How EA Brought Back College Football....

[jim316]

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...all-video-game....

[simbayless]

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Rob Jones is making sure they doing this game right by restoring that feeling when 2k use to work with EA in the 90's
With that being said I have more faith in this game then I do with Madden 🤷

Btw where is scott O'Gallagher?
Could he be working college basketball on the low
Hmmmmmmm🤔

[TripleCrown9]

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Rob Jones is making sure they doing this game right by restoring that feeling when 2k use to work with EA in the 90's
With that being said I have more faith in this game then I do with Madden 🤷

Btw where is scott O'Gallagher?
Could he be working college basketball on the low
Hmmmmmmm🤔

Pretty sure O'Gallagher is also working on this game. He's the one that initially revealed that everything in the reveal trailer is captured directly from the game.

[J_Posse]

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Rob Jones is making sure they doing this game right by restoring that feeling when 2k use to work with EA in the 90's
With that being said I have more faith in this game then I do with Madden [emoji1745]

Btw where is scott O'Gallagher?
Could he be working college basketball on the low
Hmmmmmmm[emoji848]

That would only make sense if he brought a lot more ex - Visual Concepts guys with him and this was a brand new studio.

From my understanding this is the same exact studio (Tiburon/EA Orlando) that worked on college football prior. With obviously some new (Jones and O'Gallagher from NBA 2K) and different people also involved.

Pretty sure O'Gallagher is also working on this game. He's the one that initially revealed that everything in the reveal trailer is captured directly from the game.

I wonder what was the thought process of putting two more basketball focused talents on college football?

They probably won't be doing any new, radical changes to gameplay - which let's be honest most of the sports games need - but maybe they both have a background in football too?

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[simbayless]

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That would only make sense if he brought a lot more ex - Visual Concepts guys with him and this was a brand new studio.

From my understanding this is the same exact studio (Tiburon/EA Orlando) that worked on college football prior. With obviously some new (Jones and O'Gallagher from NBA 2K) and different people also involved.I wonder what was the thought process of putting two more basketball focused talents on college football?

They probably won't be doing any new, radical changes to gameplay - which let's be honest most of the sports games need - but maybe they both have a background in football too?

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It's like an artist being around his producers for years and soak up some game from them
That's what probably happened to Scott & Rob and bringing that 2k work ethic back to EA!

[illwill10]

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I know Scott OG is a Creative Director. Not sure what Rob Jones is. Wasn't he in Ronnie 2k's spot before Ronnie took over, so he could be a community manager.

I would have loved if there was Dev Diaries for this game, especially with the game being away for over a decade. I would've been interested in watching some BTS look at the process of bringing this job back and Creative decisions

[simbayless]

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It is what it is
But one things for sure
EA or 2k need to bring back college basketball ASAP 🙏

[canes21]

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It is what it is
But one things for sure
EA or 2k need to bring back college basketball ASAP 🙏

I would love for Choops to return, but I don't expect it. The college basketball games went away due to low sales years before the legal issues ever arose.

Now that college basketball viewership is falling, there seems to be even less of a market for the game.

[illwill10]

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I would love for Choops to return, but I don't expect it. The college basketball games went away due to low sales years before the legal issues ever arose.

Now that college basketball viewership is falling, there seems to be even less of a market for the game.

I agree. Matt Brown had a good Extra Points about this. I think we underestimate the development costs and licensing costs for AAA gaming. 2k/EA wouldn't be able to avoid the NCAA license because March Madness is a brand NCAA owns. College Basketball is very niche.

This year is a great extra example for College Basketball. Like the year with Zion, college basketball is at its best when their is a clear face(s) you can promote. A lot of years, there isn't that type of "Face" of the sport(Clark, Reese, etc). Those of type of college basketball players that have casual fans watching regular season games. We saw games in College Football that get 5M-10M views in the regular season. The high level regular season CBB game is getting 1-2M.

The only thing I'm not sure about College Football selling a ton of copies is because it will be current gen only. Besides that, I have confidence that it will sell well

[illwill10]

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They talk about certain games being ''System Sellers'', I think CFB will be a ''current generation consoles seller''. There are going to be people who have held out upgrading to PS5 or whatever it Microsoft is calling their current generation XBox, will now have an excellent reason to move up. The old NCAAf series was "THE" reason I bought a PS2 and PS3, and the PS4, Ionly bought it because I didn't know EA was pulling out of the college football business. Heck, I even bought a PS Vita thinking EA NCAAf would make its way there. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if CFB doesn't give Madden a run for its money at number of units moved. Now I don't foresee it coming close to Madden numbers next year, but this first year back, EA has already caught lightning in a bottle with the huge anticipation of CFB returning.

I get the optimism, but a true "system seller" is going to be GTA 6. I say that because no matter the hype, I think underestimate that College Football is a niche sport. I think anything in 3M-5M copies would be great year for CFB 25, especially when you consider its an current gen only game.

I'm glad that's it current gen only, but I'm almost still surprised that it's not cross gen just to maximize revenue. I only say that because it seems like other genres aren't leaving last gen behind yet. Call of Duty seems to be cross gen and I won't be surprised if NBA2K and EA FC is cross gen as well. So, I'm just surprised that EA CFB 25 is one of the few games that are current gen only this year.

[TarHeelPhenom]

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They talk about certain games being ''System Sellers'', I think CFB will be a ''current generation consoles seller''. There are going to be people who have held out upgrading to PS5 or whatever it Microsoft is calling their current generation XBox, will now have an excellent reason to move up. The old NCAAf series was "THE" reason I bought a PS2 and PS3, and the PS4, Ionly bought it because I didn't know EA was pulling out of the college football business. Heck, I even bought a PS Vita thinking EA NCAAf would make its way there. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if CFB doesn't give Madden a run for its money at number of units moved. Now I don't foresee it coming close to Madden numbers next year, but this first year back, EA has already caught lightning in a bottle with the huge anticipation of CFB returning.

I'm laughing at you acting like you don't know what the Xbox consoles are called with them being out since 2020 lol. In all seriousness, I think the only way we'll see a college basketball game is if an indie company does it unfortunately. But hey, anything is possible.

[GoDucks1224]

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If this game sells over 2 million copies, that’ll be significant. It was a great year for NCAA if it sold over a million. It never held a candle to Madden sales, because NFL is king. So I’m not expecting that at all. They bundled it with Madden hoping that Madden fans would try this game, not the other way around lol. I agree GTA 6 will be a console seller more than this. But we’re about 2 years away from a new generation of consoles, with Xbox rumored to be 2026 and PS6 in 2027, so GTA6 could be a launch title lol.

[illwill10]

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If this game sells over 2 million copies, that’ll be significant. It was a great year for NCAA if it sold over a million. It never held a candle to Madden sales, because NFL is king. So I’m not expecting that at all. They bundled it with Madden hoping that Madden fans would try this game, not the other way around lol. I agree GTA 6 will be a console seller more than this. But we’re about 2 years away from a new generation of consoles, with Xbox rumored to be 2026 and PS6 in 2027, so GTA6 could be a launch title lol.

I agree about the sales point. If they were truly concerned with maximizing sales, they would've made the game cross gen. I'm not comparing to a passion project, im just saying they aren't dependent on CFB selling like a flagship. It's more of a " we just want it to be worth the investment" type of revenue.

I saw those rumors about next consoles. If that's really the case, then I would be disappointed with this generation. At least with the last generation, 2016-2020 we had a lot of quality games. It just doesn't seem like we seen the true potential of these consoles and they're already talking about the next ones. And we still have a speculated PS5 Pro that's supposed to come out later this year. And that doesn't really make sense because Sony doesn't have a new game to showcase. Pretty much, they're waiting on GTA 6 to highlight it

[simbayless]

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I hope they make a video like they did with 13

https://youtu.be/IqX0kCgtImI?si=YWGb_U1Fdxl1lHvq

[illwill10]

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I hope they make a video like they did with 13

https://youtu.be/IqX0kCgtImI?si=YWGb_U1Fdxl1lHvq

That's exactly what I want to see. Seeing that it came out July 12th that year, there's still chance for it. The game has been away for over a decade. I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in watching a "Malong of EA CFb 25 " series