A recent announcement from EA Sports has confirmed that the developer’s highly-anticipatedEA Sports College Footballis still a ways away, confirming a tentative release window. Theinitial reveal of the EA Sports college football gameearly last year was met with significant excitement from football fans. EA’s return to the college gridiron has been a long time coming with the last entry in the popularNCAA Footballseries coming nearly a decade ago. Now, EA has revealed fans will be waiting a couple more years for the return of college football video games.While EA Sports has not released a college football title in several years, theNCAA Footballfranchise was once a cornerstone of the developer’s annual game line-up. EA Sports was creating annual college football games as early as 1998 withNCAA Football 14serving as the last entry in the series. However, legal disputes over collegiate player likenesses brought the partnership to an end. Now, EA Sports has confirmed the release ofEA Sports College Footballwill be later than originally anticipated.RELATED:EA’s Upcoming NCAA College Football Game Could be Releasing on Mobile as well as ConsoleA recent interview with ESPN has revealedEA Sports College Footballcurrently isn’t planned to release until 2024, pushing the game back fromits previously leaked 2023 launch window. EA vice president and general manager Daryl Holt explained that the developer was “building the game from scratch” rather than using a previous engine. Despite the long wait for the game, Holt revealed EA Sports already has several Division 1 schools confirmed to appear within the game, as well as securing the rights to the NCAA’s conferences.
While the release ofEA Sports College Footballappears to be a couple of years away, several details regarding the game have already started to come out from EA. EA’s COO Blake Jorgenson spoke last year on howEA Sports College Footballwill improve player likenesseswithin the game, using a “database” to quickly and seamlessly integrate new players. The appearance of some teams within the game has also already come into question, with Notre Dame revealing it would not appear inEA Sports College Footballwithout player compensation.
Though college sports were once a regular part of EA’s yearly releases, both of the developer’s major college-based franchises have fallen dormant since the early 2010s. EA Sports' last college football game came with the previously-mentionedNCAA Football 2014in July 2013 whileNCAA Basketballhasn’t seen a new release sinceNCAA Basketball 2010. The developer also previously releasedNCAA Baseballgames in 2006 and 2007.EA Sports College Footballmarks a major returnto college athletics for the premiere sports game developer.
EA Sports College Footballis scheduled to release in 2024.
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