EA craps on Sega once again.
Posted by Graham. Filed under G, News. Tagged with Virtua Tennis.
As many of you should be aware EA and Sega have been battling it out against e
ach other since the rise of the Dreamcast. At that time we saw the two companies battling out over their sports franchises, EA saying they would only develop games for the Dreamcast if Sega stopped their (highly successful) Sega Sports range. By now you should all know what happened then….
Well a few years have passed and EA and Sega are battling out again this time over…..err their sports titles….yet again.
It was recently announced that Sega would be releasing the Xbox 360s first native 1080p title in the form of Virtua Tennis 3, which is due out in March. Great news huh? Well not anymore. It seems that Electronic Arts have now revealed that their upcoming basketball game NBA Street Homecourt, due out Feb 20th, will now be the first native 1080p title for the 360.
I don’t think Sega should be too worried though. Sure EA have taken some of their thunder, but knowing EA they will have just taken an old NBA title and done nothing but added some prettier graphics. It’ll be down to the great gameplay and experience, something that EA  haven’t been able to produce in their sports titles for a long time.
[Source: TotalVideoGames]
Comments on this article
There have been 13 responses to this article.
EAs nonsence may be the first 1080p game but it still only runs in 30fps..
Virtua Tennis runs in 1080p and at 60fps.. Sega wins.
Ryan
Posted February 11th, 2007 at 8:33 am.
Who is Herfirstanalsex and what is her number?
Sega always wins.
lutfit
Posted February 11th, 2007 at 8:48 am.
Very likely a bot. =’(
Ryan
Posted February 11th, 2007 at 9:37 am.
Hmmm well I just clicked on her link to find out. Either she’s a porn star with great taste in video games or…..
G
Posted February 11th, 2007 at 9:44 am.
Lol- I actually just clicked on her link again to check something- At the risk of catching a virus or haviong the Feds bust down my door (that’s what I’m willing to risk for this site though ;) )
-The article is actually on her frontpage! You have to scroll down (past the unsightly pictures) and there it is.
I wonder if she is trying to boost the hits by masquerading as a gaming site?
Or maybe she just really likes Seganerds? (that sounds more likely) :)
G
Posted February 11th, 2007 at 9:50 am.
does this mean we might get her number :D
lutfit
Posted February 11th, 2007 at 10:49 am.
If she sends it to us - I’ll make sure to pass it your way lutfit ;)
G
Posted February 11th, 2007 at 11:59 am.
Why do EA hate SEGA so much in the first just because of the sports thing? That’s really stupid if that is…
Evil Sonic
Posted February 13th, 2007 at 1:25 pm.
Yeah it’s quite a petty fued.
They used to be pretty good ‘mates’ back in the Saturn and Megadrive days. I remember EA was one of the few companies that stuck it out with the Saturn throughout its life- realising some pretty fun racing and sports titles….
Still I’m glad that Sega didn’t cave about the sports things- I’d rather still be playing Extreme Sports on the Dreamcast than another Madden title, or playing Virtua Striker 2 over any FIFA game.
G
Posted February 13th, 2007 at 2:02 pm.
Well that’s even debatable. I think it was the fact that they needed eachother in a mutal allance on what the games industry was like at the time,the megadrive era. EA for example were forced by Sega to get a license when EA were actually making illegal games for the system.
But the whole hate thing stems from what happened to the saturn and EA and sega fell out over it. it came to a head during the DC era when EA refused to support it because they said the numbers on DC don’t make sense. When the DC passed the numbers to warrant EA suport they came up with that excuse.
BTW when sega went third party a website(Segaweb i think) asked other developers about what they thought about sega going TP. Capcom said they were sad about the situation because they had a new competitor but wished them luck. EA on the other hand said they were desperate and made fun of them. EA has been asking for a kicking from sega for a while now.But if you allow me to submit an article to this site i’ll go into more detail…
Revenge Of Joe Musashi Part 2
Posted February 13th, 2007 at 5:12 pm.
Submit an article you say?
We could possibly swing to allow that. If you like, PM me in the forums about it. I think it would be good to get some views of our readers out.
-Also I have to ask. What do you mean when you say EA said the ‘numbers on the DC made no sense’. What numbers?
G
Posted February 14th, 2007 at 7:22 am.
EA said intially that the reason why they wouldn’t support DC was that there wasn’t enough of a userbase to warrant them making games for it. ut the DC surpassed ther numbers they hinted at that they would need to start making software for it since the DC had a very large userbase in the States around 2000. hen they just came up with the excuse of Sega Sports 2k series since people were starting to praise that series.
Revenge Of Joe Musashi Part 2
Posted February 14th, 2007 at 10:42 am.
-Well I didn’t know any of that- but it doiesn’t suprise me. But how can EA claim that the DC had no userbase- when they were one of the only developers supporting the GameCube in the last year or two. I love my GameCube, but bugger all games came out for it. EA was the only one intent on giving it the PS2 and Xbox games…problem was most (if not all) were crap.
I think Ubisoft was one of the other few companies, who supported with good games- with SplinterCell and RainbowSix - but always released months after the Xbox and PS2 versions.
I think EA could be one of the worst things to happen to the gaming world- except their PC division. For some reason I think they make some damn good PC titles.
G
Posted February 14th, 2007 at 4:36 pm.