Gee, imagine that. When someone makes the effort to make something that isn’t a mere update, it sells! When your sports development teams only spend two and a half months out of the year working on a game and spend the other nine and one half months just sitting around, wow!
That being said, if PlayStation’s own IP developed in-house and on their time can be dictated by the MLB and Phil Spencers sniveling crybaby demands to competing platforms, EA must surely fall subject to the same deal by demand that Visual Concepts be permitted to resume 2K Sports franchises again. I went and played the demo for NHL 2K7 before the Xbox 360 store shutdown and wouldn’t ya know it, it’s better all around than EAs franchise but, I guess when you know you can’t cut it and you’ll never be as good as the other guy, you do what EA did and forever doom sports fans to lackluster games with as minimal effort as possible.
Finally, I think of all the genres of games, it’s sports games that should be the Live Service or Games as a Service type games. You get minimal additions and roster corrections every year and that’s about it, that nowhere near warrants a full-game price tag so they might as well make a single sports game for that sport and then do Season Pass for them since that’s all they’re doing and that would bring the overall cost of sports games from $59.99 and then having to pay again $69.99 for current Gen consoles down to $15- $19 a year. Seems fair right? That’s about all it’s worth, it’s a software update every year, that’s about it, but that’s just me
