Madden Sales Down Significantly This Year

[kjcheezhead]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

Agree with #2 and 4, but the article you put up states the higher metacritic score of 81 this year, so, not sure why you stated a lot of the reviews have been lower. You could alsos say a lot of the reviews have been higher, too. I think the power of the holidays will help out. Heck, our son and his roomie in colleg have Madden 25 and they are popular with lines outside their door, with people claiming, "next game." People will start going home and telling mom and dad, I want Madden. I will be interesting to see what happens with the liscense.

The article did score it 81. IGN did give it an 8.5. However, OS gave it 7.5, again Gamespot gave it a 6 and Kotaku simply asks "Should you play this game?" with NO in a huge red square. http://kotaku.com/madden-nfl-25-the-...iew-1207512756

Not sure why you would disagree with #3. It's no secret the exclusive is in its last year. Football fans that want variety do have more incentive to skip. This combined with another typical madden title might have kept $60 in a few gamers pockets.

One other factor. GTA V. If forced to choose, I think a lot of gamers are passing on Madden 25 for that title.

[ghettogeeksta]

Quote: Originally Posted by kjcheezhead

The article did score it 81. IGN did give it an 8.5. However, OS gave it 7.5, again Gamespot gave it a 6 and Kotaku simply asks "Should you play this game?" with NO in a huge red square. http://kotaku.com/madden-nfl-25-the-...iew-1207512756 Not sure why you would disagree with #3. It's no secret the exclusive is in its last year. Football fans that want variety do have more incentive to skip. This combined with another typical madden title might have kept $60 in a few gamers pockets. One other factor. GTA V. If forced to choose, I think a lot of gamers are passing on Madden 25 for that title.

Yep Im passing on current gen Madden 25 for GTA V! No way I spend $60 on this game when GTA V is coming out in a couple weeks & next-gen Madden 25 in a couple of months (mind you I have't bought Madden since Madden 10) . Ill be lost in that game til next-gen Madden info drops.

[GiantBlue76]

It's amazing how people continuously make excuses for this game. I just don't understand it. There is always some reason OTHER than the quality that people WANT to believe leads to things like this. The fact is Madden is a cultural icon. Whether the new systems are coming out or not should not matter. People don't want to wait 4 months for that. If Madden was a great game, they would still sell just as many, if not more copies, REGARDLESS of whether next gen was coming out or not.

Just watch - the NBA 2k sales will probably still be very good. Not as many people are upgrading to the new consoles yet.

Very few of the guys on my full friends list are getting a next gen system this year. However, a lot of them are gone now from Madden. They gave up on it and simply don't buy it anymore because it "sucked" (according to them). Tiburon is reaping what they sew here. You can only poop in a box for so long before people start to lose interest and find it elsewhere.

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by kjcheezhead

The article did score it 81. IGN did give it an 8.5. However, OS gave it 7.5, again Gamespot gave it a 6 and Kotaku simply asks "Should you play this game?" with NO in a huge red square. http://kotaku.com/madden-nfl-25-the-...iew-1207512756 Not sure why you would disagree with #3. It's no secret the exclusive is in its last year. Football fans that want variety do have more incentive to skip. This combined with another typical madden title might have kept $60 in a few gamers pockets. One other factor. GTA V. If forced to choose, I think a lot of gamers are passing on Madden 25 for that title.

Had them swithched around. # 3 agreed, #4 disagreed.

Could be GTA. Asked my son, he said he doesn't want it. We'll see if others pick it up in his dorm and he comes crawling back.

[SmashMan]

Quote: Originally Posted by GiantBlue76

It's amazing how people continuously make excuses for this game. I just don't understand it. There is always some reason OTHER than the quality that people WANT to believe leads to things like this.

Are people saying there are reasons OTHER than quality, or reasons in addition to quality?

[ksolo12]

Quote: Originally Posted by Radja

you don't have to wait until the next gen to see if this drop is because of next gen or people are sick of. wait until nba 2k14 and fifa 14 come out. if they are down also, it was next gen. if not, then people are sick of madden.

Great point made here.....gonna be interesting to see the FIFA & 2K14 numbers.

[GiantBlue76]

Quote: Originally Posted by SmashMan

Are people saying there are reasons OTHER than quality, or reasons in addition to quality?

Sounds more like OTHER to me. There is no other reason, period. Instead, there is always excuses. That is exactly what has contributed to the mess we got this generation.

Everyone wants Madden to be great, so in order to convince themselves that it is better than it actually is, they will do everything they can to rationalize why they think it's a good game.

[Brooke2011]

It will come down to next gen sales of madden. If those are lower than expected, then EA will up thier game to attract more sales.
The 2 games that are going to blow people's minds this year are next gen nba 2k and ea's live. The completion is going to push those two to give you the "best" game possible.