I hope that it's not just a rumor but real !
If the core Bungie engineers can get back their independance, I really hope that we get some cool new games from the various platform Mac included !
I still remember back a while ago the Halo demo at one of the MacWorld keynote...

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"Apple is poised to return to (and take over) gaming."

Puh-lease. I hate to be Negative Nancy, but how many times over the years have we heard this?

I'll believe this is a real possibility if/when:

1) Apple puts a decent 3-D processor in its iMacs, or

2) Apple releases a consumer-priced tower with a replaceable graphics card that actually *accepts* 3rd party cards that are reasonably priced and have robust drivers. This means cooperating with other companies, not exactly Apple's forte. And,

3) Apple puts some serious work into OpenGL.

I read about all these great new games coming to the Mac (Gears of War, UT3, EA stuff), and think "What the heck are we supposed to run these on, $3,000 Mac Pros???" My dual-core Intel iMac with 2 gigs of RAM can barely run UT2004 fast enough to keep from being cannon fodder for the Windows Horde (I get by with my cunning, heh).

Wake me up when Apple actually *does* "return" (?) to gaming (you're implying that they've actually been there before?).

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Oh, it would be so cool. Lets hope so.

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Apple really does need to start making their hardware better for gaming if they want more people buying Macs, and if they want more game developers making their games for Macs. Valve recently complained about this, and it won't be long before they have to do something, or lose all this new market share and publicity.

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Of developing for the Mac, Gabe Newell of Valve (Half-Life) has this to say: "[Apple] seems to think that they want to do gaming, but there's never any follow through on any of the things they say they're going to do. That makes it hard to be excited about doing games for their platforms."

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Imagine: Halo 3 for Xbox and Mac only, that would boost apple's profits :D

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Well, I'm as big an Apple fan as anyone here, but Bungie have changed the world of online gaming, Halo 3 is the greatest gaming creation yet and I'd hate to see them stop developing for the Xbox 360 platform.

Hopefully any such changes to Bungie will just expand their horizons, as if MS do one thing well its online console gaming..

I for one hope the Bungie thing is just a rumour. I say leave gaming to consoles and let Apple continue to innovate the computing world! iPhone 2.0 please!

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Oh look, it's October. Must be time for a new "Apple Getting Serious About Gaming" rumor.

No, they are. F'real! You just watch!

Puh-leeze.

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Please Bungie, make an Oni 2!

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If this is even vauely true - I'm in heaven. God I love all things Bungie...

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Sorry to burst people's bubbles... not only have we had the whole "Apple to get back into gaming!!!" rumor before, but Apple seriously taking over gaming? Hell no.

Until the day Apple starts putting good accelerators into MBPs and iMacs, it simply won't happen. Macs will always be a good market for simpler, casual games that don't tax the machine, but if Apple wants to capture hardcore gaming they'll need to step up the hardware.

And we all know how likely that is to happen.

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Unless Apple commits to building a unified API for game developers (ala DirectX on Windows) I don't see Apple making any serious inroads into the computer gaming market.

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Riiiight. His Steveness hates games, regarding them as a waste of time.

Of course, while I'd like to play.. I don't have time now to do anything remotely game like, so I guess it's a wash anyway.

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There's no way Microsoft is going to let Bungie go. They just released Halo 3 and it's a smash hit. Why on Earth would they dump Bungie now?

Secondly, if Bungie did become independent, they certainly wouldn't focus on Mac games. The market is miniscule compared to PC's and consoles. Bungie is one of the elite of game companies now and breaking sales records with Halo, you don't throw away that kind of market and revenue to sell a few games to Mac users.

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For Mac gaming to overtake PC gaming would take more than a consumer-priced game-centric Mac. It would require a paradigm shift in gamers' minds.

Even worse, considering how PC gaming itself is a miniscule market compared to the consoles, the Mac-as-game machine sits somewhere way behind last place -- it's not even on the same page.

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Bungie didn't sign a deal to just creat Halo for Microsoft.... Microsoft bought Bungie which means MS owns the company. Therefore Bungie has no say what-so-ever in what platform they develop for. Sorry to say this is a bad rumor, and shouldn't have even been reported on.

Of course the developers could splinter off and do their own thing but seeing as how Halo3 has raked in over 300 million in a week... I doubt they would want to jump off the gravey train anytime soon to develop games for OSX.

Also read Quix's post #2. He makes very good points about the state of Mac gaming.

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Yeah, I don't see this happening. When the biggest Mac gaming announcement this year was EA slapping an emulation wrapper around a bunch of their franchise titles, we are a long way from Apple dominating the gaming scene.

Not that I wouldn't like more games to play on my MacBook Pro (which is fairly nifty - I have WOW running at 1400x900 with all settings maxed and it's running at a solid framerate).

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This might finally be the overreach that all the Apple haters have been waiting for, but I'd be fascinated to see what Jobs et. al. would come up with. It seems like all the pieces are there to make a move.

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personally... i think Microsoft and Apple should come to some agreement to team up and DOMINATE the gaming world... Microsoft came to Nintendo and Sony respectively to make a joint gaming system before Xbox 1 and were turned down obviously... imagine what things would be like if we had a REAL Wii60... thier would be non Sony or they would definately not be sitting on thier piece of shyt PS3... so imagine the possiblities if thier was so iBox or something... obviously its probably not going to happen anywhere in the near future but who knows

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Sorry.. not buying this one. I just don't think that it makes sense for Apple to get into this market.

I do think we might start to see some low-end games from Apple. One of the problems with the gaming market is that there's a significant amount of time required to invest and a steep learning curve for most games. It works for a small percentage of the population, but not the majority of folks. I think there definitely is a market for games that you can load up and pass the time in. Games that are more arcade like.

Is the console market really all that profitable for Sony right now?

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