Peter Moore, the man with a plan at EA Sports, spoke to ESPN recently. Anyone who's a big fan of the Street series of games, or the millions of gamers that loved the SSX titles, should look away now. Back? Right, gotcha - we're still going to make you read this.
"We'll still do traditional sports, but we're going to do them a different way," Moore said. "Street is a good example. We built a new TheSixthAxis write: 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."
And SSX? "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." Doesn't sound good, but it gets worse: "If Wii Sports has taught us anything, it's that people will sit there and play big head tennis all day long."
People will, yeah, but not us, Peter, we want SSX. "We need to have something for that sports fan who might not necessarily be a sports gamer," he concludes, "but who wants that 15-minute experience without having to struggle on how to use the controller." Oh for fuck's sake.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
LucasArts gave Jango Fett his own game in 2002, and it pulled Star Wars into a much dirtier, rougher, and more interesting corner of the galaxy.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Shame, i enjoyed SSX. Vey fun game.
EA droping the SSX IP has made baby Jesus cry.
Dropping the Street series has made baby Jesus happy.
I loved SSX! Those comments made me worried for the hardcore sports gamer.
Not interested in a brandid snowboarding game like Shaun White.
Looks like the 360 exclusive "Stoked" is the boarding game I'm picking up this year.
By far the best sport series on the PS2 generation. Simply amazing and far ahead of its time, Shaun White's snowboarding dosn't look like it can match up to my SSX level expectations.
Its Tricky Tricky Tricky!
Played and beat the game with every player... TWICE!
Its unfortunate that the just had blur recently...
SSX rules! One of my favorite games ever!
Better than any Tony Hawk game i have everr played. Hell ever downhill domination is better than tony hawk.
Anyways, this is very unfortunate! I well done SSX game would be very welcomed, instead of some of the new crap EA dishes out. SSX at least has a following.