News Room Contributor Posts: 1264 Joined: 10 Apr 2007 | EA Makes Play for Serious Football Fans in New Madden Title
EA is hoping to extend Madden's reach by introducing fantasy football elements to the game's 2009 iteration.
Madden 2009 will offer some free - and other pay-only - online services on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live designed to appeal to hardcore football fans.
"Exclusive to EA Sports Fantasy Football customers, gamers will have the ability to download the EA Sports Fantasy Football Live Draft Tracker application and experience a fantasy draft that includes all of the fanfare and presentation of an authentic professional football draft on their Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3," EA said.
The company said video clips and expert commentary will be featured, in addition to draft selection and team-tracking applications.
Will spruced-up versions of features already available at established fantasy football websites be enough entice gamers to shell out for the game? We shall see.
EA was recently sued by two U.S. gamers for anticompetitive practices, as it holds exclusive rights to produce games with the NFL license.
Source: ArsTechnica.com
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Copy Clerk Posts: 58 Joined: 12 Jun 2008 | i think EA was looking for the best way to squeeze some money out of a dying game series. Honestly they're coming up with some rather.... new? ideas but i doubt its going to help much. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 4 Joined: 17 Jun 2008 | I think it's interesting they're doing this while being sued by those Californian guys for their NFL exclusivity. |
EA Makes Play for Serious Football Fans in New Madden Title
EA is hoping to extend Madden's reach by introducing fantasy football elements to the game's 2009 iteration.
Madden 2009 will offer some free - and other pay-only - online services on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live designed to appeal to hardcore football fans.
"Exclusive to EA Sports Fantasy Football customers, gamers will have the ability to download the EA Sports Fantasy Football Live Draft Tracker application and experience a fantasy draft that includes all of the fanfare and presentation of an authentic professional football draft on their Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3," EA said.
The company said video clips and expert commentary will be featured, in addition to draft selection and team-tracking applications.
Will spruced-up versions of features already available at established fantasy football websites be enough entice gamers to shell out for the game? We shall see.
EA was recently sued by two U.S. gamers for anticompetitive practices, as it holds exclusive rights to produce games with the NFL license.
Source: ArsTechnica.com
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