The NFL needs to grant a license to 2kSports and Sony Development Studios

[BigOrangeVol4Life]

Can’t understand why EA Sports has to have an exclusive license. The Madden series has its good points, but there were a lot of things NFL 2k kicked their tails in. I’ve read many times that the last NFL 2k game before the series came to a halt is still better than today’s Madden. I want to see what the developers of MLB The Show are capable of with an NFL game too. Competition makes products better. If you can’t hack it, hire better programmers and designers. The Madden series could certainly be worse, but there are problems they simply cannot get right, and it’s looking like they’ll never fix. If the NFL wants to gain even more popularity with the gaming community, they would be wise to do away with their exclusive license and let SDS and 2k Sports try their hands.

[Kanobi]

Not happening for the foreseeable future. Better off hoping for an XFL partnership with 2k

[daflyboys]

How many threads are we gonna have like this?

[Phil Spiderman]

The nfl can't do that, that's not how any of this works. But why would they even want to? They make a killing off all you idiots who keep buying that crap game from ea every single year. Then after you buy it and realize it's still crap, you keep feeding them $ by playing into their ultimate team con job. So everybody who knows the game sux keeps buying it every year, and then on top of that they reel in a new generation of buyers every year who think the game is great because they've never played anything better from 2 consoles ago. Ea and the nfl are both very happy with things like they are, I bet.

[ElectricAggie]

Quote: Originally Posted by Kanobi

Not happening for the foreseeable future. Better off hoping for an XFL partnership with 2k

Same. With a college mode as an add-on.

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[drae2]

Just do a college game...

[ijumpedthegun]

I'd be interested in someone doing a deep study on the split of revenue when EA and 2k both had a license and adjusting it for things like inflation, microtransactions, increased consumer spending to compare it to what EA makes now.

I'd be willing to bet that the NFL would make more money off of two games than just one, but the only evidence I have is anecdotal. If there were two NFL games and they were both good, I'd buy both of them.

[roadman]

A poster from OS, Dr. Jones, used to work for EA on the Triple Play series.

He mentioned this in a post about a decade ago or so and I took this post from the Madden forum recently:

The NFL, by going exclusive, made more off of one company, EA, than all 4 or 5 companies combined. And by the way, the NFL Players Union also chimed in a few years ago and stated they have a strong relationship with EA. This relationship is now 15 years strong on the business end of things.

So, to keep things simple, let's say all of those companies had a million dollar licensing fee to pay the NFL. The NFL eliminated all of the companies except EA and charged EA 100 million licensing fee. I'm keeping the figures simple to save time.

You would literally need to convince the NFL to change their preferred model for business, and that is exclusivity.

I really don't see that happening, which is why I'm hoping like Kanoboi mentioned above.