"Before you guys get your say, I'd like to throw in my idea for the series. This is an idea that EA would no doubt be incredibly wary to adopt, but that I think is completely necessary for the survival of their brand:

Every console generation, EA should launch one, and ONLY one Madden disc. From that point forward, every other yearly update of Madden would work as an expansion pack to that original disc, updating the rosters and adding in bug fixes, slight graphical updates, and entirely ne..."

"The Madden series is the undisputed king of football video games. They're entertaining games but as with World of Warcraft, another well-entrenched franchise, occasionally you have to wonder if anyone has a shot of knocking them off their pedestal. Well, in the case of Madden, the solution is simple: Mutant League Football."