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lapsed_gamer on 06 May 2009
Squilliam said:
I wonder if the Apple console rumours have anything to do with this? If its true then they could essentially force EA to make games for their platform as well. So in the context of creating their own console this does make sense.

 

But do you really have to force EA to make games on a new platform? Exclusives are another matter.



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NJ5 on 06 May 2009

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.



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Squilliam on 06 May 2009
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.

 



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goddog on 06 May 2009
Plaupius said:
goddog said:

did some research apple has cash on had to buy actvision-blizzard , take two, EA. lock stock and barrel.


I used market cap +20% as the sell price for each company vs apples cash on hand......

 

well damn the 35 billion does not seem to have a source, lattest sourced artical has them with 25.65 billion still more then enough cash   http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=Aapl

 

edit

actvision-blizzard  14. 21 B cap

 

Take two 727.28 million cap

 

 

EA  6.77 billion cap

 

 

apples   117.62 cap

 

According to the latest financial report conference call, Apple has some $28.9 billion in the bank. But they also mentioned their policy is to keep the money, not spend huge sums.

where did you find that I had heard that too, but could not find any documents stating as such but idle speculation. 

 



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NJ5 on 06 May 2009
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...

 



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Squilliam on 06 May 2009
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.

 



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sethnintendo on 06 May 2009

I highly doubt it is true but I wouldn't mind seeing them buy EA since I boycott Apple (just hate them) and EA (never released another General Chaos). Makes it a lot easier for me to hate both companies (or the one company) even more. Also, EA is bleeding money right now so maybe that will knock Apple off their high horse.



NJ5 on 06 May 2009
Squilliam said:

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.

 

Are Nvidia and ATI selling less reasonably powerful GPUs than a few years ago?

I mean you could be right but I'm not sure that this movement away from PC gaming is really happening. Even many laptops can play a lot of games with OK performance.

 



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Squilliam on 06 May 2009
NJ5 said:
Squilliam said:

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.

 

Are Nvidia and ATI selling less reasonably powerful GPUs than a few years ago?

I mean you could be right but I'm not sure that this movement away from PC gaming is really happening. Even many laptops can play a lot of games with OK performance.

 

Only if you specify a GPU. Most couldn't keep up with the Wii, let alone anything more powerful.

 



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