[Americas Team]

Quote: Originally Posted by canes21

1) They aren't going to build from the ground up. What they can do is overhaul what needs to be overhauled. The Frostbite engine is a good engine and moving to it should benefit the series moving forward. 2) The NFL will not allow EA to skip out on annual releases. 3) Too many games in the past have failed without the license. We at OS may love the idea of a true football game that can be turned into whatever we want it to be, but the truth is the license sells. That is why it is so valuable. You can look at Axis Football if you want, but we're a long ways away from anyone making a football game that rivals Madden in terms of polish despite all of Madden's legacy issues. In my opinion, Madden needs to overhaul as much as they possibly can and clean up as much as they can to allow for a lot of legacy issues to be removed and for new features to be added and expanded on. It feels like we've been told too many times in the past they've spent just as much time fighting the code as they have adding to the game.

If they release Madden on last gen consoles then they wouldn't be skipping out on a year. Taking a year off to release on next gen could allow them more time to clean up and remove legacy code.