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[coogrfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by SpeedyMikeWallace

They only do the bare minimum. They could have gone the Battlefield route and included an install disc for better graphics, but they don't have to push that hard for sales.

Examples of console sports titles that have used that approach would be...?

[SpeedyMikeWallace]

Quote: Originally Posted by coogrfan

Examples of console sports titles that have used that approach would be...?

Not only is that an irrelevant question, it makes you look like a fanboy.Don't be a fanboy.

EA Sports was/is complacent. Madden is lazy. NCAA Football is lazy. NBA Live is one of the worst sports games ever made. Knowing that you don't have to push the limits for sales is why their sales for these games continue to shrink. You can only trick people into buying the same thing so many times before they decide to stick with what they have.

[coogrfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by SpeedyMikeWallace

Not only is that an irrelevant question, it makes you look like a fanboy.Don't be a fanboy.

In other words, you can't.

Quote: Originally Posted by SpeedyMikeWallace

EA Sports was/is complacent. Madden is lazy. NCAA Football is lazy. NBA Live is one of the worst sports games ever made. Knowing that you don't have to push the limits for sales is why their sales for these games continue to shrink. You can only trick people into buying the same thing so many times before they decide to stick with what they have.

The fact that that you can't provide an single example of a multi disc conosole sports title suggests that there might be factors at work here other than "laziness".

[SpeedyMikeWallace]

This is simply poor logic: Because someone hasn't done = it can't be done. EA could do it. So could Sony. So could 2K. However, no one has an incentive to do it, either because they own monopolies in the majority of their sports titles or they're content with their market share.

EA Sports
FIFA
Madden
NBA Live
NCAA Football
NHL

2K
NBA
MLB

Sony
MLB: The Show

Konami
Pro Evolution Soccer


Now, what is the best rated and most popular sports game on that list? FIFA. Why? EA is pushed to beat Pro Evolution, which was routinely outselling it and outperforming it in ratings until recently. It's better because they are driven to not relinquish their market share. However, they know Konami isn't as heavily invested in Pro Evo, so there's no drive to do something like go to a two-disc format, unlike what you see in BF vs COD.


None of this however, means that if EA weren't lazy, if they weren't content with their monopoly on football games, they could include a graphics install, just like anything else. There's nothing unique about sports titles that prevents it.

[coogrfan]

If, as you say, anyone could do it, how exactly does this constitute proof of EA's "laziness"?

[SpeedyMikeWallace]

My perception comes from their long standing practice of charging full price for games produced with minimal effort.