Steve Jobs Got Mad After Microsoft Bought Bungie

[Usersname]

...GFX card based on AMD and Intel… Sorry, that should have read AMD and Nvidia and Intel (if using the lathers restrictive integrated GFX solutions).

 

[belardo]

[citation][nom]reconspartan[/nom]There IS a MAC version of HALO.[/citation]

Yeah, I know. Talking about before the ports... and they are poor ports. Projects that were in the works are canceled, etc etc.

Then again, HALO might have been a different game as well.

HALO, isn't actually a great game. Story is very good, music rocks, concept is very good and generally some very cool maps. It has 2~4 lame lame maps such as going through the 30+ some odd rooms that are exactly alike, or spending 40+ minutes going up and up and up the same level. Multi-player maps generally sucked with most people stuck on blood gulch. All multiplayers looked the same - IF they had a brain, players should have been able to choose ANY of the characters of the game as well as other technical issues.

The PC version of Halo is such a mixed bag that more people play the free DEMO version than the paid version... ie: the demo is good enough.

 

[Simple11]

I never known anyone to buy a mac for gaming anyhow.

 

[badaxe2]

Steve Jobs Got Mad After Microsoft Bought Bungie


So did PC gamers.

 

[rohitbaran]

[citation][nom]vektsilver[/nom]this is just a blatant back track lie of a story.Steve Jobs never thought Gaming was important to MAC which is why support for games was always on the backburner.Steve Jobs was actually a negative force when it came to gaming. This is just another article trying to change the image of MACs so they can be a gaming platform too.[/citation]
Oh really? Why then all the buzz about marketing the iPhone and iPod touch as do it all gaming devices? Apple can't ditch gaming because no matter how dumb or smart people are, they do play.

 

[badaxe2]

Also, what a bitch Balmer is, leaving his underlings to do his dirty work.

“As soon as we announced we bought Bungie, Steve Jobs called,” Fries said. “He was mad at [Microsoft CEO Steve] Ballmer and phoned him up and was angry because we’d just bought the premier Mac game developer and made them an Xbox developer.”

“So, during the day, I got an email from Steve Ballmer asking me to phone Steve Jobs and calm him down about the whole thing,” he added.

It's one thing for a PC software company to seek out a console system seller. But completely another to take a sh*t on PC gaming in the process. Being the biggest company in the world with the most cash, you'd think Microsoft would be able to support both simultaneously.

 

[NuclearShadow]

I will always remember Bungie not for the Halo series but for the Myth series.
In fact I just recently reinstalled Myth 2 and started playing again after all these years.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]usersname[/nom]XBox has been a commercial disaster, I'm not even sure if MS have yet turned (much of) a profit on that particular division. They hadn't last time I looked. DirectX 9? Yep, wonderful…cough.[/citation]
The Xbox is a commercial disaster? Are you smoking crack? The Xbox is one of the most profitable divisions at Microsoft.

 

[cookoy]

it was valiant of Steve Ballmer to try to appease a pissed-off competitor, someone you don't brush aside lightly.

 

[WarraWarra]

Why was he so upset ? dew to his interference Apple might have never seen anything game related then he cries over some pet peeve he just barely permitted in his Apple world and when someone takes it away he gets upset ???

Stuff will grow Jobs/Snobs you can not stop progress as hard as you try or as crappy your pc's become to promote your latest craze cloud computing.

So this is where he lost his marbles, dang now finally we know.

Some hungry German dude in the 1930's lost his marbles about food he saw thru a window.

Amazing what sets some people off and what they do with that anger = build broken glass iPhones / gas chambers. Tisk Tisk

 

[Maxor127]

[citation][nom]jescott418[/nom]Come on, at the time Apple hardly had any computers except for the expensive Mac Pro that could really play games well. I mean most of Mac's today even desktops still use Mobile versions that are good for media but marginal for heavy gaming. Steve Jobs has never expressed a big interest in gaming. Even if you look at some of the games for the iPad they are hardly what a gammer would consider high quality. They may be fun. But their is a difference.[/citation]
Too bad Mac Pros didn't exist back then. All Macs could play games back then. It is true Steve Jobs has never been interested in gaming, and that's always hurt Macs because the computers were advertised as being strictly business or education machines. I agree, Apple should've bought Bungie themselves. Anyone who isn't a 360 fanboy should be angry at Microsoft for buying Bungie because they killed Halo's potential, and turned Bungie into an Xbox whore. It probably started the "console port" trend where a game is stripped down to work on consoles, and the PC version is an afterthought. Bungie was one of the best developers before the Microsoft acquisition, and now they're just overrated.

 

[WarraWarra]

PS> what is up with his rap dance in this photo is he not too old or did he loose his walking stick and tried not to fall when the photo was taken ??
Looks like he is 80+ years old and too poor to get a razor from the salvation army to shave with.

 

[rohitbaran]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]The Xbox is a commercial disaster? Are you smoking crack? The Xbox is one of the most profitable divisions at Microsoft.[/citation]
So profitable that Goldman Sachs advised MS to make a separate company out of it. I don't know which world username lives in.

 

[tayb]

Appl

 

[pwnagehobo]

[citation][nom]vektsilver[/nom]this is just a blatant back track lie of a story.Steve Jobs never thought Gaming was important to MAC which is why support for games was always on the backburner.Steve Jobs was actually a negative force when it came to gaming. This is just another article trying to change the image of MACs so they can be a gaming platform too.[/citation]
Or is it just that he gave up on games once he lost bungie, so he tried to convince everyone that gaming was pointless?

 

[tayb]

[citation][nom]The_Trutherizer[/nom]Funny how Apple would not through PC/Microsoft a rotten bone if they were dying in a ditch, but the MS does one thing that Jobs does not like and he goes on a tantrum till he gets his way. Childish...[/citation]

If the situations were reversed Apple would have done the exact same things. Why? The same reasons Microsoft did it back in the day. Anti-trust. Microsoft didn't want to appease Apple nor did Microsoft care to appease Apple but what Microsoft did care about was Anti-trust nonsense from the US and from the EU. That is why Microsoft did stuff like this and it is exactly why Apple would have done stuff like this if the situations were reversed.

Besides, how in the world is this a tantrum? This happened literally a decade ago and we are just NOW hearing about. Not much of a tantrum eh? Well, unless you are a fanboy like yourself then EVERYTHING Steve Jobs or Apple does is waaay over the top. Amiright?

 

[Usersname]

[citation][nom]rohitbaran[/nom]So profitable that Goldman Sachs advised MS to make a separate company out of it. I don't know which world username lives in.[/citation]

[citation][nomVladislaus[/nom]The Xbox is a commercial disaster? Are you smoking crack? The Xbox is one of the most profitable divisions at Microsoft.[/citation]

From Gamesindustry.biz

"Goldman Sachs: Microsoft should split off 'unprofitable' Xbox dept
Analyst Goldman Sachs has downgraded Microsoft share recommendations from 'buy' to 'neutral', and suggested that one way to resolve the firm's apparent difficulties is to split off its consumer entertainment division."

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2010-10-06-goldman-sachs-recommends-microsoft-splits-off-unprofitable-xbox-division

 

[InTheCity]

Steve Jobs is a joke, as is Apple.

Their entire Mac Pro platform is based on this idea that Mac components are somehow more stable than that of a PCs. When the vast majority of PC users know they could build a Mac equivalent for half the price. Complete with dual 6 core Xeons if need be.

But the biggest blunder of all isn't the obvious point that Ive made here, its that all of these top of the line products don't function as they should on the OS. Compare the Macs best video card to that of a PC and you'll find its easily 4x - 6x slower. And that's the reason, games are to no avail on OSX, because OSX is a fat let down.

And as a 3D artist, who works at various companies in San Francisco, I see companies who are insistent that their entire pipeline consists of Mac pros only. Then, you find yourself in the unfortunate position of working on a machine that handles far less polygons than the 8 core workstation I have at home.

 

[Khimera2000]

[citation][nom]kezix_69[/nom]In my opinion, other than the creation of Xbox Live, Microsoft has been a virus for the gaming community. The XBOX is great and all, but they haven't helped the problem where all gamers are split up on all their respective little platforms with no way to play together.I think it is completely annoying that to be able to play Call of Duty: Black Ops with all my friends I'm going to be buying a PS3 and PC version. I'd be buying the Xbox version as well if I owned one but having to deal with two different platforms is annoying enough as it is and the PS3 is just plain better all around with the exception of the Xbox Live setup which isn't free so not sure that it's really better anyway.....[/citation]

They tried this on quake 3 (or was it doom) on the dreamcast... sails tend to slump when every body on one platform is getting slaughtered on the other. also i think unreal tournament 3 had cross platform to.

seeing how microsoft is intergrating there live service across the board i wouldent doubt that there could be another attempt at another cross platform multi play. at the least xbox and PC.

 

[bak0n]

how many times have I heard "mad" and "steve jobs" in the same sentence? More than I can count without using exponential numbers that's for sure.