Why isn't there a GAA game for Xbox/Ps3?

Yurt

Why haven't EA or some other big developers decided to make a decent Gaa game for the Ps3/Xbox. Isthere any chance of a new one coming out,In fairness the Hurling and Football games were the best sellers in 06.

Surely the demand for a good sport's game would go further than die hard Gaa fans.I know i've played games like Madden and NHL over the years and wouldn't have any interest in the sport.

It would also help the GAA grow.The amount of people in the states and other countries that are amazed when they see clips of hurling on youtube for the first time is surprising.

Banjo String

There is

Ye didn't look too hard tbh.

Yurt

SamHall wrote: »

There is

Ye didn't look too hard tbh.

There isn't

vicwatson

Is

Thwip!

i remember the old one on the PS2....god it was horrendous

DEFTLEFTHAND

Not a big enough market I'd say. The GAA games released for PS2 weren't great imo, the gameplay was poor.

lkionm

As well as long not looking hard enough for the game, you also didn't look hard enough for the right forum to ask in.

baztard

The potential market is too small i'd imagine. While the games would sell well here they probably wouldn't sell many outside of ireland. Feck all money to be made!

MrStuffins

Yurt wrote: »

Why haven't EA or some other big developers decided to make a decent Gaa game for the Ps3/Xbox. Isthere any chance of a new one coming out,In fairness the Hurling and Football games were the best sellers in 06.

I would bet a serious amount of money that this isn't true.

If you meant "in Ireland", i'd be pretty sure that's not true either!

Banjo String

Thwip! wrote: »

i remember the old one on the PS2....god it was horrendous

Yeah, sorry op that's the one I was thinking off too.

Ps2........

Sorry can't help.

Yurt

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Not a big enough market I'd say. The GAA games released for PS2 weren't great imo, the gameplay was poor.

Exactly.It was a terrible game made by amateurs and it still went on to be the best selling game of the year.

Yurt

MrStuffins wrote: »

I would bet a serious amount of money that this isn't true.

If you meant "in Ireland", i'd be pretty sure that's not true either!

Ya i do mean in Ireland

SV

Yurt wrote: »

Exactly.It was a terrible game made by amateurs and it still went on to be the best selling game of the year.

best selling game of the year? really now?

MrStuffins

Yurt wrote: »

Ya i do mean in Ireland

Any links or proof to show it was the biggest selling game of the year?

bigron2109

There was one out. I remember seeing it and looking at the Graphics and seeing clips for it and thinking it was shocking. Think it was a bit of a flop.

FionnK86

Hahaha the commentators at halftime..."now the players are going in for a cup of tea and a banana!"

Wilberto

There definitely was. Except, ultimately, it was so shockingly bad that it just didn't survive.

That was for the PS2 though


May have even made a second one for either the PS2 or PS3.

If they did, that was also horrifically bad.


After that they just gave up, and rightly so.

mfceiling

The developers couldn't get realistic images of the crowd eating ham sandwiches with O'neill's Jerseys that are 15 years older than the current team ones whilst being 2 sizes too small...

kwestfan08

Yurt wrote: »

Exactly.It was a terrible game made by amateurs and it still went on to be the best selling game of the year.

You see define best selling game of the year in Ireland? 25,000 being really kind? There just isn't the market OP. I know there's other niche sports games being sold here like Madden or NHL live or whatever but they aren't made for with the Irish market in mind. Outside of Ireland the game would sell fook all and wouldn't break even I would imagine

GLaDOS

There'd be practically no market outside of Ireland, wouldn't be worth a big developer's time to bother.

lkionm

Hey, why dont you make one?

KeithM89

There was 2 on the PS2

Both were utter horsesh1t though.

Jimoslimos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDAo9FCWX4g

This is why. Gameplay was atrocious.

TBH there isn't the market here to fund any sort of meaningful development.

krudler

MrStuffins wrote: »

Any links or proof to show it was the biggest selling game of the year?

It was in the top 5 anyway, I worked in HMV when it was released, we sold out of it a few times and then got stuck with a rake of them after christmas when people realised how appallingly bad it was and returned it. :pac:

Aha, found it: http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fsoftware%2Fire%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=210005&arch=t&lyr=2005&year=2005&week=50

outsold Call of Duty 2, WWE Smackdown and Pro Evo n the run up to Christmas that year.

orestes

Scylla wrote: »

There was 2 on the PS2

Both were utter horsesh1t though.

There was a hurling game too. There is no force of gods or man that could make me ever even consider playing it.

jill_valentine

krudler wrote: »

It was in the top 5 anyway, I worked in HMV when it was released, we sold out of it a few times and then got stuck with a rake of them after christmas when people realised how appallingly bad it was and returned it. :pac:

Bwahahaha, yeah.

I worked in a video game store at the time. Sold like mad for about two weeks, and then you could almost hear the whole city scream "JESUS CHRIST THIS IS AWFUL!" simultaneously.

We got so many traded back in that we had to stop taking them.

In fact, we had a playstation bundle that came with a copy, and even at a tenner cheaper than the regular one, we still couldn't sell it. In effect, we literally couldn't pay people to take it.

vicwatson

mfceiling wrote: »

The developers couldn't get realistic images of the crowd eating ham sandwiches with O'neill's Jerseys that are 15 years older than the current team ones whilst being 2 sizes too small...

Don't you mean hang sandwiches and not ham sandwiches?

mike65

Did they have the fella with John 3:7?

vicwatson

Jimoslimos wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDAo9FCWX4g

This is why. Gameplay was atrocious.

TBH there isn't the market here to fund any sort of meaningful development.

Oh please make it stop, make it stopppppp

MrStuffins

krudler wrote: »

It was in the top 5 anyway, I worked in HMV when it was released, we sold out of it a few times and then got stuck with a rake of them after christmas when people realised how appallingly bad it was and returned it. :pac:

Aha, found it: http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fsoftware%2Fire%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=210005&arch=t&lyr=2005&year=2005&week=50

outsold Call of Duty 2, WWE Smackdown and Pro Evo n the run up to Christmas that year.

Top 5 I bet, but for some reason all I could think was "Sold more than Fifa? Get the f*ck!"

krudler

jill_valentine wrote: »

Bwahahaha, yeah.

I worked in a video game store at the time. Sold like mad for about two weeks, and then you could almost hear the whole city scream "JESUS CHRIST THIS IS AWFUL!" simultaneously.

We got so many traded back in that we had to stop taking them.

In fact, we had a playstation bundle that came with a copy, and even at a tenner cheaper than the regular one, we still couldn't sell it. In effect, we literally couldn't pay people to take it.

Haaa, I remember that, it was an official GAA bundle and it was cheaper than buying just the normal ps2 on its own, and people would rather pay more and get the standard blue boxed ps2 than the one with the GAA logo plastered all over it.

Gorilla Rising

Because it's p1ss easy to knock a football over the bar.

jill_valentine

krudler wrote: »

Haaa, I remember that, it was an official GAA bundle and it was cheaper than buying just the normal ps2 on its own, and people would rather pay more and get the standard blue boxed ps2 than the one with the GAA logo plastered all over it.

That's the one. And even when we started running out of any playstations, people still took persuading.

Say Your Number

The first one is probably the worst game I have ever played, the second actually wasnt that bad, at least it was playable. I know its never going to happen but I would love to see what it would be like if Konami or 2K Sports made a GAA game.

Wilberto

fortune wookiee wrote: »

Because it's p1ss easy to knock a football over the bar.

If this video is anything to go by then it's clearly not!

Jimoslimos wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDAo9FCWX4g

recyclebin

I bought that game in HMV on Grafton street when it came out first. It was terrible. Luckily with HMV you could return it no questions asked. So that's what I did and got Pro Evo instead.

krudler

jill_valentine wrote: »

That's the one. And even when we started running out of any playstations, people still took persuading.

Yup, We had one sitting on the stock room shelf for yonks, the manager wrote it off as faulty and we put it in the canteen to use :pac:

ColeTrain

They were shockingly bad. I still can't believe they tested the games and decided to release them.

Gorilla Rising

Wilberto wrote: »

If this video is anything to go by then it's clearly not!

There's a distinct lack of Mikasa gloves in that video.

Kidchameleon

Sensible Soccer Gaelic Football

Rayne Wooney

kwestfan08 wrote: »

You see define best selling game of the year in Ireland? 25,000 being really kind? There just isn't the market OP. I know there's other niche sports games being sold here like Madden or NHL live or whatever but they aren't made for with the Irish market in mind. Outside of Ireland the game would sell fook all and wouldn't break even I would imagine

25,000 sold? I think I paid 45 quid for it. Some of my mates paid €50

Taking in roughly €1.2 million on a game that looks to have been thrown together in a week is not bad.

Duckworth_Luas

Wasn't that game made in Australia? It was just an AFL game changed slightly for Ireland.

Say Your Number

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Wasn't that game made in Australia? It was just an AFL game changed slightly for Ireland.

It was made by an Austrailian company called IR Gurus, they went out of business in 2009.

abdul 1995

i can make a game for you guys from my home and sell it to you what do you think? one thing for sure it will be better than the past versions

DEFTLEFTHAND

Yeah the first one had all the licensed jerseys with correct sponsors, it also had the grounds. However if I remember correctly the GPA (players association) failed to reach an agreement with the developers, so no real player names were featured.

I never bothered with the follow up or the hurling game, were they any better?

kingcobra

Sure the game was so bad it ended up being great craic playing it!

kwestfan08

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

25,000 sold? I think I paid 45 quid for it. Some of my mates paid €50

Taking in roughly €1.2 million on a game that looks to have been thrown together in a week is not bad.

Taking out the stores cut, development budget, marketing budget, manufacturing etc I doubt it turned that big of a profit. Certainly not enough for any serious developer to consider it. The 25k figure I just pulled out of the air tbh. Wouldnt have a clue how much it would take to top the year end charts.

Yurt

But if they actually made it into a good game do you think that people with no interest in the sport would buy it ?

Chavways

Because nobody will buy it. Even if 30-40000 people buy it(which is probably optimistic) they'll hardly make back the money they spent on developing it.

And as far as I can remember the last effort at making a GAA game was abysmal.

Amirani

Yurt wrote: »

But if they actually made it into a good game do you think that people with no interest in the sport would buy it ?

No.

Yurt

NiallSparky wrote: »

No.

But people buy Madden,NHL,Tiger Woods etc....I know they have massive markets compared to GAA but i'd still like to see what % of people that buy these games are actually fans of the sport.