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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by kitsunesoba on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:50AM (#36227494)
> In that era they actively killed off relationships with gaming companies, e.g. the game that eventually became Halo was originally a Macintosh exclusive.

That was Microsoft's doing, not Apple's. Microsoft scooped up Bungie to make Halo an Xbox exclusive (at least initially). This purportedly angered Steve Jobs, who probably wasn't too into gaming himself but understood the appeal it might have to consumers.

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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by flashback2199 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @11:05AM (#36227727)
That isn't the version of history I remember reading about Bungie, but I suppose there are probably differing viewpoints about it. In any case, I do know that John Carmack has said that Steve Jobs told him back then that he should stop working on games and work on operating systems instead, and that he generally did not like them.
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