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They're not so keen on licences nowadays.

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 #1 3 years ago

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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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matrim83 #2 3 years ago

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Does anyone care?

Thought so.
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Vice.Destroyer #3 3 years ago

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I care.
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spenner #4 3 years ago

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It made me think of what you once told me: "In five years the Corleone family will be completely legitimate." That was seven years ago.
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Darren #5 3 years ago

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Translation: Godfather II sold poorly so we won't be making any more games.
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Toothball #6 3 years ago

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Wow, EA admitting that licenses and sequels aren't really all that any more? They might actually become my favourite Publisher at this rate.
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Triggerhappytel #7 3 years ago

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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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dsmx #8 3 years ago

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If the games had of been better then they might of sold better
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davisorle #9 3 years ago

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Well for a game that it's sequel sold only 250K units, i dont find a reason why they would wanna go on and make a third one.. It was a pretty bad one indeed..
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spindoctor #10 3 years ago

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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.

Edited by 1 at 08/06/09 @ 12:07
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MyPointIs #11 3 years ago

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That's because the third movie wasn't as good as the first two. So the movie wouldn't make justice to the game
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Triggerhappytel #12 3 years ago

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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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DUFFMAN5 #13 3 years ago

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Countfapula speaks the truth. I played Godfather on xbox and 360, completed Godfather II a couple of weeks ago and loved all of them.
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MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #14 3 years ago

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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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bad09 #15 3 years ago

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"The bloom is really off the rose for licensed games."

Well if you lot actually made GOOD licensed games........
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