EA Pledges Support For Mac
Gizmodo is present at Apple's WWDC 2007 shindig and reported this juicy tidbit during Steve Jobs' keynote:
"Now Steve is announcing EA's "return" to Apple. Bing Gordon, EA's Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer is coming up and talking about how his kids live on OS X. Could this be an announcement for lots of EA games on OS X? Yes! Starting in July, they're bringing "four of their biggest titles". Command & Conquer 3, Battlefield 2142, Need for Speed Carbon, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Demoing Harry Potter now. EA Sports Games, like Madden 08, Tiger Woods 08 will also be brought in Fall-ish."
Could this be the start of a new wave of gaming as people get more frustrated with PCs and move towards the alternative [Mac]? If not, it will certainly will make Macs more appealing to those looking for a way out of PCs who don't want to give up their PC gaming...especially if more developers start porting/developing titles for and to the Mac platform.
I would love to see more mainstream and higher quality games come to the Mac. While I don't really game on my MacBook Pro, I use it mostly for business or to have a means of doing business when it comes time to evacuate New Orleans for hurricanes, it'd be nice to have something more than iTunes and Fallout 1 and 2 to entertain me (even though I'll have my DS and possibly a slim PSP by the end of the season). What do you think? Is it a new day or will the sun set after it's over?
Steve Jobs' Keynote WWDC 2007 [Gizmodo]
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Posted to Video Games on 11 June 2007
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Well, im glad to see more support for gaming on macs (i'm writing this from my beautiful 24" iMac!), i hope EA isnt the only company to do so. Because EA games blow. hard. Battlefield 2 was awful, and i've not heard any good things about Battlefield 2142. EA does sports games well, but other than that? not something to look forward to.
Awesome. Now if only EA made any games I gave a damn about playing...
sun set. macs are for creating graphics, not viewing them.
or you could always stick with console games which always look best as the console is made to play games specifically. either way you look at it remember to turn norton off.
It's typical for Mac, they're shipping all these games a year after they came out on PC
Hardcore gamers, which with PC gaming are the bread and butter, are not going to buy Macs. They build their own, and with 3% of the market, Mac isn't going to be priority. id and Blizzard write Linux versions of their games, so they have an easily portable binary, but for most people it requires a complete port to OpenGL and a rewrite of the code.
This all smells of a year deal with some nice incentives for EA because Apple is trying to be taken seriously as a computer for games. If they want to be taken seriously, then they'll let people build their own and go tweaking, but Steve Jobs is too much of a control freak to ever allow that.