EA Sports: Enough unaffiliated fighters to compete with UFC Undisputed
Last week we mentioned that the video game barons at EA Sports were planning on putting out their own MMA…
Last week we mentioned that the video game barons at EA Sports were planning on putting out their own MMA game in 2010 to rival THQ’s UFC Undisputed and we wondered out loud, just who the hell did they think they could put in this thing? Turns out they’ve thought of that. MMA Payout pointed us to this article in the Financial Times Tech Blog where EA’s chief executive, John Riccitiello claims that there are plenty of fighters to choose from because [m]ost of the athletes in mixed martial arts are unaffiliated.
When you compare the UFC’s overall roster with every pro fighter competing at every level, that’s obviously true. But does that mean you can really go head-to-head with Undisputed by tapping the relatively few big names not in the UFC (your Fedors, your Barnetts, your Jose Cansecos) and combining them with the Jason Guidas and “Crazy Horse” Bennetts of the fighting world? Sounds like EA thinks so: