What is up with NCAA football games?

I am going to come right out and say it, but I think that EA has not made a decent football game since 2007 which was the last title for PS2. Once they made the switch over to PS3 everything went downhill. What the heck happened? I was an avid NCAA player but now I can't stand seeing the thing without having urges to pull my hair out.




There are two main problems that come with the NCAA games. The first is fluidity in the graphics. The graphics seem fine while you play because everything happens so fast you don't notice it but if you pause and watch the replays you can see everyone is very robotic and jerky while they run and I believe this occurs because of all the information that the PS3 is trying to process for the stadiums and the people. The first couple of games had 2 dimensional people in the stadium which made it very easy for the PS3 to process, now EA is trying to make more and more people 3 dimensional to make the stadiums more realistic and I am afraid that the game ends up being laggy because of it. Don't get me wrong, I think the PS3 is one of the most powerful consoles on the market today BUT the downfall is the fact that producers only decided to put 256MB of system memory and 256MB of video memory into it. That brings the total RAM to 512 MB which is barely anything compared to what PC's are running these days. You are only as good as your worst hardware and the RAM is definitely the weak spot for PS3.

The second problem with the NCAA games is the fact that nothing huge ever changes with the games. Introducing new players, plays, and maybe a new game mode isn't that big of a change for me. I guess that because I have always had high hopes for the NCAA games that they would develop something that would blow my mind but it never happens. They are pretty much selling me the same game every year so I decided to stop getting them.

I honestly think EA is holding back in their game-making ability because what if you did make the perfect game? If you set the bar so high that you can't beat it the following year, you just screwed yourself. So I think they hold back a little bit because they actually DO want those small changes every year to keep people interested in there games.