Madden Sales Down Significantly This Year

[Dolphins88]

C'mon 2 k make a 2 k15 and end this video game football debacle.. Nfl better let them make it!

[sportzbro]

This is what happens when you put out a mediocre product year after year. Say all you want about " JUST WAITING 4 NEXT GEN!!1!" but there are numerous trade-in deals for the next gen version that you can still get by buying the PS3/360 one first.. I'd say NCAA Football should take note, but who knows what's happening with that mess and it'd probably fall on deaf ears anyway.

[NYBorn81]

If only 2k haven't already come out and said that they have little interest in making another NFL title.

[252Life]

Yeah okay but I bet the Next Gen version will be bare bones like 06 was.

[252Life]

Quote: Originally Posted by NYBorn81

If only 2k haven't already come out and said that they have little interest in making another NFL title.

So 2k is not interested in making anymore football games? Man WTF? Ok then where is 989 Sports or somebody else, please get back into the fold when this license is over lol

[mestevo]

Quote: Originally Posted by 252Life

Yeah okay but I bet the Next Gen version will be bare bones like 06 was.

What are you being exactly because anyone paying attention to next gen would gladly take you up on that.

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[Afrikan]

Quote: Originally Posted by 252Life

So 2k is not interested in making anymore football games? Man WTF? Ok then where is 989 Sports or somebody else, please get back into the fold when this license is over lol

Would love to see a next gen version of this

[Iceman87GT]

Quote: Originally Posted by 252Life

Yeah okay but I bet the Next Gen version will be bare bones like 06 was.

They learned from their mistakes on the current gen in this department. It won't be bare-bones, doesn't mean the game will be good but it will at least be full-featured.

Quote: Originally Posted by 252Life

So 2k is not interested in making anymore football games? Man WTF? Ok then where is 989 Sports or somebody else, please get back into the fold when this license is over lol

Cost a lot of money to get all that stuff together, its gonna have to be a 2 year process, I think 2K will make a run at it but the lawsuit (putting an end to exclusive licensing for EA) was settled last year and the fact that they haven't started the process now means it won't be any time soon. Also 989 Sports hasn't made game since 2006, it was absorbed into SCEA San Diego, there's no way they take focus away from the Show to start what could be a failure.

What amazes me is how many people are automatically attributing this to consumers finally having enough with the product... Really? They've been buying it for years, regardless of quality (and fyi the general public doesn't have as many negative things to say about various sports franchises as the visitors to this site do,), and now that sales are down with the Next Generation of consoles set to debut in 2 months and 13 days your gonna ignore that fact and come to the conclusion that they are finally going to come to their sense?

Sales are down because of the Next Gen anticipation, that's a fact. The only question is how much of that is purely because they are waiting for Next Gen and how much is because they heard bad things about the game and aren't bothering with the current gen in the meantime. Yes there are some who have sworn off the series entirely, but they are the minority.

650,000 people haven't quit the series, there are a lot of reasons to look forward to Madden on the Next Gen and this is influencing people's purchase decision.

And its important to note that 1M in the first week is still extremely good, just down from recent years, this isn't going to hurt EA's bottom-line and it is easily explainable to shareholders that its due to the Next Gen.

You're fooling yourselves if you think this is going to hurt EA, cause the NFL to pull their rights (no one is there to take over, and its no longer legal to grab exclusive rights, the NFL would literally be losing a video game deal for the year if they "rethought their partnership with EA). EA is going to keep making Madden, hopefully someone will step in and create some competition, because even if M25 on the XB1 and PS4 is everything we have been hoping for, it is always better for their to be great incentive to improve upon the last iteration. Without competition things become stagnant, even if they are working to bring you the best game possible (see MLB the Show, still a fantastic game but its review scores are dropping by the year, its hard to improve on perfection, especially when their is no legitimate competition trying to one-up your perfect game).