It seems that EA and the NCAA football franchise will be parting ways as the NCAA has decided not to renew its contract with EA. The contract ends in the spring of next year. The NCAA stated that it was not in their best interests to continue their license with EA. EA will still continue to make college football games though and claim that this years iteration is a highly polished game.
Hopefully this means that other developers will throw their hats in the ring and try to take a chunk out of the college football video game market. It would be refreshing to have some diversity in the monopolized football video game market. Now we have to cross our fingers and hope like hell that EA and the NFL part ways. The split of the NFL and EA though somewhat doubtful (read my previous article) could very well bring a renaissance to football video gaming. No longer tied to Madden as your life line for NFL gaming, consumer choices could have a drastic effect on the Madden template, which lets face it has gotten kind of stale, and we could see innovations in the genre that just won’t ever happen if EA remains the only developer with the official NFL licensing.
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