These five-year agreements -- which EA negotiated separately -- give EA the exclusive rights to the NFL teams, stadiums and players for use in its football videogames. Both agreements also include exclusive rights for console online features. Financial terms of the agreements were not disclosed.
For the first time, all aspects of the interactive experience -- including console-based fantasy football features and handheld game devices -- will be fully integrated with one EA game. This also provides the opportunity for new games and for EA to access both NFL Films and the NFL Network for use in the games.
Well, this sucks for anyone who was a fan of NFL2K5 (myself included).
On a side note, did you hear that they're making a new Red Alert game?
Anyways, EA makes good stuff but FUCK THEM for not letting consumers choose. How much do you want to bet that the football games start sucking 5 years from now?
