Last week, I talked about the
decline of the arcade-sports genre, but this week I will be discussing how the genre can rise from the depths.
It was only 10 years and two console cycles ago when Midway's NFL Blitz franchise was so popular that it actually outsold Madden '99 across the N64 and PSone platforms.
We are also only a half-decade and one console cycle removed from a time when EA's Street brand was strong enough to have four games in its portfolio sell over a million copies -- the three NBA games and the first NFL Street
How, then, did things fall apart so rapidly for a genre that, one console cycle ago, seemed to be on the rise?
Read More - Part II: How the Arcade-Sports Genre Can Rise Once More