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Stop me if this is old, but it appears that two of EA Sports Big's franchises are gone and not coming back any time soon. In a recent interview with Peter Moore, NBA Street was confirmed to be on hiatus, while SSX was seemingly lumped in, too. Believe it or not, the story doesn't come from IGN or Kotaku, but ESPN the Magazine and their gaming writer, former IGN Sports Editor Jon Robinson. Here's what Moore told ESPN: ----------- "We'll still do traditional sports, but we're going to do them a different way," he told me. "Street is a good example. We built a new Freestyle brand to do different things, and we also need to build our own intellectual properties. We rely on other people's IP for everything we do and we need to develop some new things. In the old days we had things like SSX that were our own intellectual property, but since then we've kind of moved away from that. We need a mixture of experiences that are not only for the hardcore, 'it's in the game' crowd. But if Wii Sports has taught us anything, it's that people will sit there and play big head tennis all day long. We need to be able to tap into that audience. We need to have something for that sports fan who might not necessarily be a sports gamer, but who wants that 15-minute experience without having to struggle on how to use the controller." ----------- So, there you have it. Considering that NBA Street had become something of a joke and that SSX was so terribly done on the Wii, I won't miss either. How about you guys and gals?
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No NBA Street saddens me though. Vol. 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, even topping NBA Jam for my arcade bball fix
(( Even though 2k Series is tits. ))
But i won't miss "NFL Tour"... &
I will not purchase "Fifa Street"!
& NHL '09, I hear; pretty much sealed the deal on the "Hitz" label.
I hope they bring some fresh eyes of quality to their new properties.
EA killed the franchise because "fans" complained there wasn't enough realism to make it entertaining.
So here's the hint EA, your recent IP's are doing well because they aren't based in reality. Make more games with impossible scenarios and you will make billions. Add realism and you will ruin every product you own.
DDDDDEAD!
so now instead of actually being different, we're "following the status quo" by trying to copy or outdo the wii in exactly what they do.
I tell ya....EA BIG was what made me believe EA had some good left in them years ago.
Just don't kill SSX.
SSX Blur was a pile of shit. Blur did so many things wrong: Character redesigns, horrible control scheme (Yes half working uber tricks and waggle = fail), reused tracks, and a laggy framerate... The frame rate was unforgiveable since the tracks (Happiness / Snow Jam for example) looked 20x better in SSX 3 which was on a less powerful platform. SSX Blur seemed to have fog / short draw distances everywhere.
I mean anything blur did the previous games did better in every way... Especially considering the tracks in blur were just pulled out of 3 and On Tour and stuffed into blur... When SSX 3 and On Tour were better games.
Which raises the question: Why play Blur at all? No new content combined with worse gameplay. Blur was clearly put together just to make a quick buck and I haven't bought an EA title since. They screwed me out of $60.
The only credit I'll give to blur is that Junkie XL created an awesome sound track. The game itself however is shit and the Montreal studio should be ashamed of themselves for what they did to the Vancouver based IP.
*ahem*............sorry.
Yeah, abandon all hope for that studio.
i'm with Ron on this one. Don't even say stuff about not bringing back SSX and old school NBA Street.