Good for Upper Deck! Hope they’ve got some good lawyers ready for the suit and counter-suit….
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Tom
You know, one thing I wondered about this, giving Topps the exclusive license for baseball cards: MLB made a similar BS play in regard to video games after the 2005 season, which really ticked me off, b/c ES Sports was just starting to get good at baseball, and was the best of the lot (and for at least a couple of years, there was no baseball game available for the PC). What exactly is baseball trying to accomplish here? Is there simply more money in the exclusive license, more even than selling several non-exclusives to multiple companies, as in the past?
@Tom: Baseball thinks so, but my guess is they would make more money selling to everyone. What if the game they back falls flat on its face? I grew up with the message, don’t put all your eggs in one basket. MLB doesn’t seem to have learned that lesson.
Good for Upper Deck! Hope they’ve got some good lawyers ready for the suit and counter-suit….
You know, one thing I wondered about this, giving Topps the exclusive license for baseball cards: MLB made a similar BS play in regard to video games after the 2005 season, which really ticked me off, b/c ES Sports was just starting to get good at baseball, and was the best of the lot (and for at least a couple of years, there was no baseball game available for the PC). What exactly is baseball trying to accomplish here? Is there simply more money in the exclusive license, more even than selling several non-exclusives to multiple companies, as in the past?
@Tom: Baseball thinks so, but my guess is they would make more money selling to everyone. What if the game they back falls flat on its face? I grew up with the message, don’t put all your eggs in one basket. MLB doesn’t seem to have learned that lesson.