Take-Two signs deal with Major League Baseball

[Solid Fro]

Although, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo can all create MLB games exclusively for their own consoles, Take-Two is the only developer who can create games on all platforms with this license. The deal will last seven years and will start in 2006.

Now, my question is... do you hate Take-Two just as much as EA for hogging the license for a certain sport?

Revenge is a dish best served cold...

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050124/nym186_1.html

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/01/24/news_6116946.html

 

[a6m5]

I'm furious at E.A., and this makes me stay mad at E.A. I am little annoyed by Take-Two's move, but clearly, it's an countermeasure to E.A. trying to monopolize the major(MLB/NBA/NFL) sports video game market. In my opinion, new agreement allowing the makers of the hardwares to still make MLB games shows that they are not going for monopoly.

I wouldn't want to buy any E.A.'s NFL or NBA games, but wouldn't hesitate buying Take-Two's MLB game.

 

[Jedi2016]

Actually, I think Take-Two did it much better than EA usually does it. It's only a third-party arrangement.. Nintendo, Sony, and Micro$oft can still make fully-licensed MLB games. So Take-Two technically isn't hogging the sandbox as much as EA does.

EDIT: That reminds me of something else:

I was listening to EA's third-quarter conference call today. Someone asked them about the MLB deal, and they explained briefly why they didn't go after the license as hard as they otherwise would have: it wasn't an exclusive. They weren't interested in a "partial exclusive" that still left other developers capable of making MLB games.. they wanted it all for themselves, or not at all. So they allowed Take-Two to win the bid.

One more thing that demonstrates EA's business attitude.

 

[a6m5]

I was listening to EA's third-quarter conference call today. Someone asked them about the MLB deal, and they explained briefly why they didn't go after the license as hard as they otherwise would have: it wasn't an exclusive. They weren't interested in a "partial exclusive" that still left other developers capable of making MLB games.. they wanted it all for themselves, or not at all. So they allowed Take-Two to win the bid.

One more thing that demonstrates EA's business attitude.

Wow. Microsoft of video game publishing is born. Those two and Comcast should merge and form an large corporate entity together, they can call it "Umbrella Corporation".