XanderXT said:
SanAndreasX said:
EA has a long history of pitching bitch-fits. They tried to bully Nintendo back in the 8-bit era and failed miserably. Then they successfully bullied their way onto the Sega Genesis extracting special treatment from Sega. I remember reading about that in Game Informer some time back.
Apparently, Sega had a "kill switch" that, if they'd used it at CES, would have caused EA's unlicensed Genesis games to fail publicly. This was by EA's own admission, not Sega's. It's a pity they caved in to EA and didn't use whatever kill-switch they had. They could have chased EA away for good with that kind of embarrassment. :)
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I really can't understand why EA still has yearly sport releases. They can just
update the roster of teams, right?
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It's a lot easier to squeeze out 60 bucks a head from sports fans (or pretty much any other genre fan) when your incremental update is in a shiny new box with the current season year than it is if your update is just a DLC patch file on an online storefront. That's important because Madden and FIFA exclusivity and the money they bring in are pretty much the only way EA can get away with being as extortionist as they are. If MS or Sony see millions of football fans (either gridiron or association) potentially jumping ship, they'll jump at the crack of EA's whip.
