When Madden 23 releases in a couple of weeks, it will be the 42nd edition of the hit NFL football video game. While it's incredible how long the franchise has been around, fans are complaining about it becoming stale. Madden has made incremental improvements over the last few years, but there haven’t been any drastic advancements in almost a decade. Competitors have come and gone, but none of them have ever been able to compete with Madden’s high level of gameplay and EA’s massive budget.