[bucky60]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

1 - NBA 2K is a different tech than Madden. 2 - NBA players' faces are much more visible than NFL players, meaning any facial likeness features are much higher priority. It's not a matter of can-do or can't-do; Tiburon absolutely can do it. It's a matter of what gets you the most bang for buck when you're the development director deciding which tasks are must-haves and nice-to-haves in a given dev cycle. Mouthpieces (and other facial customization features) clearly haven't been very high on the totem pole at Tiburon for a while, so we get other things added to the game instead.

So faces aren't a priority in Madden so mouthpieces aren't in Madden. But faces are important enough to scan in?