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http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/27/tecmo-bowl-wii-on-indefinite-hold-franchise-coming-to-xbla-in/

Tecmo Bowl Wii on indefinite hold, franchise coming to XBLA in 'early 2010'

Tecmo has confirmed that Tecmo Bowl for Wii was put on hold and converted into Family Fun Football. A Tecmo rep informed G4 that "given the recent trend on the Wii and its target audience," Tecmo made a "business decision" to switch the Tecmo Bowl project into a "family oriented football game." For now, Tecmo Bowl for Wii is "indefinitely on hold."

However, there is good news for Xbox 360 owners, as a Tecmo Bowl for Xbox Live Arcade is in the works for early 2010. There are currently no details on the game, but there may be some information next week at E3. Wii owners who were looking forward to Tecmo Bowl for the console may want to pick up its second-cousin thrice removed: Family Fun Football.

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I did not discover this until I saw Family Fun Football being displayed as a coming title at Gamestop.

It makes you wonder if (a) the company is looking at what people did on the Wii last year rather than what they should do this year; (b) if that had anything to do with the poor reception of Tecmo Bowl DS, and why there is no mention of the VC release of the Arcade Tecmo Bowl.

 

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Why would Wii owners care about Tecmo Bowl when they can get Family Fun Football? Woo hoo.



I just checked out the video of Family Fun Football. It looks like a bad version of NFL Blitz.



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lol bad version of nfl blitz...i don't even care abt this game..



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Eh... interesting.

Will either FFF or Tecmo Bowl 360 be the fun sidescrolling game of yesteryear or will they be mediocre 3D games like Madden and the rest.

That is the real question.



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Kasz216 said:

Eh... interesting.

Will either FFF or Tecmo Bowl 360 be the fun sidescrolling game of yesteryear or will they be mediocre 3D games like Madden and the rest.

That is the real question.

I don't know about Tecmo Bowl 360, but as I said FFF looks like a bad NFL Blitz (3D, behind the ball carrier view in case you don't know).



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