Comments on: E. A. Sports. “It’s in the game…” – just not on the Mac like they promised

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NSteffen.com » Blog Archive » Football Manager 07 for Mac — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:27:03 +0000

[...] Arts also proudly announced releasing future EA Sports titles on PC and Mac simultaneously, but look where that went. So are us OS X users doomed to play Halo and Lego Star Wars for eternity? Luckily, the situation [...]

By: reggielist

reggielist — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:07:40 +0000

jeff,

if you don’t know anything about gaming on the mac, why make comments…

the most used macs are iMacs, mac minis, macbooks… except for the higher end models of the old iMac and all the new iMacs, these machines don’t even have dedicated graphics!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that leaves the “lucky” ones with X1600 or HD 2600 PRO…

ever heard of people running dual 8800GTX cards in SLI at resolutions of 2650 x 1600…

there is no mac gaming… it’s beyond a joke…

Jeff August 17th, 2007 at 4:55 pm 3

I think the graphics cards in the current Apple computer products are fine for gaming;

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:32:49 +0000

@Drew –

Yeah – they weren’t there when this article was written. EA has been on the ball, though. Once the web started griping and givng them hell, they got moving.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:10:42 +0000

Yeah, if you go to apple.com/games you’ll see them. I’m surprised thry didn’t make them a little easier to find.

By: lowell denning

lowell denning — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:48:38 +0000

I do see the four titles now listed on the Apple Store available to order, all with a short wait. We’ll see.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:33:48 +0000

Why dish out more money for a game console when you already have a computer? Then the game console is free.

All I can say is thank goodness Blizzard games are my games of choice regardless of platform so I don’t feel like I’m being shorted. I can only spend time on one game at a time and again luckily Blizzard has been able to hold my undivided attention for years now. Apple should be very thankful for those guys. I know I am.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:45:40 +0000

If you want to play games, get a game console. Just my 2 cents…

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:19:38 +0000

Video cards in Macs (mostly iMacs) are good for casual gaming yes, but when we are asking companies to release games for both systems we need Apple to also take it seriously and offer better video cards in their systems. In PC world you can get any card you want, I admit that wouldn’t work in Apples case, but at least offer more high end cards for those who want to game a lot of their Macs.

I guess my whole point was that theres no point in pushing for game releases on Mac if not even Apple will take it seriously and offer more gamer friendly macs.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:55:11 +0000

I think the graphics cards in the current Apple computer products are fine for gaming; at least at the level most home users will need.

In my case, and, I suspect, the case of many Mac users, I just don’t have time for games. If I did, I would probably by a gaming console. They are way cheaper than dedicated gaming PCs anyway.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:46:03 +0000

@Steve

I would agree that games are not a primary focus for the Mac…and I’m not even saying that EA really needs to release versions on the Mac…

I probably wouldn’t have even written about it, except for the fact that they’re lying about their own product being out. That makes no sense, and is very curios to me.

I also hate win companies clearly have no intention with following threw with something like they said…and I think EA is doing that in this case. They got their chance to be on stage at WWDC (which we all know is watched by WAY more people than those of us that actually OWN Macs), and they got a good chunk of free publicity out of it, and now they’re backing out of what they were saying they were going to do.

That’s just bad business.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:47:36 +0000

Meh who cares? Apple doesn’t even put very good video cards in their machines so its not just EA not taking gaming seriously on the Mac. The day Apple actually offers some quality cards on their machines, specifically the iMacs, as few people buy Mac Pro’s so they can game on their mac, that will be the day EA and other companies consider making simultaneous releases for both PC and Mac. I think we need to take some of the blame on EA and give it to Apple for not taking gaming seriously. I used to play games like no tomorrow on my PC, but since I’ve switched I rarely do it, occasionally when I’m in boot camp, but very rarely as these machines just can’t output graphics very well.