EA Sports' President Peter Moore announced yesterday during a financial conference call that Grand Slam Tennis for the next-gen consoles will be "delayed indefinitely," according to an IGN report.

EA Sports officially stated the following::

"We're pleased with the product quality and sales for Grand Slam Tennis on Wii and it's been obvious to us that the sport of tennis is best captured in a videogame when leveraging motion control and we are moving development resources from our tennis team to our EA Sports Active franchise. We believe this is a good swap and expect this decision to yield positive results."

All you next-gen tennis fans are stuck with Virtua Tennis 2009, not that that's a terrible thing. I have to say myself that I don't buy what EA Sports is selling us, tennis games don't necessarily need motion control to be fun and many of us prefer the next-gen consoles over the Wii because of the level of presentation that only they can provide. In any case, don't expect to see Grand Slam Tennis on a 360 or PS3 any time soon, if ever.

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Throughout the years I've had a love/hate relationship with tennis games. From the original Virtua Tennis on dreamcast to Topspin 3 and Virtua Tennis 3 on Xbox 360. All of these games have tried to bring tennis onto the couches of many homes, but, currently, they've all fallen short to Wii Sports Tennis.

It seems that the tennis game is attempting to come back with a fury on both Wii and other next gen consoles. And, after playing Topspin 3's failure at making a simulation tennis game, I'd welcome almost anything playable.

More after the jump.

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The cover of the much anticipated Wii Motion Plus title Grand Slam Tennis was released today. It's graced by Roger Federer, John McEnroe and his afro, and Serena Williams on the grass court of Wimbledon. It's nice to see the Hall of Famer, John McEnroe, get front and center on the title.

Other screenshots released today show the Melbourne Australian Open and New York US Open courts. Those courts aren't really new to the video games, but an exclusive Wimbledon court is great. Most games would have a mock Wimbledon grass court somewhere near England like Top Spin 3's "Championship in Dublin, Ireland". Those additional screenshots can be seen in the gallery below.

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Johnny Mac says "C'mon! Hit the jump!"Yesterday, EA Sports released some B-Roll footage of Grand Slam tennis gameplay and, I must say, it looks promising.

For those of you who are tennis fans, after watching the footage, you'll notice that they have managed to capture some of the distinct traits each player is known for. Two good examples would be John McEnroe's unique service motion and Sharapova's unmistakable "dove dying in the wind" groans.

As a tennis player, I'm excited to play this game to see if the Motion Plus system will really live up to the hype. Despite an earlier report from OMGNintendo that Motion Plus is sometimes "overly responsive", I don't really think there's much to worry about. Besides, if the people asked for better response to motion then complain about it, they can play these games without the Motion Plus addition.

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