John Riccitiello, CEO of EA, spoke very directly about how EA feels of Take-Two trying to take on Madden with their own football title, All-Pro Football 2K8. EA considers to be a Take-Two a competitor, and takes it pretty seriously that Madden is being challenged by All-Pro Football 2K8.
“When you’ve got a competitor like Take-Two on the sports side, and they launch a football title using some of the industry legends, you want to make sure that ends up being a blip and is not repeatable, because we like to defend our franchises aggressively.”
Riccitiello was pretty to the point concerning Take-Two, but declined to explain what EA planned on doing to defend Madden’s position as the top football franchise. It will be interesting to see whether if EA simply means that they will advertise aggressively, or if Madden ‘08 itself has been improved in order to be a more appealing game for consumers.
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6 Responses
The Wicker Man
July 27th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
1Im afraid though. I mean, Ea always rocked when there’s another football game to compete with. Then EA gets very cocky, they knew we were tired of their shit. When they kill off 2k9(hopefully not) they ll go back sucking again. Let’s hope 08 has figured out how to use the multicore cessors! If they do good this series, and then suck on the others yet 2 years going.
I see EA sports ruined. people will remember like me, I’ll give them 1 more chance. Im buying both, what pisses me off about 2k8 is that is supposely a remake of 05 with better graphics.
The Wicker Man
July 28th, 2007 at 8:04 am
2I think it should be illegal for another company to buy out rights of a genre or sport. Then they can do whatever they want and not have a monkey on theirs back competing with someone else to make a better product.
Maybe? with the new graphics,core cpu and new gpu it was to much for them to learn on 06. But, no create a player? that should take u like 2-3 days max, not even to program. Ea, did 2 shit versions on purpose guys. They did it so u go ” ohhh man, im gonna get the old version now”
Then they claim we didnt have enough time, then it’s we dont understand the triple cpu processors. They better have fixed this problem. If they don’t, ill boycott EA for good. Im tired of companie’s(EA) releasing products not complete. If its not completed then dont release it!
The Wicker Man
July 28th, 2007 at 8:10 am
3Now, I did buy nfl2k(didnt really buy 00 madden),then nfl2k1(samething, again didnt really care for 01 madden). I didnt get 2k2, I rented it on ps2. It was ugly and played wierd. I bought 2002 madden it was freaking awesome. I did get nfl 2k3, great gameplay but… madden 03 did better. I heard 2k4 wasnt as good and bought 04(great game.) Finally, the year when both games rocked.. 2k5 vs 05. Madden just had a better franchise mode though.
It was so fun to go in do it.Having a maganzine of u/newspaper and a radio show. It was cooler to track ur stats of ur team and player stats. NFL 2k5 had better gameplay, though but wasnt fun for a franchise. But, then again nfl2k5 had an awesome ass half time and post game show.
Madden did shit after, they come out with 06 and forced everyone to use the passing vision. Im bout options people, then they come out with 07 where the camera was right on ur back… u couldnt see anything it was horrible.
Now, with 08.. it seems better. the camera angles are better so u can actually see ur qb or wr. The gameplay will be 60fps instead of 30.. dude, the menu even lagged. I feel bad for the ps3 people, the game will only run 30 frames on ur machine.
simon
July 29th, 2007 at 8:41 am
4hello and i realy want to play the game and it looks fun so lets play
Ocho Cinco 85
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
5Hey great post man! I found this facebook application for all you madden fans i hop you guys will like it. Ive been using it for about 3 days now and its cool but it needs more fans. Anyone here have Xbox live? Im looking for some more people to demolish. Here is the link Madden 08 Fan Club
Jim
January 11th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
6It’s safe to say that Madden ‘08 was advertised aggressively only, because the game absolutely blows. All Pro is not a great game either, but Madden ‘08 is a glitchy, unplayable joke with graphics that are NOT next gen! EA can kiss my ass. I will not be buying ‘09.
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