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Old 09-01-2009, 11:05 AM   #106
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Re: Competition Creates Better Games is Baloney

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Originally Posted by StormJH1

Let's not forget that if not for Grand Theft Auto IV, 2k Games may very well have been BOUGHT by Electronic Arts, and this whole 2k vs. Madden debate would've become moot anyway. With the exception of SCEA's excellent baseball game (The Show), 2k is the only company even bothering to try and make games that compete with EA, and they're losing money on all of them.
And this is not because exclusive licensing? It is a commonly known fact that a solid pro football game can support an entire sports gaming division. That's why there were so many competitors in the market. Hell, we have companies still making unlicensed football games. That's how much pro football is valued in the sports gaming market. I find it hard....impossible to believe that companies would've just stopped making football games if the license was available.

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Everything is bigger now. It's analagous to the movie industry--something like Star Wars could never happen now, becuase people would never tolerate an action film on a bare bones budget. Throw in a copy of some of these 1990's football games you're talking about, and you'll realize just how bad they are. So, it's tough to look back on those "glory days" and pretend like it's realistic for 2-5 different game developers to split up all their sales making NFL football games--it just can't happen anymore.

As long as we see improvements in Madden like we saw this year (FINALLY), I'm fine with EA having the only game in town, so long as they continue to improve their product and hire the creative minds that would've gone to make rival games at 2k and the like.
This would be true if there weren't companies out there willing to develop a NFL game. Again, I just find that hard to believe. In 2002, NFL Fever pushed the graphical limits. We are seeing the same thing with The Show. You wouldn't think that these first party companies wouldn't develop a NFL game to show off there hardware?
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