Live 19 gets Madden producer

There has been lots of talk of Madden and Live 19 and an interesting tidbit today:

Here’s where it gets interesting. Polygon sat down with former Madden executive producer Seann Graddy and senior producer Carlos Guerrero, who took the reins of NBA Live 19 development this offseason. It’s here we learn Live is getting Madden‘s Real Player Motion tech, a move that could move the series up a notch as 2K looks to refine what’s currently working. This is exciting for fans because competition is only going to make both games better. Really good video game basketball is on the horizon.

We've been talking about the change in EP and some other news in recent episodes of the Podcast:

Episode #249
Episode #250

/cheap plug

I've been meaning to post some of the articles here in the Forum. A couple of noteworthy ones:

Game Informer: New Madden & NBA Live Leadership Commit To Gameplay, Live Services
Polygon: Madden and NBA Live’s new leadership talk about their roads ahead

Prioritising gameplay is obviously welcome news, and if they're sharing tech, it should hopefully mean further improvement for NBA Live's animations and motion systems. I'm also glad to hear that all the modes are going to be receiving some attention. Gameplay is paramount and needs to keep improving, but the modes need to keep us hooked.

Didn't EA try this before during the first time Live got canceled? Where the development of Live was given to a Madden team/producer?

NHL, from memory. Also, it came with a drastic change in course, which isn't the case this time.