Steve Jobs pitched Halo as a game for Mac, but that never happened.
Macs were never devices designed to play games, at least that’s not one of their main strengths. However, more than 20 years ago, Steve Jobs revealed for the first time images of a game that aimed very high, it was called ‘Halo’ and would be released for Mac in the early 2000s. A game that could have changed the history of Mac games.
Macs ran out of Halo because of Microsoft
The announcement was made at the igamesnews Conference & Expo 1999 and The Late Apple Co-Founder Announced “Halo: Combat Evolved”, a game developed by the small business Bungie Studios, as the next game available for Mac computers.
Great games are starting to make a comeback on the Mac, but it’s one of the best I’ve ever seen. It will be released early next year, developed by Bungie, and this is the first time it has been shown to the public.
However, ‘Halo never reached macOS. The game was the subject of a new trailer at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2000 and garnered a lot of attention by positioning itself as a shooter very innovative first person. And that made Bungie Studios, the Halo development team, purchased by Microsoft for a figure of about $ 30 million.
Hello has thus become an Xbox exclusive, which will never be released on other platforms and which has positioned itself as one of the most important exclusive games on the Microsoft console. This upended Apple’s plans to bring a major game to its Macs.
What would have happened if instead of Microsoft it was Apple that had bought this small company? We will never know, what is clear is that ‘Halo’ helped Microsoft sell many Xbox consoles, and that Mac users were unable to enjoy the game.
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