With each new generation of consoles, the football games typically "start over" with the new hardware. There is no mistaking the impact that the Madden/ESPN war has had these past couple of years with innovation and furthering the football genre. I fear that with the new consoles being released within the next year or two, and Madden being the only game in town, there will not be much incentive to innovate as much as there has been.
Not to turn this into a Madden/ESPN war, but Madden also had "real" improvements, it's just that every single ESPN fanboy refused to admit/see that. Remember, Sega dropped the price to $20 because they couldn't compete at the same price point. Doesn't that tell you something?
?? The NCAA has nothing to do this this deal between EA and the NFL. The NCAA is a entire different entity upon itself, and it enforces it's only licensing rights. It's highly doubtful that the NCAA would ever turn to an exclusive licensing agreement. So yes, Sega can turn to collegiate football, but will they?
Who said the NFL deal had anythign to do with the NCAA. I was simply stating that Sega could make a college football game IF the NCAA sold them the rights to it. If it's so doubtful that the NCAA would ever have an exclusive deal, then why has there always only been one college football game?
I misunderstood what you were trying to say. Sega currently can get the rights to do a NCAA football game, it's just that they had to concentrate on their NFL product since it was getting beat so badly at retail. Their college game was doing worse than their NFL game......... They quit with the college games a couple of years ago to put all their focus on the NFL. Now that that's out of the question, maybe they can put all their focus on a college game.
