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Looks like most if not all of EA's online games will be one-to-one console connections, each supporting only one player each.
That may even be true of NASCAR Thunder. How many cars are in a NASCAR race anyways? If Midnight Club and other racing games support at least
4 players online from 4 different consoles, it seems like all racing games should support that as well.
Of course you have games like SOCOM supporting 16 players, IIRC.
Anyone who's played 4-player multitap sports games know that it adds a new dimension to play with someone against a couple of other opponents.
Doesn't work too well for football but it could be different with the recently unveiled NFL Street, which will probably support 4-players offline but probably not online.
But now with voice support, there is no reason you can't have 4 players from 4 different consoles playing in the same game. You could communicate with your virtual teammate with voice and this would really work with basketball, hockey and soccer. Even baseball with multitap worked with Triple Play back in the PSX days. And Tiger Woods, really no reason you can't have virtual foursomes since one player at a time swings or putts while the others wait their tursn.
EA and others are really making a good online push but they need to expand the possibilities. Online sports games are great but they lack the multiplayer online games experience offered by certain PC games that let you use team-play while being a competitive game.
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