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Madden NFL 17 Releases on August 23, Cover Athlete & Gameplay Trailer on May 12

  01:23 PM - May 9, 2016 by jpdavis82

Madden NFL 17 is scheduled to release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on August 23. EA Sports and ESPN will announce the cover athlete on May 12 at 6:00 PM ET on SportsCenter (no cover vote this year). Along with the cover athlete announcement, they also plan to show off the first gameplay trailer from the game.

Read the full press release below.

EA SPORTS Football Franchise Warms up for Its Return to the Gridiron

Today Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) announced that the Madden NFL 17 cover athlete will be revealed Thurs, May 12 live during the 6pm ET/3pm PT edition of ESPN SportsCenter. Fans can tune-in to check out which NFL phenom has earned cover honors this year, and also get their first look at an all-new gameplay trailer.

EA Access* members can try Madden NFL 17 before it’s released for a limited time as part of a Play First Trial, only on Xbox One.

Madden NFL 17 is developed in Orlando, Florida by EA Tiburon and will be available for Xbox One, Xbox 360®, PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®3 on August 23. To learn more about Madden NFL 17, visit http://www.easports.com/madden-nfl.

All player participation has been facilitated by NFL Players Inc., the licensing and marketing subsidiary of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA).

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Member Comments
# 181 SolidSquid @ 05/11/16 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by brandon27
Reading some comments in here and reading between the lines on some of the stuff on twitter, I wonder if the cover is going to be a coach, or a hall of fame coach or GM/team builder and if CFM is really a huge focus this year. It might make sense to do that type of cover if that was the case. Didn't the last Head Coach game have Dungy on the cover or something?


That takes me to... if they could ever just implement the whole idea behind Head Coach, into CFM... we'd be rockin.
That was originally the plan but it failed. I wouldn't be opposed to having a coach/GM on the cover but does that then mean they didn't add anything to actual gameplay this year?
 
# 182 jmurphy31 @ 05/11/16 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Dwaresacksqb
Maybe the real reason there's no cover vote is because EA does want Cam on the cover. With so many people who don't like him for said reasons, including myself, they didn't want to leave it in the hands of the people.

If he ends up on the cover, theory confirmed!
That's if you believe the vote was legit. I think the 1st year they had both finalists happened to be the 2 people who announced the bracket on ESPN.
 
# 183 jpdavis82 @ 05/11/16 06:08 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by brandon27
Reading some comments in here and reading between the lines on some of the stuff on twitter, I wonder if the cover is going to be a coach, or a hall of fame coach or GM/team builder and if CFM is really a huge focus this year. It might make sense to do that type of cover if that was the case. Didn't the last Head Coach game have Dungy on the cover or something?


That takes me to... if they could ever just implement the whole idea behind Head Coach, into CFM... we'd be rockin.
Speaking of which I found this interesting
 
# 184 jpdavis82 @ 05/11/16 06:19 PM
I think I was right about my cover prediction now.

http://youtu.be/_EMAqlSDRMo?a
 
# 185 Armor and Sword @ 05/11/16 06:30 PM
John Madden.

Going back to the roots.
 
# 186 87Birdman @ 05/11/16 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by jpdavis82
Speaking of which I found this interesting
Clearly it is going to be a kicker representing a new and retooled kicking game <_<

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# 187 Dwaresacksqb @ 05/11/16 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by jpdavis82
I think I was right about my cover prediction now.

http://youtu.be/_EMAqlSDRMo?a
So it's going to be Antonio Brown and Von Miller dancing with eachother on the cover?
 
# 188 jpdavis82 @ 05/11/16 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Armor and Sword
John Madden.

Going back to the roots.
It's Miller or Brown, maybe both, check out the link I posted.
 
# 189 Dwaresacksqb @ 05/11/16 06:40 PM
I think it's possible they still end up putting Madden on the cover. Antonio Brown and Von Miller could've been there to be shot for the opening video/menus. Just like OBJ was.
 
# 190 jpdavis82 @ 05/11/16 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Dwaresacksqb
I think it's possible they still end up putting Madden on the cover. Antonio Brown and Von Miller could've been there to be shot for the opening video/menus. Just like OBJ was.
It would be perfect to have Madden on the cover again.
 
# 191 Dwaresacksqb @ 05/11/16 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by jpdavis82
It would be perfect to have Madden on the cover again.
Yeah I agree 100% and I think most everyone else here does as well. I just didn't want to see the door shut completely because of the video you linked, which was great, thank you.

If Madden was on the cover, I'm sure they would still want to bring in some players to shoot some cinematics for the games intro at least. It's probably a reach, but still leaves the door open somewhat after watching that video.
 
# 192 Del Val Events @ 05/11/16 07:06 PM
Football is the greatest sport. Madden has been the greatest...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLWWYb6V97M
Madden should be the greatest.

Here is why you're getting all this hate. We want the tools to do things. We don't want the CPU to do things for us.

Madden 16 gives greatness to you. You don't have to do anything for it. You just get it. Here it is...

The real NFL has nothing automatic about it. The real NFL players and coaches utilize their tools to achieve.

That's what we want.
 
# 193 StormsWarning @ 05/11/16 07:16 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Val Events
Football is the greatest sport. Madden has been the greatest...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLWWYb6V97M
Madden should be the greatest.

Here is why you're getting all this hate. We want the tools to do things. We don't want the CPU to do things for us.

Madden 16 gives greatness to you. You don't have to do anything for it. You just get it. Here it is...

The real NFL has nothing automatic about it. The real NFL players and coaches utilize their tools to achieve.

That's what we want.
This Video Got My Blood Going To The Fullest!!! and its 5 of them!!! There's going to be some BOOM & WAP!
 
# 194 jmurphy31 @ 05/11/16 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Dwaresacksqb
I think it's possible they still end up putting Madden on the cover. Antonio Brown and Von Miller could've been there to be shot for the opening video/menus. Just like OBJ was.
Or be the voices in in the load screen, like big ben and ab was last year. I don't think they would let the gcers reveal the actual player in a youtube video.
 
# 195 jpdavis82 @ 05/11/16 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by jmurphy31
Or be the voices in in the load screen, like big ben and ab was last year. I don't think they would let the gcers reveal the actual player in a youtube video.


They were shooting poses though not recording, obviously they could have after the shoot but that video just showed them doing poses, last year they had the 4 contestants in a similar shoot.
 
# 196 Armor and Sword @ 05/11/16 09:03 PM
Like I had mentioned before Antonio Brown would be a great choice!
 
# 197 jpdavis82 @ 05/11/16 10:27 PM
Very interesting quote from Andrew Wilson in a recent article

Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, said in his prepared comments for the quarterly report that EA Sports titles for this year — Madden NFL 17, NHL 17 and FIFA 17 — will arrive in the second quarter of the year, and that "each is taking a major leap forward in personalization, immersion and competition. "We are also working on a new and engaging way to bring players into our NBA Live franchise on consoles."


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# 198 Gossennator @ 05/11/16 10:42 PM
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Originally Posted by jpdavis82
Very interesting quote from Andrew Wilson in a recent article

Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, said in his prepared comments for the quarterly report that EA Sports titles for this year — Madden NFL 17, NHL 17 and FIFA 17 — will arrive in the second quarter of the year, and that "each is taking a major leap forward in personalization, immersion and competition. "We are also working on a new and engaging way to bring players into our NBA Live franchise on consoles."


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Nice find.. This seems like it has Team Play all over it. It's a great idea but it would be really hard to make it work for a football game.
 
# 199 RyanLaFalce @ 05/11/16 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by jpdavis82
Very interesting quote from Andrew Wilson in a recent article

Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, said in his prepared comments for the quarterly report that EA Sports titles for this year — Madden NFL 17, NHL 17 and FIFA 17 — will arrive in the second quarter of the year, and that "each is taking a major leap forward in personalization, immersion and competition. "We are also working on a new and engaging way to bring players into our NBA Live franchise on consoles."


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Hopefully for Madden's sake it means much more realism including full body scans.
 
# 200 4thQtrStre5S @ 05/11/16 11:43 PM
I would like to see another 2 player cover - thus both Brown and Miller - which I would hope to suggest a balance of resources and improvements on both sides of the ball...

I would also like to see another zone area that would sit just under where the Yellow zones sit, thus allowing better coverage of the drag and shallow crossing routes, but at the same time sacrificing some depth that you get with the yellow zones.

Also, more stock plays with the purple zones would be nice.

and again, gap control/assignments.
 


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