RUMOR - Apple looking to takeover EA?

[Squilliam]

NJ5 said:

Squilliam said:

NJ5 said:
This doesn't seem that unlikely to me. If Apple wants its OS to be taken seriously, having a lot of games running on it is very much needed.

I don't think OS would be an issue really. I can't see how they've suffered significantly not having games when 90% of their potential PC userbase doesn't even play them. To buy them for games on their OS would be like Microsoft adding Blu Ray to the Xbox 360 and only half the movies work.

 

Where did you read that only 10% of PC owners play games?

Even if that's true, in many households the younger family members play PC games (even if they're pirated). It would help Apple if their computers ran those games. The same way that even pirated Windows copies contribute to Microsoft's business, as it gets more people used to their OS, encouraging companies to buy what their users are familiar with. Think of games as part of the critical mass required to increase Apple's market share.

Or I could be totally wrong...

 

Its just a guess at the userbase thing. Anyway in the west at least I think people are moving away from gaming on PC's as its becoming more expensive to do. Once gaming was just a GPU upgrade away, but now your basic Semprom 1600Mhz machine is good enough for your standard office work and laptops are becoming more popular than ever its not so much. It doesn't seem like a big enough market and getting 'just' EA doesn't really help them there, they need critical mass there.