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Sports Titles Named Misleadingly?

Posted by simoniker on from the nbl-blitzball-2400 dept.

According to an accusatory column in the sports section of the New York Post, naming the 2003-season sports videogame titles as 'Sports Game Title 2004' is dishonest. The writer suggests that "..when it comes to selling video games.. Major League Baseball and all big-league sports eagerly sell their licenses and logos to manufacturers who can't or won't tell the simplest and most significant of truths.." Have you been confused by this naming method, or do you think it's fair and understandable?

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  1. Storm in a teacup by grahamwest · · Score: 3, Informative

    The games are named after the seasons for the sports. The leagues all designate the season by the year in which the 'final' is played. This september will see the start of the 2004 NFL season because the Superbowl for that season will be played in Februrary of 2004. As such the NFL videogames coming out at that time will be Madden 2004, NFL2K4 and so on.

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  2. Industry Standards by windowpain · · Score: 2, Informative

    They do this in the magazine industry too. The copies of Newsweek and Time that came out today are dated May 26. Monthly magazines are dated a month or two in advance. So I just think of the cover date as the date the magazine will be pulled from the shelf.

    And of course the hard disk industry insists a megabyte is 1,000 bytes, not 1,024.

    Just assume they're goosing the stats and you won't be pissed off when they do.

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