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No more NASCAR games

Thursday 3-Sep-2009 2:00 PM EA lets the franchise go
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If you thought driving round in circles was exciting then you'll be gutted to learn that EA plans no more official NASCAR games.

"There are no plans right now for NASCAR from EA," Peter Moore told Gamespot. "We had a great relationship over the years that I thoroughly enjoyed when I first got here. Unfortunately...we had to make some tough trade-offs. We've had to redeploy some of those folks.

"A number of the NASCAR team has moved over now to EA Sports MMA, which will be shipping next year. [We're] still a huge fan of NASCAR, but no plans right now to develop any further games for NASCAR from EA Sports."

Looks like it's up to the Need For Speed games to continue bringing home the racing bacon.

CVG Staffcomputerandvideogames.com
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not much of a shock seeing as polyphony have the nascar licence for gt5. and the wrc licence so hers hoping that'll wash away the sickening taste of dirt 2........
collyboy187 on 3 Sep '09
Polyphony just do a better job with Nascar than EA have done ever. Plz Cool
ruley1979 on 3 Sep '09
not much of a shock seeing as polyphony have the nascar licence for gt5. and the wrc licence so hers hoping that'll wash away the sickening taste of dirt 2........

I must admit to not being too enthralled by the Dirt 2 demo - being as it just felt plain wrong.

I too hope that the Rally section of GT5 is more authentic.
Mark240473 on 3 Sep '09
Considering how enjoyable Polyphony Digital made racing round circles enjoyable (particulary the faster cars) in their previous entries to the GT series I cant wait to see how they handle the Nascar licence. I can't see them balls it up in he same way EA Sports did anyway.
starsail on 3 Sep '09
EA made a NASCAR game!?
SleepySheep28 on 3 Sep '09
If GT5 has the Nascar licence, which it does, and if it continues to be in future GT games, there's absolutely no point for any more Nascar. I always thought it was a turd of a genre, and had no interest at all in it.
The Bossman on 3 Sep '09
Bah! NASCAR was always rubbish. Let's see what GT5 can do.
BIGAL-1992 on 3 Sep '09
If GT5 has the Nascar licence, which it does, and if it continues to be in future GT games, there's absolutely no point for any more Nascar. I always thought it was a turd of a genre, and had no interest at all in it.

Yes, It's a horrible sub-genre.

However, with EA driving the NASCAR license we could have seen another 3 or 4 annual iterations of NASCAR games before GT5 might possibly show up.
kricca on 4 Sep '09
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