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FIFA '08 headed to Mac?
Personally, I've never really gotten into videogame soccer-- the last soccer game I really loved was Nintendo World Cup way back in 1990. And while I hear that Winning Eleven is the biggest star in the genre right now (although Sensible Soccer, I know, has its fans), FIFA is definitely still competitive. Lots of football fans, I'm sure, would love to see it on the Mac.
So we'll see. Obviously no release date yet (although a good guess would be by the end of '08 -- snicker), and we'll see if EA just slipped up or if they really plan to release this one. But FIFA '08 would be yet another nice addition to the growing line of games for our platform.
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Charles said 5:34PM on 10-07-2007
This will be a huge boost to the Mac market in big soccer countries like Brasil. I bet they sell like four copies, maybe even five.
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Phil said 5:55PM on 10-07-2007
BF2 Please? Thanks :-)
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Nic said 5:55PM on 10-07-2007
@ Charles - you mean big (proper) football countries like....well...erm everywhere else in the world apart from the US? FIFA is a huge franchise and will definately be very welcome on the Mac.
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Hungry Joe said 6:02PM on 10-07-2007
You joke but, presumably being from the U.S., you may be oblivious to the fact that 'soccer' is absolutely massive everywhere else in the world.
I've lost count of the number of potential switchers that have checked that Football Manager is definitely available for the Mac (it is), so who knows.
Admittedly I doubt availability of games is a big deal-breaker for most switchers.
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Nick said 6:05PM on 10-07-2007
Well said Nic. Rugby, cricket and F1 next - let's hear it for the REAL world sports.
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Nic said 6:11PM on 10-07-2007
:-)
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websnap said 6:12PM on 10-07-2007
Wow charles, that was a fantastically naive thing to say (since it's only the most played sport in the world). Ever heard of a continent called europe? I'm sure this will be a huge sell in the UK, France, Spain and Italy. Countries Apple does well in.
I was only going to buy two copies of this game (Wii and DS) but it looks like I may buy a third. Charles, I guess that's Seven copies they will sell.
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Roberto Felgueiras said 6:13PM on 10-07-2007
Nice to see I'm not alone in this. Hope it's true.
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glygly said 6:16PM on 10-07-2007
This is good news for me. Hope the MBP 2.2ghz can handle it
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Zack said 7:11PM on 10-07-2007
Well until they release a new update to the crap they call cider. I will not buy another game from EA that does not run natively on the Mac Platform. The companies need to learn something from Blizzard on how to make good games to run on Mac.
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Mr.Clicky said 7:43PM on 10-07-2007
And finally the Australian League gets a run - and on the mac!. Count me in - now I can be Adelaide and relive losing 6-0 in the final again and again and again :-/
(I'd still buy it EA)
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weisheng said 8:25PM on 10-07-2007
@4: Yeah I remember double checking whether Football Manager was on the Mac before making my first Mac purchase some years back! Don't play that much of it now.
Having Fifa on the Mac would be great, save me the trip downstairs into the freezing cold living room to play Pro Evo Soccer :)
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anon said 9:47PM on 10-07-2007
This would be fantastic!
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dean said 12:36AM on 10-08-2007
mr. clicky... GO VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!
haha.... gotta love archie...
now all we need is pro evo to come to a mac (a macbook at that) so we can really have some proper football!
AFL woul be nice aswel, EA...........
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Paul said 2:38AM on 10-08-2007
It's all about Winning Eleven. FIFA just doesn't compare.
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Kelmon said 2:51AM on 10-08-2007
And this would be interesting news if Apple/EA ever decide to sell these games outside of the US. Currently none of the EA games that were announced at WWDC are available on the UK Apple Store (I'm willing to bet that they aren't on any others outside the US) so that's really going to restrict sales of a game about a sport that the US doesn't care much about. I don't know how well (or not) the EA games run on a Mac under Cider but having the opportunity to find out would be nice.
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davidM said 4:40AM on 10-08-2007
@Kelmon:
I've seen Battlefield 2142, NFS: Carbon and C&C3 here in the Philippines already.
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retro1011 said 5:34AM on 10-08-2007
Good News. Though I don't know why anyone would want to play a arcade style game like FIFA on a mac or a pc. I enjoy playing it on my 360 with up to four friends or online on a nice big tv-screen. The mac-online community won't be comparable.
FIFA on a 15" laptop? nah…
Bytheway, FIFA08 rocks and closed the gap to Evo in my opinion.
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touristique said 7:47AM on 10-08-2007
If could could buy FIFA 08 for the Mac now—which I would love to—can anyone recommend some usb gamepad options for Macs?
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Mike said 10:25AM on 10-08-2007
"... the uberpopular soccer -- sorry, football -- videogame listed for registration ..."
No "sorry" necessary, Mike. The term "soccer" is fine as designation for Association Football. It's just a shortening of the word "association". It's English public school slang in origin -- like a lot of words ending in "er". Likewise Rugby Football is occasionally called "rugger".
Over here in England the television companies now tend to call the game "football" on its sports reports, as if there were no other codes of football played. That's a bit of aggrandisement on behalf of soccer -- and a recent one at that, as older novels and films reveal. (_vide_ _Tom Brown's Schooldays_ or _This Sporting Life_ for example.) There are, after all, many other codes of football: Rugby Union Football (World cup for that on right now), Rugby League Football, Gaelic Football, American Football, and Australian Rules Football.
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