| RolStoppable said: On topic: As for other sports, American football is a dead end because of EA's lock on the NFL license. Nintendo could bring back their baseball and basketball games, plus consider an NHL game. Other sports aren't popular enough to bother. But even for those I mentioned it's questionable if it's even worth it. |
The NCAA is nearly as big a deal as the NFL, and they're not completely overlapping either, so if the NCAA license is available it might be a viable way to start building a valuable franchise. As for the viability of other major sports, NBA 2K averages about four million annually. Sony's MLB: The Show is a more modest series, with a mere million or so units each year. Golf games and hockey games are about on par. I'm not completely certain it'd be the most efficient use of resources, but I have to imagine that good entries in these genres would attract an appreciably-sized new audience.
