Madden 09: Make or Break Season

[coogrfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by Slizeezyc

Just FYI, vgchartz is not very reliable. But yes your point is still solid.

Yeah, their exact numbers should be taken with a large grain of salt. They are mainly useful as an indicator of general sales trends.

[pf8363]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cusefan

The more i think about it the more i realize that Madden 09 has to be great for me to continue buying their product. Madden 08 was not nearly as bad as you would think it was by looking at this forum but it was my least favorite madden title of the last 10 years, easy. I remember a time when madden, Nhl, and NBA live were all amazing titles, hopefully EA can get back to their roots...

while madden and nba live are dreadful, i think the nhl series is at its best. it got my vote for sports game of the year

[jsou4646]

2k5 is still the best game out there

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by ExtremeGamer

We'll all be hyped into 09 after the NFL Draft in April and the game will be one of the most anticipated game on the boards from now until release, book it.

You know what? I can't help but point to the boards being a determining factor on whether or not they purchase the game here. Am I stating the obvious? Maybe, but there's a reason why I bring this point up.

What good is it "waiting until some get the game here" when most of the people who get the game early are typically the ones who enjoy it regardless?

Some of the early impressions from people here were the game was FANTASTIC! AMAZING! WOW, SO MUCH BETTER THAN LAST YEAR!

.....ok? The minute someone who gets the game and says otherwise they're called a troll or some other stupid name. From all the hype everyone generates on the boards early on, how can anyone expect the game to exceed/fail those expectations? There isn't any balance or level headed impressions early on...

Eh, I guess I'm just ranting now. The game has promise but the attention to details is something the Madden series just doesn't have. Love the Browns unis last year... makes you wonder if these guys are NFL football fans, or just video game fans.

[yvesdereuter]

Even if the sales are sagging only because of a reduction in current gen, it still has to be a concern. It means people arent converting to next gen and games like Madden lacking quality might be one of the reasons.

And actually, I think the drop off in sales that the Wall Street Journal reported was for year end March 2007...so it would have been the year before, not this past year. Maybe Im wrong on that. In any case, a sad irony in all this is that if you kill the competition, you have to be careful of that all the air doesnt leave the balloon. When you have more competition you have more people keeping the balloon full of air and so if one company slacks off, the overall things are buoyed by having someone else. EA needs to be careful.

The game sucked in so many ways. Its sad to see people try to pinpoint the biggest problem, there were so many and the game is different things to different people. If they just focus on one thing, you have no reason to think something else wont be sacrificed. The game really is at a similar point to where Triple Play was at before they switched over to MVP.

Another irony is that when they market or hype the game as they did last year (it seemed like the release was mentioned all over the place), you get the attention of a lot of people but when the game is a disaster, eveyone knows it. EA needs to stop letting their marketing department run things.

[STLRams]

The last few Maddens including 08 were not good sim football games, period. This exclusive crap stinks. I will rent Madden 09 first before I buy it. I haven't bought a Madden game since 05, I've just rented them first to test them out. What was the point of getting this exlusive NFL contract, and EA having access to all the NFL footage and info and things like that, and they don't use this stuff to its potential in there games. Improve the TV broadcast, nobody likes that damn radio annoucer, improve the gameplay, make it a sim football game, fix the bugs, make the game realistic EA. If you think about it thought, why should they? There the only NFL game out, the madden droids will still buy the game no matter what, espically when EA start releasing those Madden 09 hype commericals and those Madden previews from IGN,Gamespot, etc and say like they always do every year - this is gonna be the best Madden ever, they have really improved, yeah right. Guys don't believe the hype. I really hope Madden 09 is better, but I have to rent it first, I can't be a Madden droid and buy it day one.

[The Bimmer]

As of right this minute, I aint buyin' until they start supplin' some presentation, gamplay, etc......

[gr18]

I think Madden 08 for the 360 was very good minus the sim stat probs that Madden games have had.Granted this year was a little worse.Also,obviously the turnover issues and bugs shouldn't have been there.Testing goes a long way.Especially when some tweaking was evident after playing a game or two.