Breaking It Down: Who Will Bring College Sports Back?

[RaychelSnr]

It has been eight months. How much longer do we have to wait?

The sad and unfortunate truth is that nobody knows. College sports have left the video game world and shut the door behind them. When EA Sports announced that they would be discontinuing the NCAA Football series, a significant portion of sports gaming disappeared – just like that. The real question becomes: how much longer are we going to have to wait, and who is going to be the one to bring college sports gaming back?

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[Gramps91]

The things I would do for a new college basketball game.

[bigdoc85]

I don't think we'll see anything soon. Demand among sports gamers for college sports games is high, but demand is not that significant when the entire gaming community (and the types of games purchased) is considered. It's just not worth the risk for someone to dive into this space.

[TreyzAllDayz]

PLEASE EA or 2K, bring us college hoops back! And college football.

[Junior Moe]

The most likely candidate is EA sports, for obvious reasons. NCAA football is the most profitable college license so if there is a way to get back in that market EA is in.

College Basketball has a smaller market that I don't think could support 2 games enough to be profitable. A better route would probably be to release a Hoops game every 2 or 3 years. Add a MyPlayer mode and offer a nice sized patch at a small price (20$) each year with gameplay updates and updated rosters (if its allowed), if not update fictional rosters to mimic the real life teams a little more. Allow us to purchase and play with some historic college squads online. After a few years the game could turn a profit.

[RandallB21]

Fully custom sports games are my dream. Open sourced so modders can go crazy. If I ever hit the lottery...

[brent3419]

our best bet would be ea to bring back their college series with a new ncaa football game some where down the line and it sucks we were one year away from having atleast one college football game on next gen consoles, but more people play football and it has a fan base made in it

[rtkiii]

Most likely no one until colleges and game companies agree on royalties. Nothing is going to happen for awhile so speculation of who is really pointless and not ground breaking at all.

[thomguy123]

LongShot games were looking to build a new college football game and it looked real promising. They didn't get enough Kickstarter funds and temporarily discontinued production about a year ago. Hopefully more people will look into it.

[treq21]

I dont think it will ever come back. Theres not enough money to be made and with the obannon thing, its a major headache

[Dazraz]

I don't think we'll see anything in the next 5 years.

[SVCbearcat10]

I don't think we will ever see one again, or one that people will want to buy. With all the money and politics involved in college athletics now, it's only a matter of time before the power conferences do something. I think we will eventually see a minor league system like the MLB and NHL have (NFL will throw millions around to prevent this because they basically have a free development system). These programs have the means and funds to pay players that mid-majors and smaller schools do not. If there is a minor league system, no one would buy the college game because the best players would no longer go to college. If power conferences split, there's a chance of a game but I feel as though not as many would buy because only power schools would be playable. This is going to take years and I expect no one to risk a lawsuit making a barely profitable game at best.

[TheJokester117]

Re: Breaking It Down: Who Will Bring College Sports Back?

Unforunantely, due to O'Bannon vs. NCAA, I doubt you'll se another NCAA game again. Maybe if he wasn't such a scrub in the NBA, this lawsuit never would've happened.

[malky]

Unforunantely, due to O'Bannon vs. NCAA, I doubt you'll se another NCAA game again. Maybe if he wasn't such a scrub in the NBA, this lawsuit never would've happened.

Then it would have been another scrub doing the same thing. It was bound to happen.

Ncaa football will be back, too much money to make with the new playoffs about to kick off. Plus the NBA is about to set the age minimum to 20, so that makes College Basketball more appealing. All of which says Money talks and these knuckleheads will sit down eventually to decide how to slice the pie and BAM, we have another college football and basketball game.

[ericromain]

I like the completely customizable sports title idea. I remember playing a lot of Super Play Action Football for SNES where it had the NFL, but you could also play College or High School, and you entered your own custom name and picked your team's helmet/jersey/pant colors. Kind of crude by today's standards, but i thought it was amazing to play as my future high school back in 1993. Pro games today are all about licenses, but they never give us the option to create our own separate league, at least not well.