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| TigerClaw |
Just when you thought things could get worst with EA owning the rights to the NFL, This happens.
This posted from Gamespot.com.
Electronic Arts broke the calm of a national holiday today by announcing a licensing deal of epic proportions. For the next fifteen years, EA will be the sole licensee of the ESPN brand in the area of sports games, which will include console, handheld, PC, and wireless games.
Games with leverage the ESPN brand will make their way to retail sometime during calendar year 2006, "upon the conclusion of ESPN’s existing video game licensing commitments."
The news is the second blow to current license-holder Sega (and its Visual Concepts development studio). It recently lost the right to publish sports games using the NFL license when EA scooped that license up. Now, it loses the right to the ESPN brand as well.
In a statement released just minutes ago, the world's largest game publisher said, "The relationship will include established EA SPORTS franchises--which will be enhanced by ESPN telecast, print and online content--as well as new sports games to be published by EA based on ESPN media properties."
The agreement is for fifteen years "with an option to terminate after ten years under certain conditions," the statement said. The agreement gives the publisher "exclusive first rights" to all ESPN content for simulation sports games. |
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| kypez |
| Madden 2005 is amazing. Thats all i gotta say. |
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| InterMilan31 |
| ummm isnt this good news ea owns espn football now they litterally do. |
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| TigerClaw |
| quote: | Originally posted by InterMilan31
ummm isnt this good news ea owns espn football now they litterally do. |
It's bad news, EA is trying to eliminate the competition, Cause of that, Gamers can only purchase madden if they want to play an NFL game, Thats just so wrong, The NFK2k games are far superior from it, Better graphics, Gameplay, And the players look better, In the Madden games, The graphics look the same every year. |
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| TeKnoHe@d2025 |
I fear the future for EA, they've got lawsuits all over the place and I just hope they can stay afloat. I don't say that because I feel for EA, I just like alot of the companies that they're purchasing. They've been looking at Ubi Soft next (Prince of Persia, and Splinter Cell series to name a couple). The only reason why they haven't gone through with the deal yet is because of Ubi's financial problems.
If EA goes down then a large portion of the gaming industry will take a hit now. Does anyone else see EA trying to make their own console next?
As for EA and ESPN teaming up, word has it that EA may drop the Madden name which is getting more expensive to keep each year and develop football games under another title. |
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| TheDemon |
Hmmmm...first Ubisoft, now WSPN.
EA bought a certain ammount of stock from ubisoft and they were not happy. lets see how this goes. |
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| InterMilan31 |
| quote: | Originally posted by TigerClaw
It's bad news, EA is trying to eliminate the competition, Cause of that, Gamers can only purchase madden if they want to play an NFL game, Thats just so wrong, The NFK2k games are far superior from it, Better graphics, Gameplay, And the players look better, In the Madden games, The graphics look the same every year. |
I would say that Madden game sare better than the ESPN series. Although the ESPN Hockey & Basketball teaming up with the EA line will be really good. |
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| TigerClaw |
| quote: | Originally posted by InterMilan31
I would say that Madden game sare better than the ESPN series. Although the ESPN Hockey & Basketball teaming up with the EA line will be really good. |
I seriously doubt that, I played the madden and ESPN games and noticed a huge difference, The ESPN games are far superior in terms of the controls, Gameplay and graphics. |
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