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all of EA's ***le are crap at the moment on Next Gen Except Tiger Woods 2007...with FNR3 next
Madden is good gameplay but nothing longevity - no owner mode - supastar become stale after a month
NBAlive 07 = balls
NHL = crap
FIFA07 = ok, but not great
once again 2K sports own another year in respect for their local USA sports.
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For EA its not about producing good games, its games that sell and ill bet that EA made more money from those supposedly crap games than 2k made from their equivalents
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i completely agree....but
dont forget that the 2k sports equivelents are a good $20.00 per item cheaper, than EA's ***les.
I believe 2k ship more volume, the 2k series, especially in NBA its lightyears ahead of NBALive2007
Obviously its all about business and money making machines!!!
But i think i'd rather ship more ***les in total volume, than have a larger profit margin..profit margins are depicted by the gap in costs and total revenue
With Gears of War shipping 3 million recently, EPIC would be getting plenty of praise for this accolade....not many will be wanting to know what the profits involved are.
I am starting to see a large trend in game companies listed on stock exchanges like EA.
They are controlled by shareholders to some extent - they only care about $$, they would rather see a dividend in the mail than see a game selling 3 million in 3 months and no dividend in mail.
IMO the bigger the company the less quality we get...its like the Ford assembly line........quantity over quality
for the X360 this year........Oblivion and Gears rocked the boat....the developers of these games are independent i believe........they put more effort into a ***le, as its their soul puppy.
Its like do you want the custom made Aston Martin, or the Mass Produced BMWM3
Do you want custom made golf clubs or the mass produced Wilsons from your local department store.
The games industry is gorwing rapidly, and everyyear that goes by, EA, UBI, Activison are always ACQUIRING new local development studios to expand there reign in the market...once they ACQUIRE these new studios, they implement a new costing poilicy imposed on the studio to maximise profits....cut costs more or less....this impacts the overall quality of a ***le that would have once maybe been a great ***le, but since they "NEWLY ACQUIRED" this mob, and imposed a new costing policy the development of the ***le was re-done, and overall joe public lose quality - we all buy coz there is nothing else, they keep going with sequels, we keep biting the bait.
