My guess is Apple will announce 3-6 titles as a collaboration with some developers, rave about how M3 brings the power for high-end gaming, roll the games out, and they’ll do reasonably well. Then, Apple will promptly forget about gaming entirely until next year and do the same thing when they need something to put in the keynote…
Next year? The Apple-cycle for gaming is five years minimum. Still remember watching the first Halo-preview and Jobs telling me that it would be a Mac exclusive…
Yup. Gabe Newell (boss of Valve) once said in an interview that Apple’s approach to gaming is to be super excited about it leading up to an event, announcing all kinds of support and upcoming stuff. Then a few months pass and they have completely forgotten all about it and that’s it. Then a few years pass, and another event comes up and it’s “Games! Games! Games!” again aaaand… forgotten. And on and on it goes…
My guess is Apple will announce 3-6 titles as a collaboration with some developers, rave about how M3 brings the power for high-end gaming, roll the games out, and they’ll do reasonably well. Then, Apple will promptly forget about gaming entirely until next year and do the same thing when they need something to put in the keynote…
Next year? The Apple-cycle for gaming is five years minimum. Still remember watching the first Halo-preview and Jobs telling me that it would be a Mac exclusive…
Yup. Gabe Newell (boss of Valve) once said in an interview that Apple’s approach to gaming is to be super excited about it leading up to an event, announcing all kinds of support and upcoming stuff. Then a few months pass and they have completely forgotten all about it and that’s it. Then a few years pass, and another event comes up and it’s “Games! Games! Games!” again aaaand… forgotten. And on and on it goes…