NCAA Football 09 Video w/ Dave Ross: GameSpot

[Pared]

The masses still haven't adopted the "next-gen" systems yet. Not when HDTV's still aren't all over the place...

Just wait until 2009.

[FlyingFinn]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

PS2/Xbox sales were down... not "next-gen." That's a skewed perception.

But next gen did not jump in sales like EA had hoped. Either way around 13% less people bought the game then the year before.

Lets just say that number was 5 million copies sold a year ago: 650K less copies sold * $40 equals around $26 million less in revenue which is nothing to sneeze at, even to EA. If it were to be down another 13% this year, some people may be looking for work.

[Pared]

Next gen won't jump in sales... we're comparing what... 120 million PS2's out there... compared to 19 million and 13 million 360 and PS3 owners...?

The dropoff in PS2/Xbox sales might be alarming... but it's not something that wasn't expected. It will probably be less this year.

[FlyingFinn]

Bottom line is PS2 players are no longer buying NCAA and EA is giving them no reason to make the jump to "next-gen" with their current offerings. Most likely the reason Peter Moore was brought on board with his whole "capture the casual" crusade because the % of sports game nuts on "next-gen" is small compared to last gen so they have to try to do something to keep sales from dropping again.

[Pared]

PS2 game sales are down all around.

One can also say that NEXT GEN GAMING has given them no reason to make the jump with its current offerings. In no way should this be directly proportionate with EA, IMO.

People are reading into it the way they want to, if you ask me.

[ifiok25]

And another thing: The play clock in college football is now 40 seconds not 25. Read the rulebook EA.

[Methlab]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

The masses still haven't adopted the "next-gen" systems yet. Not when HDTV's still aren't all over the place... Just wait until 2009.

The next gen games have to get better. There are few too many great games being made right now.

The rest is just excuses for a ton of average games being released.

[Sportsforever]

If that developer told me one more time that the three things they worked on where 1) Collegiate atmosphere, 2) Wide open gameplay, and 3) Online dynasty, I was going to "supersim" right to the end of that video. So far it looks nicer than last year, but they just really haven't captured that "collegiate" atmosphere like '04 had. This is a wait and see for me...