OS Myths Case File #1: EA Football
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OS Myths Case File #1: EA Football
As the previews for NCAA and Madden begin coming in this year there has been four common statements which have been treated as facts. These statements have been said for years on end as well, with little to no fact-checking done on them. These common statements are usually taken as fact by users but there is no general consensus why they believe they are true. So in the inaugural edition of the OS Myths, we are going to attempt to bust a few of the myths that surround the NCAA and Madden release this year.Tags: None -
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In the article it stated that Madden is no longer the #1 selling sports game franchise. How is that even possible when football is by far America's #1 sport and there is only 1 licensed game?
What is the #1 selling sports game then? I assumed Madden was always #1 because of football's popularity as well as the fact that it releases on every system imaginable.Send your Midnight Release weirdo pics/videos to my new website: http://www.peopleofmidnightreleases.com!Comment
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If they are such huge football fans why don't they have the intricacies (sp?) of the game included? Games like 2K basketball series have these awesome little touches which are non-existent in EA football games. Actually just have them start with huge gameplay issues (i.e. the battle in the trenches...which isn't there in EA football games).Comment
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Very cool idea for an article. You missed a myth but I'm just assuming that you couldn't find proof that EA Sports is not the devil? JK, looking forward to NCAA and Madden this year.PSN: ScoopBrady
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Re: OS MythBusters Case File #1: EA Football
In the article it stated that Madden is no longer the #1 selling sports game franchise. How is that even possible when football is by far America's #1 sport and there is only 1 licensed game?
What is the #1 selling sports game then? I assumed Madden was always #1 because of football's popularity as well as the fact that it releases on every system imaginable.Games sell worldwide.
Football is definitely the number one sport. But it's not American Football. It's soccer/futbol.
FIFA sits number 1 as the top selling sports game."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
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This fellow Yankee fan has stolen my thunder. FIFA actually outsold Madden last year, which really just means EA is home to the #1 and #2 best selling sports games. It's not like EA is going out of business anytime soon, but keeping Madden very profitable is going to take higher sales than the average game would because of the huge cost of exclusive licensing.Comment
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If they are such huge football fans why don't they have the intricacies (sp?) of the game included? Games like 2K basketball series have these awesome little touches which are non-existent in EA football games. Actually just have them start with huge gameplay issues (i.e. the battle in the trenches...which isn't there in EA football games).Comment
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Thanks for the answer. I actually did think about worldwide figures as well, but I thought that the futbol vote would've been split between Winning Eleven and FIFA, leaving Madden's insane amounts of cross-platform sales in the US to reign supreme. Guess not -- the more you know.Send your Midnight Release weirdo pics/videos to my new website: http://www.peopleofmidnightreleases.com!Comment
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Thanks for the answer. I actually did think about worldwide figures as well, but I thought that the futbol vote would've been split between Winning Eleven and FIFA, leaving Madden's insane amounts of cross-platform sales in the US to reign supreme. Guess not -- the more you know.Comment
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Can the title be changed to "Don't pick on Madden/NCAA"
MythBuster Case #1: NCAA uses a recycled Madden engine each year. - I think this is phrased incorrectly. Most people recognize the similarities between the titles and can come to the conclusion that many of the positives/negatives for the two titles are the same because they share the same base. But I don't think most people say NCAA is nothing but the previous year's version of Madden. I could be wrong, but I never thought that was the general perception. I think there's far more similarities between Madden/NCAA '08 than there was with say, Madden '04 (Michael Vick) & NCAA '04.
MythBuster Case #2: The man on the cover of Madden indicates the focus of the game each year. - Isn't it mostly truth? Especially the past 4-5 yrs? It's funny because you're saying the cover athlete didn't directly correlate with the new "feature" for that year, but in a way you're critiquing Tiburon's success at implementing whatever feature. I think it's easy to see what their intent was. You're trying to make a strictly literal connection with the year's feature and the cover athlete, but it's going to be hard to do because in part Tiburon hasn't done a good job implementing the feature for that year. Most of the features of the past 4-5yrs aren't really relevant today (vision cone, highlight stick, defensive enhancements people want undone (too many interceptions, DBs/LBs reacting to balls unrealistically, weapons, etc. Most of the features aren't significant features for Madden going forward, or it can be argued they shouldn't be). This year I think will be different though; I'm pretty sure the focus will be on presentation. I don't think Brett Favre will tie into any big feature
MythBuster Case #3: The EA Tiburon developers do not watch or care about football. - I'm sure they watch football as we all do. But there's a reason the game is in the state it's in, and it's not because gamers are making them go in the wrong direction/make bad choices. We're going on 4yrs into next gen and the football titles are still arguably lagging behind the current gen titles - which we were complaining about back then. Nobody's saying the game has to be a strict sim. But there are many fundamental football areas the game is really lacking.
MythBuster Case #4: EA is happy because Madden still sells millions of copies each year. - I'm sure EA would always want to sell more. But I guess you were trying to get at EA being "content" on what Madden currently is quality-wise. Hard to say. But I think they're making a mistake not improving the game from a football fundamentals standpoint, and seemingly reaching more towards making Madden more appealing to casual fans.HBO's "The Wire" should rank as one of the top 10 shows EVER on tv - period
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Let's not forget that those sales figures (they're the ones listed in the top 100 in sales for the year thread) only included North America and Europe. I haven't seen the worldwide figures anywhere but I can only guess that when you factor in the rest of the world, FIFA's sales lead increases dramatically. FIFA has been the best selling sports game by a wide margin for quite a while.Comment
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