EA Sports has told IncGamers that community reaction to the last FIFA title on the Wii prompted the sequel's "new direction."
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TGC writes: There are those that like to argue whether you are a Fifa gamer or a Pro Evolution Soccer gamer. I’m going to take it one step further and say your either a football gamer or a non football gamer. The fact of the matter is a new game comes out every year with possibly the slightest difference from the previous game and they release it onto the shelves in quantities thinking that they’ve made something new and improved. I really think they should hold a prize for anyone who can spot the difference between FIFA 09 and FIFA10 because I’m really struggling.
I use to buy every sports game I was interested in madden,MLB,nba and wwe along few others and I remember buying playing for few days than thinking why I paid full price for this. Than one year about 4 years ago I said no more and I have never bought another sports game at launch sometimes I do buy me when they $20 on craiglist of sale but that's barely
IMO sports games don't do enough to justify a fully price and that's just my opinion
If 2k can sell nfl 2k5 for $19.99 and make a profit than why are games today with less content are selling for full 60? No wonder why EA ran to nfl and bought the exclusive rights
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Sports games shuld be every 2 years and in between dlc and more updates and stuff like tournaments
If people are willing to buy them then whats the problem? i think its cod or mw123 you should be talking about, the new pes and fifa look good this year.
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Sports games tend to bore me, but I'm very fond of Tony Hawk, Skate, NBA Street V2 and some WWE games (if you count it as sport... sports entertainment... whatever).
How much more can people expect from football games anyway? Just go into a field with your mates and a ball.
All of the FIFA games needed a new direction, really. They stagnated years ago. Now, though, it looks like there's something being done about it.
I'm a huge fan of the fifa series and as long as they dont copy the mechanics of what PES for the Wii does then I'll be happy.
PES is supposed to really take on the FIFA brand now. I've heard PES is going to be huge and take the title back.
I think Fifa in general needs a new direction.
There's no point still putting out new versions every year when the game could be updated via dlc.