EA CEO Andrew Wilson provided the latest update on EA Sports College Football during their Q1 2024 earnings conference call. We’ve transcribed what he said during the call below, but registered members can listen to it here. He briefly talks about licensing, how the gameplay is coming along, and a few other bits and pieces.
The team is making some incredible progress around college football. Again, we have a long history and an incredible legacy around building this great game, and in terms of the context of American football, in addition to our, you know, very, very famous and culturally relevant Madden franchise, college football has always played a meaningful part in gameplay in this country. The team’s doing an incredible job building out what will be the future of college football. Gameplay is really coming together and really capturing all of the action and pageantry and the difference in college football versus the NFL. I feel very confident in what the team’s doing.
We’re certainly, we’re working through the licensing situation broadly. As of now, we’ve got, you know, many if not most of the schools licensed as part of our licensing platform, and we’ll continue to work with the various governing bodies of the sport in the country and some key third-party parties that we have around how and when to include college athletes themselves into the game, and we’ll work very closely with them. But I’m confident that this will be, you know, an incredible reemergence of our college football experience, that it will capture all the action and pageantry driven by the schools and all that goes on with the schools and the college football game. And I do believe that we’ll find a place where we can work in lockstep with the athletes for inclusion in the game as well.
For the curious, the featured screenshot comes from our Photographic side of NCAA Football 14 thread, via terpinheelland.
