“I think EA would have responded quite badly to that”.
A lot has been written this year about EA Sports’ decision to part ways with the FIFA brand to release EA Sports FC 24. However, what you might not know is that this could have happened much sooner than it eventually did.
When we were speaking to Tom Stone, EA’s former vice president of European marketing, recently for an article on The Making Of FIFA International Soccer, he told us about a memorable incident that happened in the run-up to renewing the license back in 1997, which could have seen Sony steal the exclusive worldwide rights to FIFA from under EA’s nose.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“I think EA would have responded quite badly to that”.
A lot has been written this year about EA Sports’ decision to part ways with the FIFA brand to release EA Sports FC 24. However, what you might not know is that this could have happened much sooner than it eventually did.
When we were speaking to Tom Stone, EA’s former vice president of European marketing, recently for an article on The Making Of FIFA International Soccer, he told us about a memorable incident that happened in the run-up to renewing the license back in 1997, which could have seen Sony steal the exclusive worldwide rights to FIFA from under EA’s nose.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
