As a developer and publisher, one of the hardest genres to be associated with in the video game industry has to be sports titles. After all, it’s nothing more than a yearly cry-fest form a good amount of gamers making baseless claims that ultimately always come back to, “I’m not paying $60 for updated rosters.”

Considering this consistent stance, it’s no surprise that Peter Moore often feels the need to defend the genre as a whole and has done so once again on his personal EA Sports blog. Of course, his blog takes issue more with the questioning of whether or not boxing is a dead sport, but the true meat of the blog is definitely aimed towards the uneducated gamer that doesn’t understand what really goes on behind the scenes.

“Sports games are often misguidedly slighted for a lack of creativity,” Moore wrote in a blog post titled, Is Boxing Dead? “Uneducated gamers will cry, ‘You just update the rosters.’ No doubt you’ve heard me vigorously defend the amount of innovation that our Tiburon and EAC studios deliver in our annual titles.

“For all of the ‘haters’ of the Sports genre, I urge you to check out Fight Night Champion to experience the amount of creativity and innovation we’re delivering with this game when it launches on 1st March.”

Obviously, I agree with Moore 100%. Anyone who knows me or has heard my take on sports video gaming would know that I’m one of the few that gets how much work is being put in on the back-end of things for each years installment to hit retail shelving. Thankfully, with the direction being taken by Fight Night Champion, it may finally look as though gamers can get a better understanding of it themselves and not always rely on the roster cliche.

“It’s been more than three decades since Martin Scorcese’s masterpiece Raging Bull helped tell one of the greatest boxing stories of all time, and our development team at EAC is taking cues from some of the great boxing films to create a game experience that captures that type of drama of the sport outside of the ring.

“Why? Because we believe the sport is unique in its timeless ability to be the catalyst for great storytelling, as with so many great films over the years, and because we know this is our opportunity to do something radically new with the Fight Night franchise.”

As mentioned previously, Fight Night Champion is due out March 1st, 2011. Be sure to check it out either by renting it or buying it on day one. It’s definitely looking to be worth the asking price.