAAY better than Halo's IMO.
I was incredibly disappointed in how silly and mundane the story for Halo was, coming from Bungie, the masters at complex storylines in a game.
Honestly, the only thing Halo has over Marathon in my opinion is better graphics.
Halo 3 may become the biggest selling game ever, but that's only because young gaming kids these days have never experienced what it's like to play a game that actually makes you think, rather than just run around and kill things.
But hey, maybe that's all gamers these days can handle. Anything with a more complex story than a infant's board book and their attention span wanders.
I sincerely hope Bungie can get back to their roots as a game maker that makes intriguing games, in plot, game play and graphics.
Surely you jest! While Halo's story is in ways connected to Marathon, the Marathon plot-line was WAAAAAAY better than Halo's IMO.
I was incredibly disappointed in how silly and mundane the story for Halo was, coming from Bungie, the masters at complex storylines in a game.
Honestly, the only thing Halo has over Marathon in my opinion is better graphics.
Halo 3 may become the biggest selling game ever, but that's only because young gaming kids these days have never experienced what it's like to play a game that actually makes you think, rather than just run around and kill things.
But hey, maybe that's all gamers these days can handle. Anything with a more complex story than a infant's board book and their attention span wanders.
I sincerely hope Bungie can get back to their roots as a game maker that makes intriguing games, in plot, game play and graphics.
Wow! This is the greatest news I've heard in a long time.
Please bring Myth back...please bring Myth back!
Please bring Myth back...please bring Myth back!
Halo is simply utter CRAP when compared to Marathon's deep storyline, excelent puzzles and wonderful shoot em' up 2.5D gameplay. I tried Halo demo on the Mac and it's just as boring as any Quake out there.
The problem is that the kids nowadays only see graphics and FPS. Marathon was WAY more than that, at a time when Doom, another piece of crap, dominated the PC scene.
I can only remember a great many hours spent on my Quadra 605 with Marathon I and II...simply wonderful games. If they could only develop Marathon 4 with similar originality, I would be happy.
new video card first please
i have enough cpu power to destroy entire worlds, but am stuck using a 7300...::
please, oh please update the macpro video cards before i am no longer able to see the screen without reading glasses...
getting tired of the V12 power coupled with the 50mph spare tires.
i have enough cpu power to destroy entire worlds, but am stuck using a 7300...
::please, oh please update the macpro video cards before i am no longer able to see the screen without reading glasses...
getting tired of the V12 power coupled with the 50mph spare tires.
Maybe they'll make "Hola" as a way to say "Hello" back to the Mac community and give the finger to microsoft's attempts to keep Mac gaming development by Bungie down.
You hurt my brain with that one.
What do you mean "no wonder"? They haven't even had the option to do mac releases since MS bought them. Whether they will now, we'll have to wait and see. If they do multiplatform releases, especially ones that include PC, I wouldn't be surprised if they do Mac as well.