June 4th Madden Gameplay Reveal

[jaymo76]

I've seen some people start to go a little crazy about the demo date. What's the rush? The only reason the NCAA demo date dropped so soon was to block the wrath over the lack of Infinity. Their demo came out too soon imo.

Releasing the demo 2 weeks in advance or even just one week allows people to experience the game, get excited and go out and buy the game. If you have to wait too long you have probably stopped playing. Either way I am fine with later demos because the build is often newer. I get so sick of hearing about how demos are older builds and the bugs and problems are only related to that. Then wait a little while longer, get a cleaner demo and come out with it later.

Quite frankly there is almost no evidence that demos help games. I personally think sleeper/unknown games can benefit from demos if their product is good. Bad demos kill sales and AAA titles probably aren't affected too much. The Show 12 didn't even release a demo this year.

Personally I get the feeling that the Madden team is in no rush to release a demo because I suspect the first reaction by many will be that they don't see the infinity engine changing gameplay. I must admit MOST of the gameplay footage looks pretty much like Madden 12 (which wasn't a bad thing IMO). I actually think Madden would be better served NOT having a demo. On a side-note I see there is speculation that in CCM you cannot change the cpu uniform. That is just bizarre if that's the case. Talk about killing user CUSTOMIZATION.