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Rumor: EA Sending Need for Speed to Junkyard
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SUSalmattitude_v1
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 Dec 14 2008, 02:57 PM, updated 18y ago
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QUOTE Rumor: EA Sending Need for Speed to Junkyard
The Electric Playground's show on Friday reported that Electronic Arts has cancelled development of new titles in its Need for Speed franchise. An EA spokesman gave a generic response that did not dispel the rumor. Electronic Playground did not name its source. Reached for comment, EA said: "We're working through a process on people, products, and facilities at EA and don't have any announcements today." That's no defense for a franchise that goes back to 1994, so, it sounds like something's up. Need for Speed: Undercover released to very unenthusiastic reviews, to put it charitably. It was one of the titles named by analysts in this week's news that holiday sales would be sharply lower than expected, news that sent the publisher's stock into a dive. EA CEO John Riccitello said the company would cut titles from its "bottom levels of profitability," which exempts EA's sports catalogue. EA-owned Black Box Studios is the home of NFS. But it also develops FIFA, NBA Live, NHL and others for EA. Correction, that is EA Canada. EA Black Box makes Need for Speed and Skate. Killing NFS would be a serious blow. Source I have yet to play NFS: Undercover, but I heard its not so good... What EA needs to do is not try to fix it if it isnt broken! Most Wanted was fantastic, I dont understand why they changed the formula from then on... Their games were generally downhill from then on... Its not that they cant do it, but somehow, they just seem to f*** it up... Carbon, for example, was horrible! |
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Kyoyagami
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Dec 14 2008, 03:31 PM
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KyoYagami-myed
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According to Gamespot (2008), Black Box's staff is also being shaved away due to economic concerns.
dammit, my research mode is still on. Anyways, even after 2 years that the community has given to Black Box, they still managed to really screw NFS up. And here we all were hoping for another Most Wanted, which totally rocks in terms of style, difficulty, and every single other thing thrown into.
This needs to be scraped.
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msn83235502
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Dec 14 2008, 04:32 PM
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they should not cut it off.. just make it better.. nfs is already been a very famous titles since i was a kid.
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ahmadkhairil
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Dec 14 2008, 07:39 PM
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New Member
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scrap it
the only worthwhile arcade racer is burnout
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shahreza2000
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Dec 14 2008, 07:43 PM
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Getting Started
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NFS series always on top of things... they were always being the best racing games... developers ran out of ideas, perhaps??? they churned out generic racing games...
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Zaryl
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Dec 14 2008, 09:01 PM
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Easy. Bring back the good old NFS to it's original glory times . Exotic cars (Ferrari, Lambogini, porsche, etc), racing alongside beach roads, mountains, you know, the old NFS1-4 days? I don't quite fancy this japanese performance cars with modification/undercover/fast n furious stuff, it's getting old lah. Just my 2 cents!  |
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kobe8byrant
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Dec 14 2008, 09:19 PM
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No need- it's best NFS dies and they put in a NEW franchise. A new name = NO expectations. =)
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K-End
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Dec 14 2008, 10:27 PM
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and i thought the new NFS is Need For Speed: Junkyard  well...send it directly to junkyard is a reckless move...they should put the NFS francise into "ON Hold" status for the series to take a break. Most Wanted it the last best NFS francise i've ever play and i didnt even touch NFS game after that...it seem it just lost it sting |
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shahreza2000
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Dec 14 2008, 10:32 PM
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Getting Started
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QUOTE(K-End @ Dec 14 2008, 10:27 PM) and i thought the new NFS is Need For Speed: Junkyard well...send it directly to junkyard is a reckless move...they should put the NFS francise into "ON Hold" status for the series to take a break. Most Wanted it the last best NFS francise i've ever play and i didnt even touch NFS game after that...it seem it just lost it sting Need for Speed Junkyard... i thought it aldy as Burnout Paradise... |
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Kyoyagami
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Dec 14 2008, 10:38 PM
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KyoYagami-myed
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A new racing franchise from another team would be good.
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pel
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Dec 15 2008, 01:29 AM
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I still thinks that nfs:carbon is still...... ok.
This post has been edited by pel: Jan 3 2009, 09:42 AM
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SSJBen
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Dec 15 2008, 02:05 AM
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Back then, NFS and NFS2 was the best arcade racer on the PC. There was no beating it. When it came to the PS1, it still ruled with Hot Pursuit and High Stakes.
Hot Pursuit 2 was one of the pioneer arcade racers during the early life of the PS2, but it was clear that things are starting to get a little bit stale.
NFS: Underground was the changing phenomenon. It brought car cuztomisation into a new level and it brought in many "tuner-wannabes" into the racing realm. The amount of sales NFS: Underground generated was insane(considering it is also one of the most pirated games ever)
Underground 2.... utter dissapointment. The open-end world was stupid IMO and the races were just not good enough already. Its less intense.
Then came Most Wanted, which did brought the series back to its roots. Police chases were back and Most Wanted was actually a pretty damn good game, although it did get repetitive after a while.
After that, the entire NFS series has just taken the shitter... Carbon blows, Prostreet was utter trash and Undercover.... jeez...
So yea, I'm somewhat happy to see the NFS series take the cann. I'm sick and tired of it....
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shahreza2000
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Dec 15 2008, 02:11 AM
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Getting Started
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When i heard abt NFS Prostreet... i was like ... wth is this? A lot of speculation abt NFS since then... ppl expecting most wanted style or some sort of exotic cars...
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snipersnake
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Dec 15 2008, 08:31 AM
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QUOTE(SSJBen @ Dec 15 2008, 02:05 AM) Hot Pursuit 2 was one of the pioneer arcade racers during the early life of the PS2, but it was clear that things are starting to get a little bit stale. Killer soundtracks, exotic cars, beautiful tracks, tight controls, innovative gameplay, the BEST NFS EVER. |
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jackhammer84
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Dec 15 2008, 10:35 AM
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Getting Started
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well, it's about time!
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SSJBen
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Dec 15 2008, 04:53 PM
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QUOTE(snipersnake @ Dec 15 2008, 08:31 AM) Killer soundtracks, exotic cars, beautiful tracks, tight controls, innovative gameplay, the BEST NFS EVER. True, true.... that was what NFS was all about back then. Thats the TRUE NFS. Not all these tuner-shit that we have been getting for years now. |
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unrealweapon
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Dec 15 2008, 04:57 PM
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my first try on the NDS Undercover DS, played for about 5 minutes and i left it to rot, my bro on the other hand, completed the game when he borrowed my ds..--' OMG... i told him, u finished the game!
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Evirober
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Dec 15 2008, 05:07 PM
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Man the good old days of NFS was playing the game and watching the video explanation of the cars....yummy......
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evofantasy
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Dec 15 2008, 07:47 PM
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QUOTE(snipersnake @ Dec 15 2008, 08:31 AM) Killer soundtracks, exotic cars, beautiful tracks, tight controls, innovative gameplay, the BEST NFS EVER. pretty much agree on this... its the last NFS which i acutally finished... nowadays when i got a need for speed, burnout's my game! |
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SUSalmattitude_v1
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Dec 15 2008, 07:53 PM
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QUOTE We've received a tip from someone a purported EA employ who wishes to remain anonymous. According to this source, the Need for Speed series isn't shutting down -- but EA Black Box, the development team behind recent entries into the series, "most likely" is. The source explains that EA not only scrapped their plans to open up a new studio in Vancouver, but that they also decided to close Black Box, moving the NFS and Skate teams to their much larger Burnaby studios.
The source further details the fate of Need for Speed -- he claims that one of the next entries into the series will be developed by the EA-owned Criterion Games, and will likely use the engine of their racing series, Burnout. He also claims that there are three different teams within Black Box that are responsible for developing Need for Speed titles (which is how they're able to release a new NFS title every year) -- though these three teams will likely consolidate into one, leading to less NFS releases, more continuity between said releases, and, ultimately, drastic downsizing for the NFS teams. |
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