Re: wow! Tiger Woods / EA Sports Disc Golf!

Posted by avm0807 on 4/24/09 13:30

pdga is behind the otherone with some small time developer....its gonna be a wii-ware game... downloadable. but my understanding is will feature REAL disc golf courses.

gobble them up....they will. these guys are small potatoes....they dream of cashing in like this. the ones that do it for love of the game...will still do it...its the spirit of this sport... they will just do it in style...

as far as just because major sports manufacturer X now being interested in disc golf.....translating to $30 discs.... ummm... i dont understand. the margin that these companies can achieve on plastic is due to supply / demand of oil (plastics main component), production effeciencies (trust me....if walmart is carrying your merchandise...they change how you run your business), distribution channels (a company like Nike already has the logistics hurdles that even Innova runs into cleared by a MILE)....

the way i see it.... it may mean cheaper discs...in better plastic. there may even be a market for higher end discs (but that will be a market similar to the collectible limited runs). the technology of flying discs (within the standards of the pdga)....is hitting a wall.

what i do know is already happening.... is that this simple little inclusion of frisbees in a ball golf video game....immediatly legitimized the sport in several of my collegue's eyes. i handed out discs to a half a dozen or so people at work in two days...

who the f knows... ...its gonna be interesting