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Apple Creating a Gaming Division?

Friday April 8, 2005 5:51 am PDT by Arnold Kim
According to an anonymous report, Apple and ATI have been in talks about either creating or purchasing a Game Development unit.

The purpose of such a division would presumably be to create compelling games for the Mac platform to help attract more PC users to switch to the Mac platform.

Such a move would not be uncharateristic for Apple, as their decision to create Safari as well as many of their iApps were in part to fill a void not provided by 3rd party developers on the Mac platform.

Apple does appear serious about improving gaming performance on the Mac. Recent reports noted that Apple, ATI and NVidia are actively recruiting developers to improve OpenGL performance.
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brap
89 months ago
Sounds quite reasonable, actually. It's not like they don't have the capital to do a Microsoft *coughbungiecough*.

And, um... it's OpenGL :o
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chameeeleon
89 months ago
Did I not speculate in the thread about Apple improving graphic performance that Apple would start developing their own games to accompany iLife and iWork?
Anyways, I think it's a great idea. They live by the "if no one will do it right, we'll just have to do it ourselves" philosophy.
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liketom
89 months ago
yayyy about time but that would mean they would have to up graphics cards in all the cheaper Mac's ?

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Diatribe
89 months ago
Wow. Now that would be something. This is one of the few areas where they are actually lacking. Though what kind of games would be Apple-like?
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Diatribe
89 months ago



And, um... it's OpenGL :o


What's wrong with OpenGL? 2.0 is quite capable and I don't find it to be worse than DX...
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chameeeleon
89 months ago
I think he meant the spelling - as opposed to Open-GL as it was written in the article.
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Diatribe
89 months ago

I think he meant the spelling - as opposed to Open-GL as it was written in the article.


Oh. Ok. Nitpickers. :D :p
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dxp4acu
89 months ago
Pickers of nits.


But, seriously, that would be cool!!! :cool:
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SpaceMagic
89 months ago
Yeh but what would an Apple produced game be like?

Age of Empires from MS is Amazin. One of my favourite games.. What would Apple make? Shoot the Aqua buttons? Je ne sais pas
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BwanaZulia
89 months ago
This is really the best news for Apple and the Mac platform.

Go out there and create KILLER games only available for OSX, market them heavily and let the gamers of the world drool (or buy a Mac).

BZ
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