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Sports and horse racing
Published on December 29, 2011 By magigliotti1

When I see the list of top selling games I am puzzled by the lack of sports games on the list.  When I think about the sheer number of people on a Saturday partaking college football, the horse track, NASCAR.  Yet fantsy games top the charts.  There are more fans of the Knights Templar than football is hard to believe.  Horse racing is coast to coast every week, made easier by online betting sites.  So I was puzzled by what sells.  Then I bought some horse racing games and football games, the answer became clear.  Those involved in making these products do not know a thing about how to throw a football or horse racing.  When you do not make a quality product, fans do not buy it.  Sports fans, horse racing fans are the most knowledgeable and put our money where the points of the odds are.  Make a good product we will buy it, a bad product does not sell.  Think of the number of people in front of the TV, at the track, the game, OTB, Xpressbet.  These are all potential purchasers who spend money.  Make a quality product, one which actually executes football, racing, etc. it will get purchased.  The products today are not football, horse racing or the like, they do not execute.  The do not perform the game.

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January 1st 2012, at 12:23 PM

Finally someone gets it! One thing that was forgotten is that companies keep flooding the market with these so called sports titles. Why would someone go out and buy a new 2013 edition of a game when the 2012 or 2011 versions are just as good. Maybe instead of doing annual full releases, why can't companies just release a single version of the game, support it with DLC and title updates for 2-3 years and take that 2-3 years to craft a better version of the game.

The example I like to use is Mass Effect. The first game was awesome but remained in the Shadow of Bioshock and Halo 3, but Bioware took their time with ME2 and when it released a little more than 2 years later, it just blew so many people away and skyrocketed to GOTY status for many publications. It was also supported by numerous DLC add-ons leading upto the release of Mass Effect 3 after another 2 years.

 

January 3rd 2012, at 5:12 PM

I personally think sports games sell better on console for one thing. Also I think sports games are a smaller market when taken in context, some sports games are a big seller if the quality is high, but do not capture the imagination of the games playng public as a whole. Especially with the endless updated versions. But Football as example, whether in American form or European (i.e. Soccer) is so huge a sport it will always be popular, but surely sports fans spend less time playing video games than the rest of us... don't they?

March 14th 2012, at 8:23 PM

I agree. Most sport games are also pointless to try and figure out.

stix619

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