Madden NFL 22has been a series the fanbase could set its collective watches by. The month, if not the week the game comes out every year has been an easy one to predict. There’s also the fact that, good or bad, it hasn’t been hard to guesswhat’s going to be included in the nextMadden NFLgame from one year to another. The rollout, what sort of features would be included, and even when to expect the official announcement are all things that tend to come every year consistently. However, it appears thatMadden NFL 22is going to break with one of the series' most important traditions: consistency.
It seems extremely unlikely that Electronic Arts is going to skip a year with itsMadden NFLseries. There’s simply too much at stake for the franchise. Whether talking about the fact that Madden Ultimate Team is one of its biggest moneymakers or the fact that this will be the first full release on the new consoles; there’s too much money to be made. So why hasn’t Madden NFL 22 been announced yet? That’s the big tradition that EA seems to be breaking with this year’s edition. It has almost never been this late in the spring before the next installment was at least announced, if not already shown off.
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What’s Taking So Long For Madden NFL 22?
All the usual indicators ofwhen to expect an announcement aboutMadden NFL 22in the past have to be thrown out the window at this point. In the last 10 years, there has only been one version of Madden NFL that was announced by EA this late in the spring.Madden NFL 19was announced in the last week of May, which isn’t necessarily reflective of a bad thing. It’s not unheard of for the game to get a later spring reveal.
The bad news is that, in the last 10 years, the overwhelming majority of the reveal dates have actually been in April. The few otherMay announcement dates forMadden NFLhave come in early to mid-May. How many times has Electronic Arts waited even until the first week of June to unveil an installment in the incredibly long-running series? In the last decade, that number is zero. Not once. So while EA and theMaddenfranchise “may be breaking a serious tradition,” the fact is that it’s already broken that tradition.
Mic Drop Moment? Or Cause For Concern With Madden NFL 22?
The big question that comes along with the realization that the game’s announcement is late, is why? There is a chance that Electronic Arts is simplywaiting for E3 2021since it’s waited this long already. Alongside the announcement at what is still one of or the biggest video game conferences, comes potential hope that EA is going to have a “mic drop moment” alongside the official announcement. Fans of the series have been waiting for a big change to the series, and perhaps this is the year those big changes are delivered.
However, a skeptic might let their thoughts wander in the opposite direction. Perhaps EA isn’t making the reveal the spectacle it has in the past, because there just isn’t that much to get excited about. There’s even the built-in rationale that the pandemic simply made it too hard to make wholesale changes toMadden. The question that follows that being the rationale, though, is whether or notexpectations thatMadden NFL 22was going to make some big changeswould sway fans in any way. At least some of the questions surrounding the game will likely be answered when the game is finally announced.
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