Reading over a few e3 things, this was rather interesting:
IGN Sports: What can we expect to see with the ESPN integration this year?
Steve Chiang: With ESPN, we really want to make our games connected. In the booth, we're going to show what we're doing with NBA Live and NCAA Football. There are a couple of different categories of features. In NCAA we have ESPN Classics mode, where you're taking your greatest games and you're making them Classics. We're going to be able to show that in the booth. On the NBA side, we're focusing more on the real-time data feeds and how they're going to be integrated in the new titles. MVP is a good example of how we're taking this, and certainly with the Xbox 360 and PS3, there is going to be a different paradigm for online gaming and how that works within our sports games. We're not going to be talking a lot about that, but there is a hint of that throughout what we're doing with NBA Live.
ESPN into the EA games this year? Excellent.
IGN Sports: What can we expect to see with the ESPN integration this year?
Steve Chiang: With ESPN, we really want to make our games connected. In the booth, we're going to show what we're doing with NBA Live and NCAA Football. There are a couple of different categories of features. In NCAA we have ESPN Classics mode, where you're taking your greatest games and you're making them Classics. We're going to be able to show that in the booth. On the NBA side, we're focusing more on the real-time data feeds and how they're going to be integrated in the new titles. MVP is a good example of how we're taking this, and certainly with the Xbox 360 and PS3, there is going to be a different paradigm for online gaming and how that works within our sports games. We're not going to be talking a lot about that, but there is a hint of that throughout what we're doing with NBA Live.
ESPN into the EA games this year? Excellent.