My cynical take is that the rights to any video games for those franchises are owned by the likes of EA, who just like recycling the same game over and over, year to year, because it’s cheap and easy and brings in a boatload of profit from Mtx. Developing a new arcade style sports game would cost money and not be the guaranteed cash cow of, say, Madden 23.
It used to be the case in FIFA that EA had rights to the team’s names which is why games like PES had to have their nicknames and the like for their team names
My cynical take is that the rights to any video games for those franchises are owned by the likes of EA, who just like recycling the same game over and over, year to year, because it’s cheap and easy and brings in a boatload of profit from Mtx. Developing a new arcade style sports game would cost money and not be the guaranteed cash cow of, say, Madden 23.
It used to be the case in FIFA that EA had rights to the team’s names which is why games like PES had to have their nicknames and the like for their team names
Yeah, this is probably (sadly) the correct answer.