EA Sports Owns NFL Rights
This was shocking -- to say the least.
In an effort to monopolize the football gaming industry, EA Sports purchased exclusive rights to the NFL to continue their Madden series in years to come.
This means -- no more ESPN, no more games from 989, nothing -- at least without the NFL license.
ESPN and 989 can still go out and make football games, just as long as they're not licensed by the NFL. As for the NFLPA, the company which licenses the players themselves, is not known.
As far as the Madden/ESPN war goes -- Madden is on top. That means Mike and the rest of the Madden-bashers will have to resort to buy a copy of Madden 2006 for the next season!
2 Comments:
Personally I'd rather just stick with ESPN NFL 2k5 next season. It will take a couple years for madden to catch up to it anyway.
I'm not at all happy with the whole EA Sports and exclusive rights deal at all. Less competition means less innovation. I'm a big Sega Sports fan since back in the day with Joe Montana Football for the Genesis way up to the NFL2k(ya, dreamcast baby!)/ESPN football days. It always seems like Sega has something here or there that separates it a bit from Madden. I'm not worried though, since the NFLPA doesn't have any exclusive contracts, we might see another release next year from 989 and Sega. Of course nothing beats good ol' Tecmo Bowl and Super Tecmo Bowl on the NES, man I miss those days :). We'll have to set up a tournament some weekend.
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