Request to change the SCEE and FOA exclusive rights contract

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Formula One Administration (FOA) has granted Sony Computer Entertaniment Europe (SCEE) exclusive rights so that the Formula One (F1) franchise will be exclusive to SCEE and Sony Playstation 2 for the next 4 years, or until 2007. Because of agreement between FOA and SCEE F1 titles by developers such as Geoff Crammond (Grand Prix Series) and EA Sports (EA Sports F1 Series) are no longer being created. The issue at hand is that SCEE only publishes titles for Sony made consoles, like the Sony Playstation 2, but nothing else. Therefore until the year 2007, if this agreement holds up, there will be no F1 racing games on the Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo GameBoy Advance, Microsoft X-Box or PC. I think from a Formula 1 marketing and a racing simulation community point of view that this 4 year exclusive agreement was a really poor decision and needs to be re-considered. I think a compromise should be made by SCEE since they are only going to make F1 games for the Sony Playstation 2 and future Sony video gaming consoles. If SCEE wishes to have exclusive rights to Formula 1 titles it should be only for the Sony Consoles which they are making their titles for and it should not effect any consoles that they do not market their products towards. This would allow companies such as Microprose and EA Sports to continue their respective Formula 1 series but only on non-Sony platforms.

Another reason I am fighting for this change, with this decision lots of members in the the simulation racing community are disapointed that until 2007, or a compromise is made by SCEE, there will be no Formula 1 titles for PC, which is the home of the simulation racer. Another reason I am fighting for this change is because for Nintendo GameBoy Advance there is currently a revolutionary Formula 1 title (Prograph Research's GP Advance, the first GBA racing game featuring a brand new full 3D graphics engine with output compariable to a Sony PSOne; http://www.prograph.it/gpadvance/gpadvance.htm) sitting on the shelves waiting for a publisher to pick it up and distrubute the game around the world. The reason this game is not geting picked up is because all potential publishers know they will not beable to get the offical FOA licencing for this title.

We the undersigned support the idea that SCEE should re-negotiate it's exclusive rights contract with the FOA so atleast Formula 1 video games can be made for platforms that the SCEE will not be marketing their Formula 1 titles for.

965 Signatures

  • Philip Pack
    • Country
    • Canada
  • Dennis Stam (gba.n64europe.com)
    • Comments
    • Another promising game destined to die, because a company bought the right and doesn't want to exploit them?!
    • Country
    • Netherlands
  • Hugo Smits
    • Comments
    • Please release the damn game!
    • Country
    • The Netherlands
  • Rick Stevenhaagen
    • Comments
    • If this game will hit the stores, wow! I think this is gonna be a superb game!
    • Country
    • The Netherlands
  • micheal
  • Jeroen van Heijster
    • Comments
    • I love GP Advance F1 racing titles ! please dont cancel it!!!
    • Country
    • Netherlands
  • Lesley Koppenol
    • Country
    • Netherlands
  • martin
    • Country
    • Netherlands (holland)
  • Jeroen Van de Wiele
    • Comments
    • Looks great, do not cancel!
    • Country
    • Belgium
  • Jelle Wijnhoud
    • Comments
    • We want that game!!!
    • Country
    • Netherland
  • frederik lantsoght
    • Comments
    • this game must come out!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Country
    • belgium
  • Bobinho
  • Martijn Houwen
  • Perry van de Wiel
    • Country
    • NL
  • marc
    • Comments
    • THIS MAY NOT HAPPEN!please do not do this to me!
    • Country
    • Netherlands
  • Renzo
    • Country
    • nederland
  • Jenswa
    • Comments
    • Yes, what can i say, licensing, almost as nasty as patents.
    • Country
    • Holland
  • Jeroen Flierman
    • Country
    • The Netherlands
  • Francis du Mortier
    • Country
    • Netherlands
  • chris elrick
    • Comments
    • Plz let us have it
    • Country
    • Scotlnd
  • Niels Keetels
    • Comments
    • No way you can cancel a highly anticipated GBA title like this!
    • Country
    • The Netherlands
  • Pieter Runneboom
    • Comments
    • Why should you cancel this beautiful game?? I will buy it when it's released
    • Country
    • Netherlands
  • victor
    • Comments
    • go f 1
    • Country
    • canada
  • Marco van Bokhoven
    • Country
    • Netherlands
  • Rudolf Priecinsky
    • Comments
    • i consider agreement a misuse of position by the FOA and step against fans of F1
    • Country
    • Slovakia
  • Alex van den Hoogen
    • Comments
    • Please Launch this GAME !!!!! Love F1..
    • Country
    • the Netherlands
  • Robbert Dijkstra
    • Comments
    • If they cancel this game, i'm going to be SICK!
    • Country
    • The Netherlands
  • Albert
    • Country
    • the Netherlands
  • Niels van de Burgt
    • Country
    • The Netherlands
  • DragonZzZ
    • Country
    • Netherlands
  • jeroen diks
    • Comments
    • Don`t cancel it!
    • Country
    • Netherlands
  • Mark Timmermans
    • Comments
    • KEEP THIS GAME ALIVE!!
    • Country
    • The Netherlands
  • jeroen bruijn
  • Bas Goyarts
    • Country
    • Netherlands, the
  • yann de mey
  • Robbie Hagen
    • Comments
    • Let games come out on every platform! Laat games op elke platform uitkomen! dit is zielig mensen
    • Country
    • Hilversum
  • Hendrik
  • Mark Frankenheimer
  • Dactari
    • Comments
    • A bas les exclus
    • Country
    • France
  • CrazyRudy
  • Yoshi
    • Comments
    • This deal from Sony is completely unfair! 3 players out of 4 won't see any Formula1 videogame anymore, if it does. I want to see F1 games on all platforms!
    • Country
    • France
  • Pepijn Zuidema
    • Comments
    • DO NOT CANCEL THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Country
    • The Netherlands
  • Gustaf Ericson
    • Comments
    • Best game ever!!!
    • Country
    • Sweden
  • gbaking
    • Comments
    • if you cancel this game, i will burn my gba, en never buy an other
  • STAHL
    • Country
    • France
  • mastertop
  • De Smedt David
    • Country
    • Belgium
  • Selkirk
  • Ryan Miller
  • Ivan
    • Comments
    • Sony's really annoying with "if cannot compete with it, buy it" politic. On the other hand, I'm totally unsatisfactory with their products - my home doesn't have a single Sony device now. Never regreted it ever since.
    • Country
    • Serbia