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Electronic Arts delays OS X games

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Mac users are still waiting two months after game maker Electronic Arts promised to increase its development efforts for the Mac OS X platform.

Executives from the world's largest games developer promised simultaneous launches on Windows and OS X platforms at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference last June.

They specifically mentioned the launch of Madden NFL 08, but no OS X version was available when the game went on sale on 14 August.

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I don't play many games, so I don't mind usually playing old ones. But this is one of those lingering issues that keeps some people from switching to Macs.

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Reply#1 - Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:06 PM EDT
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Apple's got to be pretty ticked at EA for reneging on this marketing ploy...

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Reply#2 - Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:13 PM EDT
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I would imagine. Apple's pretty careful about controlling their image and this situation doesn't help.

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#2.1 - Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:50 PM EDT
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