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Madden 2006 Pricing Going Up!

I don’t know how many of you readers are console gamers, or follow the football video game industry very closely but if you recall earlier this year, EA Games signed an exclusive deal with the NFL, allowing EA Games to be the only distributor of NFL games for the next 5 years. So basically what this does, is allows EA Games to make a monopoly of the Pro-Football industry on Videogame Consoles as well as PCs.

Last year if you recall, as well as the year before Take-Two Interactive published a far superior football game titled, ESPN NFL 2K5. Not only was this game better then EA’s cash cow of Madden but it sold for $20 USD yes, TWENTY DOLLARS. On top of ESPN NFL 2K5 selling for $20, it pressured EA Games into selling it’s Madden 2005 for a lower then normal price of, $30.

However, now that EA Games has inked that exclusive agreement with the NFL, all competition is gone. Not only did EA Games gobble up that lucrative NFL deal, they also signed an exclusive deal with ESPN for rights to the network’s name. Now that EA Games has gobbled up both of those licenses, EA plans on charging $50 for their second rate NFL game.

You can also view and confirm the higher prices at EBGames.

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