We’re almost a week away from the release of EA College Football 25 and fans of the long-absent series can’t wait to get their hands on it, even those who are just realizing they may have to buy a new console to play it.
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It probably won’t come as a huge surprise, but the people who’ve been waiting since NCAA Football 14 to play EA’s first installment of a college football game have grown up quite a bit in the decade since its release. Many of those players were in college themselves, or high school or even younger, and they’re now adults with full-time jobs and other responsibilities. That often means that gaming has taken a back seat over the years, so much so that many people weren’t even aware that their old Xbox and PlayStation systems couldn’t run the latest title and that they’d have to buy a new one.
I'm on a group chat with about a dozen people who are super excited for this game to come out. HALF of them just realized last night that they don't have the right consoles to play it because they thought they could just use their 10 year old Xboxes. https://t.co/zyJy3sAtMl
While players of all ages will surely play College Football 25, it already has a reputation as a “dad game,” and those dads haven’t all been keeping up with their hardware. Perhaps the realization that they’ll need an Xbox Series X or S to play the new game will see a small uptick in Microsoft’s console sales just as the company tries to combat that shrinking market by focusing fully on developing more non-exclusive game titles and even game streaming.
