{"id":55928,"date":"2013-07-03T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=55928"},"modified":"2013-07-03T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T10:34:14","slug":"why-no-ea-sports-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/55928-why-no-ea-sports-cricket","title":{"rendered":"Why no EA Sports Cricket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While EA Sports is the king of the sporting genre, there are a number of sports that have been overlooked for the last few years, cricket being one of them; and EA Sports has chimed in on the lack of the ole bat and ball simulation.<\/p>\n<p>EA Sports\u2019 Andrew Wilson was asked why the company doesn\u2019t make a cricket game for emerging markets, even if it is a mobile game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA cricket game really needs the sub-continent to make it viable,\u201d said Wilson. \u201cAnd there is a series of barriers with respect to the economics, infrastructure, the disparity of mobile devices and services there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The EA Sports executive vice president did say that if the opportunity presents itself in the right territories, then a new game will be on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the point that comes together, absolutely we\u2019ll do a cricket game,\u201d added Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson also mentioned that the previous Cricket games \u201cweren\u2019t all that great\u201d and added that maybe there&#8217;s \u201ca reinvention there at some time in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s comments would likely to apply to the lack of other sports titles, such as the community\u2019s long-desire to see a return of the EA Rugby franchise.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for a cricket fix, 505 Games\u2019 Ashes Cricket 2013 is scheduled for a release in July after being delayed.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/news\/read\/the-big-interview-ea-sports-andrew-wilson-on-coming-back-to-wii-u-giving-up-on-facebook-and-not-messing-up-ps4-or-xbox-one\/0118027\" target=\"_blank\">MVC<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/55881-gta-5-two-discs-for-360-multiplayer-info.html\">GTA 5: two discs for 360, multiplayer info<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/55811-four-miniature-computers-that-drastically-change-your-desktop.html\">4 miniature PCs that drastically change your desktop<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/55876-cod-ghosts-multiplayer-gets-dynamic-event-mechanic.html\">CoD Ghosts multiplayer gets \u201cdynamic event mechanic\u201d<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/55864-xbox-one-will-use-qr-codes-for-text-input.html\">Xbox One will use QR Codes for text input<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA Sports chimes in on why cricket has taken a backseat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":55929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,3838,10539,10541,10540,2928,10542],"class_list":["post-55928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-andrew-wilson","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-game","tag-ea-cricket","tag-ea-sports","tag-sports-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55931,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55928\/revisions\/55931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}