EA Sports boss Peter Moore has revealed they’ve parked up NASCAR in favour of the new mixed martial arts franchise they started. Need for Speed to fill the void?
Moore ”thoroughly enjoyed” the relationship with NASCAR when he first arrived, but EA Sports MMA looks too good to pass up. EA ”had to redeploy” the racer devs to the MMA project.
”There are no plans right now for NASCAR from EA,” 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,” he continued, but EA still remains ”a huge fan of NASCAR, but no plans right now to develop any further games for NASCAR from EA Sports.”
While NASCAR may be ditched, EA have been investing heavily in Need For Speed’s revival with NFS: Shift and NFS: Nitro. It could be the last chance the publisher has to prove the aging franchise still has something new and fresh to offer. Does no NASCAR get you down?
NASCAR, the one where they drive around in a big oval…
