"Just one more...play...thing"

minimacminimac
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
Apple and the Playstation



Do you all remember when Connectix (I think) released this Playstation Emulator or the Mac Platform allowing everyone with a Mac to play Playstation games directly from their computer ?

Well, I never understood the reason why instead of suing Connectix, Sony didn?t capitalised on this, and why Apple did not follow the same path with Sony.

I mean, I see only benefits for both Sony and Apple in this:

-\tSony is not making money by selling the hardware, but the software. Extending their game platform to the Mac means extending the play experience from living room only to the office room and this is great for both Sony and Apple. I mean, for Sony, it also means adding instantly a few million ?Playstation ready? machines overnight.

-\tFor Apple this would be THE SWITCH thing as kids having their game library on Playstation would rather ask a Mac at Christmas than a PC.

-\tApple could promote Playstation games which are often the first released (the best games anyway) instead of struggling to have them released for the Mac, ?only? weeks after they?ve been released for everyone else. Today, the Mac is another platform for developers and it is just not worth developing for it.

-\tI read that the Playstation 3 could actually be a chip rather than a whole new machine. This chip could be placed directly into televisions, DVD players or ? Mac appliances. Apple could build a ?Living room? device that plays DVD, MP3 from the iPod, Playstation games, Photos ?etc. We could even speculate on Apple releasing an iPod like devise that would compete with the Gameboy. The Mac would transfer automatically the game through firewire to the iPod (the only devise capable of running the game this way to avoid piracy).

-\tBoth Sony and Apple could take an advantage over Microsoft which we all know, wants to make it easy for game developers to write games for both the Xbox and the PC.



Really, I don?t get it.



And you, what do you think ?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 10
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    But won't it be more expensive for gamers?? Its much less costly using a TV, and a TV has a bigger screen size and resolutions.
  • Reply 2 of 10
    minimacminimac Posts: 40member
    You don't always play in front of your TV. Sometimes, you want to stop working and play at your computer directly. I think TV playing and computer playing are 2 different things. There is definetely room for both and the success of PC games prooves it.
  • Reply 3 of 10
    jlljll Posts: 2,713member
    [quote]Originally posted by stunned:

    <strong>?and a TV has a bigger screen size and resolutions.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Eh, what? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
  • Reply 4 of 10
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    bigger screen size but less resolution.
  • Reply 5 of 10
    fran441fran441 Posts: 3,715member
    First of all, there was a PC version of the software called Bleem that did nearly the same thing as VGS.



    Second of all, Sony *does* make money now on selling the PSOne. It's not much but they do make money selling them at $50.



    You also have to remember that Sony also markets it's own Vaio PCs so if they wanted a computer to include the ability to play Playstation or PS2 games, it would be theirs.



    Sony didn't let Bleemcast last long on the Dreamcast- only 3 discs made it out from them. They don't want people emulating their games.



    Sony is also afraid that giving PCs or Macs the ability to run console games will mean that people will be more likely to try and pirate the software.



    So I don't think we'll see any type of alliance between any console maker and Apple. You might see the Xbox integrated into some type of PC eventually, but even that's a real long shot.
  • Reply 6 of 10
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Yes, but Bleem sucked. VGS worked quite well.



    I thnk a nintendo emulator (gamecube) would be easier and more effective, as the architectures are moresimilar.
  • Reply 7 of 10
    fran441fran441 Posts: 3,715member
    But you would have to have an entirely new drive to read the discs!
  • Reply 8 of 10
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Then you just hook the GameCube up to your Mac and use its drive...



    d'oh
  • Reply 9 of 10
    cubs23cubs23 Posts: 324member
    speaking of games... could a windows emulator like virtual pc, play pc games? And if so, how well would they run? For example, how would battlefield 1942 run? I just played this, and was instantly hooked, and yet saddened by the fact the mac doesn't have it. So I am just curious about this option.
  • Reply 10 of 10
    rampancyrampancy Posts: 363member
    [quote]Originally posted by cubs23:

    <strong>speaking of games... could a windows emulator like virtual pc, play pc games? And if so, how well would they run?.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Virtual PC was made for unfortunate people like me who have important apps that are never, ever coming to the Mac. (like say, Minitab--damn you, Minitab!) It's worth remembering that VPC is software emulation, just like VGS, but VPC has a much more difficult task to perform, after all, it needs to trick Windows to think that it's running on a 266 Mhz PII.



    That said, it's really not the best solution for games, though I'm sure you could run older games with reasonable speed. Don't think about trying to run games like Homeworld, though.



    If you see some PC games, you really need to run, then my advice to you is to just get a cheap PC. It'll save you a lot of money, headaches and disappointment.
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