Tiger driven to Tiburon

By Tim Surette, GameSpotPosted Apr 11, 2007 11:28 am PT

EA confirms long-running golf franchise will now be handled by Florida studio responsible for Madden, NCAA Football series.

Golfers love the sunny climes of Florida, and apparently golf game developers do as well. An Electronic Arts representative has confirmed reports in the Orlando Sentinel stating that EA's Tiburon studio in Orlando, Florida, is the new home for development on the Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchise.

Argh! Is Tomorrowland out of bounds?

EA Tiburon is best known for developing EA's top-selling Madden NFL series along with another annual off-season juggernaut, the NCAA Football games. The Tiger Woods titles were previously developed out of EA's headquarters in Redwood City, California.

An EA rep told GameSpot that the move was made to "further establish Tiburon as an EA Sports hub" and centralize the company's sports games. With EA Canada serving as the home of the NBA Live, MVP Baseball, and NHL games, just about every game made under the EA Sports brand is now developed in just two of the publishing giant's studios.

The next edition of Tiger Woods PGA Tour has not yet been formally announced. Stay tuned to GameSpot for more news on the annual golf game.

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SPARTAN013
Posted Apr 17, 2007 8:56 pm PT

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theKSMM
Posted Apr 12, 2007 5:11 am PT

Where was the old development home of Tiger Woods PGA Tour? And what happened to those developers?
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cj_133
Posted Apr 12, 2007 2:00 am PT

I love tiger woods golf. They better not screw it up.
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CyphenX
Posted Apr 11, 2007 10:49 pm PT

no
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jbwise01
Posted Apr 11, 2007 10:11 pm PT

I remember when...you all are holdin on to the past TOO hard...i remember when microsoft didn't have a console...so does that mean anything now...um no...remember this...its my personal qoute a fav too...
"inspire innovation instead of proclaiming failure! "

oh yea and to those who say collaboration slows the ability innovate..take a look at apple...great ideas come first...it takes an army of great minds to make dreams reality...in EA's pusuit of uniforimty in sports gaming they are not only becoming larger, they are allowing the consumer to easily transition for genre to genre...lower the learning curve while making games increasingly more complex and responsive. before long the EA ginat will be releasing sports packages...
for instance...imganine if you will the fall sports series...TIGER 08, FIFA 08, NBA LIVE 08 bundled togther one blueray disc, with a common UI to all three games allowing the user to choose which game to play from the start menu? Hope ur listening EA, b/c a 120 fall sports pachage would be awesome. i am an 360 owner, but this kind of innovation is why sony demanded blueray in gaming...50 gigs...multiple game son one disc.
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zsc4
Posted Apr 11, 2007 9:12 pm PT

I'll pass on this...never been a fan.
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fuman3
Posted Apr 11, 2007 8:49 pm PT

I guess Tiger will suck now. Tiburon is horrible. I remember when they made NHL 97 for the PS1. It was god awefull!!
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JessieLC
Posted Apr 11, 2007 8:01 pm PT

For those who don't know.........Microsoft ditched the Greatest Golf Series the LINKS Series back in @2000........they Did take it to the Consoles but let it die! IT was so much better then Tiger Woods and other Series of the today!
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abw1977
Posted Apr 11, 2007 6:09 pm PT

Wow so many games at so few studios... No wonder why nothing really innovative makes it into those games anymore.
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GanadoKiller
Posted Apr 11, 2007 5:38 pm PT

Which means Tiger Woods 2007 will be that LAST Tiger game from EA that had ANY fresh ideas, even though there werent that many. Thanks EA for putting my game on the same level as that garbage football game you keep putting out every year called Madden NFL. ---This just in... In Tiger Woods 2008, players will be able to control the trees branches with the left analog stick while holding down the L1 and R2 and clicking the R3 button. This will bring an unprecidented level of realism to the Tiger Woods universe that has never been fully utilized in a game before--- I should be paid for that!!!
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quilpie
Posted Apr 11, 2007 4:48 pm PT

we need microsoft to bring its golf games to consoles. they have always been great golf games with good graphics and great gameplay. tiger woods needs to be shaken up a bit by haveing other golf games out on the market. that might wake them up , you think ea with rights to such a great name. would not stuff it up but year after year they get worse
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BOSSMAN_2004
Posted Apr 11, 2007 4:19 pm PT

This news sucks. Now Tiger Woods 08 is going to be horrible.
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Jubei_Hikari
Posted Apr 11, 2007 4:16 pm PT

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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DeeCrutch
Posted Apr 11, 2007 2:59 pm PT

I don't give a **** about golf. What I want is for EA to move Live from Canada back to the US, because if 07 is any indication, EA Canada has no ****ing clue as to what the hell they're doing. Live has been dying a slow, painful death since its last good version, back in 2004. It is time for a change, EA. Hell, if all else fails, get the team that did NBA Street to do Live. As smooth as the motion was in Homecourt, there's no way in hell that Live has any business whatsoever being as choppy as it was. Something has got to be done. If not, EA may as well let 2K have exclusivity with the NBA's license, because it will amount to the same thing...one side will have a decent hoops game (2K), and the other side will have Live 07 all over again.

/end rant
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Zigmond1
Posted Apr 11, 2007 2:53 pm PT

2005 was fun
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comthitnuong
Posted Apr 11, 2007 2:51 pm PT

Hope it comes out well.
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mr_ackman
Posted Apr 11, 2007 2:45 pm PT

hmmmmm
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Fire_of_Contee
Posted Apr 11, 2007 2:43 pm PT

I hope the new tiger games are as good as the old ones......
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airbo0309
Posted Apr 11, 2007 1:55 pm PT

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BWRoss79
Posted Apr 11, 2007 1:53 pm PT

2k sports forever!!!!
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