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EA Sports (stylized as EA SPORTS) is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games for people. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to imitate real-life sports networks by calling themselves the "EA Sports Network" (EASN) with pictures or endorsements with real commentators such as John Madden, it soon grew up to become a sub-label on its own, releasing game series such as ''NBA Live'', ''FIFA'', ''NHL'', ''Madden NFL'', and ''NASCAR''. The best selling EA Sports series is ''FIFA'' series with over 100 million units sold. Most games under this brand are developed by EA Canada, the studio of Electronic Arts in Burnaby, British Columbia, as well as EA Blackbox, Vancouver, British Columbia and EA Tiburon in Maitland, Florida. The main rival to EA Sports is 2K Sports. Notably, both companies compete over the realm of NBA games. EA Sports inherits its motto from its parent company, Electronic Arts''. "It's in the game".'' Unlike some other sport video companies, EA Sports has no special ties to a single platform, which means that all games are released for the best-selling active platforms, sometimes long after most of the other companies abandon them. For example, ''FIFA 98'', ''Madden NFL 98'', ''NBA Live 98'', and ''NHL 98'' were released for the Sega Genesis and the Super NES throughout 1997; ''Madden NFL 2005'' and ''FIFA 2005'' had PlayStation released in 2004 (''FIFA 2005'' was also the last PlayStation title to be released); and ''NCAA Football 08'' had an Xbox released in 2007. ''Madden NFL 08'' also had Xbox and GameCube releases in 2007, and was the final title released for the GameCube, with ''Madden NFL 09'' following as the final Xbox title. Additionally, ''NASCAR Thunder 2003'' and ''NASCAR Thunder 2004'' were released not only for the PlayStation 2, but for the original PlayStation as well. EA Sports brand name is used to sponsor English Football League One team Swindon Town F.C. from the 2009–10 season onwards and the EA Sports Cup in the Republic of Ireland. ==Series and games== Most EA Sports games are distinguished by year, as most games are released on a yearly basis. Nevertheless, as EA Sports is the leading purchaser of official licenses, it is not uncommon that in a short span several games of the same sport but with different licenses are released: ''FIFA 98'' was shortly followed by ''World Cup 98'' (as EA has the license for the FIFA World Cup and the European Football Championship, each happening regularly in four-year intervals), and college football and basketball games are released that are based on Madden NFL and NBA Live, respectively. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「EA Sports」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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