No more Godfather games, says EA News
News by Ellie Gibson
EA Games boss Frank Gibeau has said there won't be any more games based on the Godfather films.
"We're not going to do another one," he told the LA Times. Gibeau confirmed there are no Godfather titles listed on EA's three-year schedule, adding, "The bloom is really off the rose for licensed games."
However, there has since been a bit of post-interview vaguifying going on. A spokesperson for Paramount said, "Plans for the next Godfather game have not been decided."
Then an EA representative stated, "We do not currently have a Godfather game in development. Nothing has been decided as to future sequels. Paramount is a great partner."
Looks like we'll have to wait and see, then.
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Vice.Destroyer
08/06/09 @ 08:23
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It's a shame, but completely understandable. After all the care and attention lavished on the game (hey, I loved them both), you'd expect them to do Saints Row numbers. Instead? Ah well.
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Triggerhappytel
08/06/09 @ 10:20
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Translation - they both failed to meet sales expectations and their licence was for two games based on the franchise.
Although maybe his comment on licences not being a big deal has some truth; EA don't seem too bothered about getting movie licences and so on any more. Leave that to ActiBlizz and Ubisoft. |
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spindoctor
08/06/09 @ 11:06
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If you make a bad game, it won't sell. Period. That is independent of whether it's a licensed property or not. Instead of admitting that they should have made a better game, they choose to say that licensed games don't work. Brilliant.
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Triggerhappytel
08/06/09 @ 12:46
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"If you make a bad game, it won't sell. Period."
Didn't Shaun White Snowboarding sell 3 million copies? - and the abhorred PS360 version made up around half that. |
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CountFapula
08/06/09 @ 13:47
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I liked the first two godfathers a lot.
I think people bashing them probably haven't even played them- they are solid games, the second one was actually a really good crime syndicate simulator, and was more an action-rpg than anything else. |
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Mentalist(air)
08/06/09 @ 18:20
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Presumably they'll wait 20 years, then make a sequel featuring John Riccitello's daughter that everyone reckons is not as good as the originals were.
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