There's no ONE future for the gaming industry. Smart companies like EA are diversifying. They're not abandoning traditional games, even as they pursue browser fare like Lords of Ultima. If we were going to lose traditional gaming, we'd have lost it with the success of PopCap or the Wii. Social, microtransaction-based games won't do it, simply because there'll be a few big dogs that dominate the sector in short order.
They both look exactly the same, which speaks as much to the masterful graphics of Mario Sunshine as to the depressing similarity between the Wii and the GameCube.
ZuljinRaynor - Yeah, much tougher than soccer. If David Beckham were so quick to leave a game in the NFL, he'd be cut so fast it's not even funny. American Football players endure injury the likes of which soccer players never could. Now soccer FANS, those mofos are TOUGH.
Why are the anti-Spanish people so upset? It's not like EA's cancelling all English versions of their sports games. They're just dropping some Madden on people who'd rather their entertainment be in Spanish. More money for them, I say.
allmybase - This is actually a large part of why many RPGs just don't see European release. The logistical nightmare involved in releasing a massive game like an RPG in English AND the romance languages makes all but the biggest RPG releases unfeasable. France, Germany and Spain won't buy an English-only game, leaving the UK as the only country where English is the primary language (though smaller countries like the Netherlands will often get the English version as that market is too small or not that kind to dubbing).
minos - I always wondered why the companies including Spanish in their games DON'T publicize it in Spanish TV and mention - in spanish - how you can access that track. You'd think that would help get more sales.
allmybase - That's what I'm thinking. Pressing another disc, making new packaging, and releasing it this long after the English release makes poor sense. And we KNOW they can shove a Spanish track in: I doubt it has as much audio and text as BioShock, which DOES have a Spanish track (which can be accessed by setting your 360 system language to Spanish). There's no reason to waste this much money on separate versions when a couple of short blurbs in either language on the box + a "TAMBIEN EN ESPANOL" bubble next to the cover athlete's helmet will do the same trick.
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