• The Gaming Tailgate Podcast Ep. 20 - NCAA Football 13 Demo & E3 2012

    In this edition of The Gaming Tailgate podcast, cdj, gschwendt, and JBHuskers discuss the recently released NCAA Football 13 demo and also recap E3 2012.


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    1. SCClassof93's Avatar
      SCClassof93 -
      Quote Originally Posted by Little Steve View Post
      For some reason im guessing 1 of your 2 "swings" of the ban hammer is goona be on me....
      If I only get 1, nah. 2? You need to worry
    1. JeffHCross's Avatar
      JeffHCross -
      Quote Originally Posted by beartide06 View Post
      Well, do you think that in time the E3 crowd could take over primarily, and make most of the sports games obsolete?
      The E3 crowd is the primary audience in gaming. E3, by and large, is a little on the "hardcore" side rather than the "casual" side, so they're probably not the majority of all gamers. But they are likely to make up for that with buying more titles than the casual majority ever does. So we don't need to be worried about E3's audience becoming the majority -- they already have.

      Sports games don't make a huge splash on the E3 stage because, similar to what others have said, it's very difficult to make a huge splash with an annual title. Real-time physics is a huge difference maker for Madden (or at least has the potential to be), but most of the audience probably doesn't know enough about what Madden looks like now to understand how different that RTP video looked.

      I'd contend that E3 can be viewed much like the Summer Blockbuster schedule. You see a bunch of action movies with a bunch of explosions, to get the attention of the testosterone-fueled audience. You don't see Any Given Sunday or Rudy-like movies in Summer Blockbuster schedule. But NFL ratings on Sundays do just fine
    1. JeffHCross's Avatar
      JeffHCross -
      One more thought, and that is that the timing of E3 screws the sports genre pretty badly. NCAA is really the only game that's pretty close to "final" when E3 hits. Madden is probably at least in Beta by now. Everything else is far enough out that you wouldn't want to show it. These games get pretty ugly early in their development cycle.
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