OS Roundtable: Do You Have Confidence in Next-Gen Sports Game Launches?

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[da_centa_fielda]

No. The trend this entire generations has shown that buying games on release day is a waste of time and money. Games end up being completely different from when it was released after a couple of months. By the time games are playable in the way it should have been at release, the games are probably half priced by then. Madden, for example, will leave you frustrated because we end up having to start a whole new franchise to take advantage of updates that should have been in the game initially.*

[KennyJ1976]

Why people still pre order games now is beyond me. *The ony way I would even consider it is if the game has a demo, and that still doesn't guarantee the game will be finished on release day. *Plus most games are on sale a month or less after release anyway. *

[ajs41072]

I'm not, because usually it's the third iteration of a sports game that it starts to play well enough to notice any difference between it and the past generation's game.**

[TSGuy]

thing im most worried about is that whenever sports games leap into the next gen they take away soo many features and do it all over again and wait at least a few iterations for features to comeback. I really hope that's not the case again

[ToughJuice]

Launch? None of these companys have done anything that should instill any confidence in anyone.*

[TheBadazz]

All we get is a graphic upgrade, nothing more. Probably with the same legacy bugs. No confidence. That's why backward compatibility is so important.* I still can't see how boxing missed a whole console generation?

[GlennN]

Not even a little bit. We have gone from having choices in the major sports to having one pro football, zero college football, one hockey, one baseball (if you are lucky) and one basketball game. Not surprisingly, there is such little innovation that I do not buy any of the sports games on an annual basis anymore (as compared to when I would buy multiple games for the same sport). We are well into the dark days of sports gaming, and, with the focus on online and card modes (and the technology acting as a bar to entry for smaller developers), things are likely to get worse rather than better. I really cannot see myself buying the next generation console.