EA CEO Speaks of an Innovative and New Take on Madden?

[Hova57]

i like kool aid especially if its cherry. Made the ghetto way too man you can't get better than that. lol

anywho i don't think inovation can be bad maybe a realtime ticker at the bottom of the screen while your playing your franchise. or to see realtime stats while your playing play now games. that would be innovative. they came along way last year they wouldn't mess that up in one year would they

[marktwain77]

not 3d dammit!

I just bought a 1080p HDTV a year ago....

I don't want to have to discard all my stuff and start over already!

and I'm not wearing glasses to watch TV

[dfos81]

Quote: Originally Posted by Hova57

i like kool aid especially if its cherry. Made the ghetto way too man you can't get better than that. lol anywho i don't think inovation can be bad maybe a realtime ticker at the bottom of the screen while your playing your franchise. or to see realtime stats while your playing play now games. that would be innovative. they came along way last year they wouldn't mess that up in one year would they

Real-time ticker would be nice. I was also thinking about having spectate mode(broadcast cam) for online games. I would love to see my buddies playing and getting a leg up on them at the same time. I perfer grape kool-aid lol.

[Hova57]

hey does anyone know if VC had a patent on their program where the cpu uses your tendancies against you. wouldn't that be cool if you played your buddy , then played against his tendancies in a cpu game to scout his game.

[SA1NT401]

Quote: Originally Posted by splff3000

lol Ok, first of all, I'm not jumping off of a bridge over Madden lol. Since we don't get the little updates and what not on Madden anymore, any news is gonna be BIG news IMO. That's why this thread will get a lot of views before it's all said and done. Now back to the topic: Let's start adding things up shall we? They hired a new creative director, a creative director that has worked on nothing but arcade sport games. I may be wrong though because I didn't read his whole portfolio of games that he has worked on, but from what I've seen, it's all arcade sports games. That's the first piece. You don't hire someone with a portfolio full of arcade sports games unless you plan on making an arcade sports game. In fact, that's probably the last person you'd hire if you were trying to make a sim sports game. Next you have the CEO saying that Madden is going to have an "innovative and new take" on Madden this year. Ok, let's think about this. We already know that Ian's take on Madden was everything you see on Sunday you see it on the game. He said that plenty of times last year. Well, now that's the old take. Seeing that Madden is getting a "new take" because of a lack of sales, what do you think that new take will be? I can almost guarantee it will be something that will appeal to a broader audience. You know, just like I know, that appealing to a broader audience is the opposite of what a sim gamer wants. Anyway, this is all just my take. I don't know any more than you lol. In fact, you may know more than me lol. I've just seen these types of quotes many many many times in the past from EA and they very rarely turn out good for the OS crowd lol. Don't blast me. It's just my opinion lol.

THEORY #1 We ALL know EA cares about $$$ more than anything else, let alone its customers. Low sales for Madden 10?

EA: "Lets just appeal to a bigger more casual audience. We will lose some loyal customers, but we will double our profits by attractive a wider audience overall. Where else can they go?"

Not ready to flip out YET...But all signs point toward them making madden pretty much STR8 up ARACADE.

If this does happen, Video Game football will be officially DEAD!

THEORY #2 EA has purchased natual Motions Tech thus cancelling backbreaker (which was never gonna come out anyway) and are implementing it in Madden 11. They will offer 2 completely unique modes of play to make EVERYONE happy and a custom online feature which will let you playby your own house rules.

Its either #1 or #2 (minus the BB tech of course. But i can dream)

[mm boost]

Money says the innovation will be a new physics engine. Madden has been using pretty much the same engine through out it's cycle, so innovation could mean changing the core gameplay/physics engine.

Arcade game isn't going to happen. That is why NFL Madden Arcade was just released. They would lose so much money turning the only NFL sim football game into an arcade game, they are already catching hell for a decline in profits. It's probably going to be something groundbreaking that will change the game and offer a new take on it. Just like when 2k first came out on dreamcast, that was a completely different take on football compared to what we was used to at that time. It shaped football games and set a standard. I am willing to bet money Madden is aiming for something along these lines. Maybe a new camera system or audio system or physics or something.

[mm boost]

Matter of fact, in terms of football, the only thing madden has not accomplished is a realistic physics engine and a complete broadcast presentation. my money is on a full fledge presentation broadcast like they are doing with the college basketball and such. Its one or the other? Cause quite frankly, what else can they come out with that we have not seen? Realistic physics and a presentation engine that blows you away.

[polamalu82]

Quote: Originally Posted by SA1NT401

THEORY #1 We ALL know EA cares about $$$ more than anything else, let alone its customers. Low sales for Madden 10? EA: "Lets just appeal to a bigger more casual audience. We will lose some loyal customers, but we will double our profits by attractive a wider audience overall. Where else can they go?" Not ready to flip out YET...But all signs point toward them making madden pretty much STR8 up ARACADE. If this does happen, Video Game football will be officially DEAD! THEORY #2 EA has purchased natual Motions Tech thus cancelling backbreaker (which was never gonna come out anyway) and are implementing it in Madden 11. They will offer 2 completely unique modes of play to make EVERYONE happy and a custom online feature which will let you playby your own house rules. Its either #1 or #2 (minus the BB tech of course. But i can dream)

Not to turn this into a BB debate, but where have you been? BB has named their publisher(505 games) and have a spring 2010 release date. Check the BB section right here on OS.