First, our headline writer wants to apologize to any native Spanish speakers for the headline. That said, GameDaily BIZ reports that EA is going to release Madden NFL '08 en Espanol this holiday season, "a new version of the popular Madden 08 game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 that's fully translated into Spanish." But it's not just a simple translation: They're replacing cover athlete Vince Young with Luis Castillo, defensive end for the San Diego Chargers and a native of the Dominican Republic; adding three exclusive music tracks from Spanish-language acts; and "Alvaro Martin, the first Spanish language announcer for ABC Sports' Monday Night Football, will voice the play-by-play broadcasts."
This isn't just EA looking to attract new players and boost its already healthy profit stream. The NFL has been reaching out to Spanish-speaking fans as well, dovetailing neatly with EA's latest Madden venture. If it proves successful, we imagine this won't be the last Spanish language sports release we see from the kids at EA.
Era "a propĂłsito" siempre creĂ que era “apropĂłsito” nadie me habĂa corregido hasta ahora de hecho mi corrector de gramática dice que estoy bien.
Es lo malo de estudiar 4 idiomas, termino hablando cada uno de ellos pobremente pero lo bueno es que ahora estoy seguro de que mi teclado es chatarra.
A Word: Pues ahi la llevas. Yo se un poco de aleman como mi tercer idioma, Und als Sie sehen können, Ich lerne es ziemlich gut, aunque es un poco dificil de pronunciar.
A Fernando: Soy de Baja California. Donde vivo ya anda empezando a hacer un poquito de frio, pero no me molesta tanto.
Is this a release in the United States? Or is it a release in another country?
If it's a release in the US, I think they should be fair about it and release one in each language for every nationality that lives here!
I really don't see why it's so hard to just keep it with each country's primary language. I know of alot of people with different nationalities who are disgusted with how US Companies cater to hispanics in this country (legal or illegal) and make them ('other' immigrants) learn to speak and write english just to become US citizens.
At first I didn't really notice it so much, but now that this happened, I can kinda see what they are talking about now. It really is shameful. To be fair, it should be english in this country or make one for every language that is spoken in this country.
When another language is used by a group of people large enough to make money off of, that will happen. As of the 2000 census, Spanish was the second most used language in the country with about 20 million speakers. 3rd place is "Chinese" because they don't differentiate between the mutually unintelligible Mandarin and Cantonese. Either way, grouping together both Chinese languages is still only 2 million speakers. Lower than that is French, then German, then Tagalog, then everything else. Let's say you're EA. In the country where this sport is popular, there are 20 million people speaking 1 language and 2 million people speaking 2 completely different languages (with a shared writing system). Who gets their own version?
Actually I don't see why a Multilanguage version Spanish and English isn’t possible like in Europe, Sony games in Europe are Multilanguage anyone living there can tell you, I know because I bought some games back in Germany.
Now I have seen more games in Spanish for example my version of Legend of Zelda: Phantom hourglass is in Spanish, I don’t know if it’s the Euro version or the Latin America version but is neat, maybe companies see a potential market in Latin America.
I was going to say the same. I bought Phantom Hourglass in the past thuesday, and oh, what wwas my surprise? It was in spanish! I mean... in a tiny card they put several languages. At least they can include a full text translation since the beggining and not release a separate version.
By the way... Captain Linebeck, character of the year.
"As of the 2000 census, Spanish was the second most used language in the country with about 20 million speakers."
And why is it that 20 million immigrants from spanish speaking countries (95% of which I'm sure are from mexico and the caribean) can't speak english? When my grandfather immigrated here from Poland after WW2, he didn't speak a word of english, and neither did his wife or 3 children. And they made the effort to learn the english language and assimilate into the American culture. You don't see that happening very much anymore. What you see now is demands that things be done like in mexico, and that restaurants have their menu's in both languages.
Couple that with the Mexican president making statements along the lines of "Everywhere there are mexicans is Mexico" and insisting that Mexicans be loyal to mexico no matter where they live, you can understand why there's a healthy number of people in this country concerned about illegal immigration and the growth of spanish speaking communities.
I second that, I'm in the Navy, and every time I go overseasI have to pick up some words in the language of our host nation. When I was in south america, no one put anything in english for me. Same thing with europe.
In fact, the reason I don't know how to speak italian or german is my grandparents refused to let the kids speak it around the house so they'd be forced to use english to be productive citizens.
@crono i know a very successful polish man who doesnt know a word of english and has been in chicago some 30 years.same goes for chinese,filipino and hispanic parents in chicago that i know personally.you dont need to learn english if the place you work and live is the same neighborhood and they all speak your language.all the kids of these parents speak both languages though thats how i knew them XD.chicago rules if you move to your language pocket and dont know english.also chicago has polish,chinese,and spanish tv channels =)
I know exactly what you're talking about Truepatriot, and it is for that reason that my grandparents settled in a polish community in chicago. But its one thing if its an isolated pocket, and the children are growing up being integrated into american society, but for much of the 20 million spanish speaking immigrants, their communities take up large parts of some cities (like miami), and they make no effort to assimilate into american culture or values.
Correction: about 97% of the country speaks English at any given time, with the 3% that can't either being very very new immigrants or really old people who have their kids and grandkids translate for them while they learn. As they learn English they are replaced by new non-English speaking immigrants. The reason we see a lot of stuff in Spanish is because they are BILINGUAL. Speaking Spanish does not mean one can not speak English.
As long as everything that comes out of Hollywood and MTV is in English, people will be learning English. They WANT to assimilate, and they do.
I discovered post-it notes provided better contrast than my skin did, to really let my moneymaker shine. Now I just need to learn how to make a W out of the damn thing.
what for? american football isn't popular at all in spanish speaking countries... Exhibit A: me, i don't even know the rules of the damn game :P maybe it will sell a little in mexico, there is a following of the sport in there.
Um, they already released versions of Fifa Soccer with multiple languages in the past. I remember seeing several versions with "El Perro" BermĂşdez (a famous Mexican Soccer narrator) in the game.
It's not that I consider this a bad thing - but is it really necessary to release ANOTHER version of the game? Hell, they should just add the damn language to the DVD, it's not like they don't have enough space for menu graphics and displays!
those "latinos" maybe have bought the english ver already, i doubt they'd buy it again. and about that multiple language on fifa, well, thats difference, real football is a worldwide thing, from japan, to latin america
To Tavo: Actually, FIFA games are way more popular here in Mexico than Madden games actually are, and no matter how repetitive the FIFA games are, they still play them. Hell, I even have some friends that every month make a tournament with cash for the winner, but since I don't know how to play FIFA games (well, just a little) I don't participate in them.
The only soccer game that I like to play now and ever is ISSS for the SNES. Now that soccer game was fun to play!
La falta de acentos en las firmas anteriores hace sentirME anonadado ante el hecho de que no se trata solamente de ignorancia, sino de flojera por parte de los hispanohablantes nativos por fomentar la lengua madre.
Tienes razon, pero el teclado que estoy usando tiene las teclas con la configuracion en ingles, asi que no tengo la tecla para poner acentos rapidamente.
Ni siquiera tiene la letra "ñ"... tengo que teclear Alt+164
