Next Year's Madden, Others to Get Music Download Service

Joystiq is reporting that next year's version of Madden, and other subsequent EA games, will offer the ability to download new background music tracks. They have not yet said if this would be a pay-per-song service. "It might seem a bit silly for EA to offer a proprietary music download service when all current-gen consoles allow users to create their own custom soundtracks from their already-existing digital music collections. You have to realize, though, that EA needs to offer its own downloads so it can [...] gently suggest the latest hot track from Kid Rock to their captive audience of millions of players."

Comments

This is EA

[Predathar]

so of course it's going to be pay per song. Actually I think most companies would make it pay per song as well, but didn't EA start the whole micro payment thing anyway?

Re:Hopefully the record labels will pay

[Darkness404]

But you still have to download it. Games like Guitar Hero and DDR advertise more because of the fact that they are default and you hear the song over and over again as you play it. Think about it this way, if you asked someone who Dragonforce was before GH:3 they would likely have no clue, but afterwords they started recognizing them due to Through the Fire and the Flames.