October 29, 2013. World No.1 Tiger Woods and Video games publisher EA Sports have made official that they are parting ways after 15-years of working together.
This means that the Tiger Woods series of vedio games will no longer be coming from EA Sports, but will instead transition to just being a PGA Tour game in the next generation of games.
EA Sports announced the end of the relationship in a statement on Monday while also revealing the first details of Next Gen Golf.
“EA SPORTS and Tiger Woods have also made a mutual decision to end our partnership, which includes Tiger’s named PGA TOUR golf game. We’ve always been big fans of Tiger and we wish him continued success in all his future endeavors.”
What will be the final product of the longstanding relationship between Woods and EA Sports, “Tiger Woods 14” was released in March 2013. It was the 16th title featuring Woods’ name going back to 1999.
“We had an incredible run,” Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, told Darren Rovell of ESPN.com. “Outside of Madden, you would be hard pressed to find a sports figure that meant as much to a video game company as a Tiger meant to EA. But times are changing and EA had to re-evaluate the partnership and frankly so did we.”
The franchise debuted with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99 in 1998 after Woods won his first major championship at the 1997 Masters and continued through its latest installment, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14.
No word yet on what caused the split that ended the multi-million dollar venture.
EA Sports says they’re “working on a new approach to deliver the best golf experience to our fans” and released a sneak-peek screenshot of what that will look like.
The statement from EA Sports confirmed it would continue to work with the PGA Tour and produce golf titles.
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