Weak Madden Sales Signaling Trouble for Game Industry

[PhillipR24]

Ha at EA's market research. This is so disturbing because it still look like the people that make a football game dont watch football games.

[CS10029]

This is why I didn't get the game this year. Hopefully it forces EA's hand to really make a great game.

[HiTEqMETHOD]

*Crosses fingers in hopes 2k will soon be making an NFL game*

[marshallfever]

Quote: Originally Posted by markprior22

This is the first year I wasn't even the least bit tempted to buy Madden. I am an offline franchise player and the franchise mode is going to need quite an upgrade to pull me back in.

I completely agree with you on this. As much as i enjoy gaming online with other people, i feel like the true beast of past maddens were their franchise mode. It gave us an interesting look and feel to the game. I remember NFL 2K5 very vividly for their weekly preparations. It wasn't the most innovate thing, but it was certainly interesting.

Having a certain time to train certain players and to rehab others so they could come back earlier...it was that sort of thing that gave the game leg to me. Madden after the last generation has fallen off completely when it came to franchise mode. Instead of catering to the mode, they introduced another half baked mode called Super Star mode.

I want some to do in franchise mode again. I want to have mandatory practices where i run over plans with the team for certain game situations, i don't care to much about managing ticket prices but i want to be able to rehab players and work certain players who i think have potential out.

The on the field stuff is moving in the right direction which is a plus but it is still sort of far from perfection. The gang tackling is a joke and thats one of the biggest aspect of football, the team getting together to make tackles.

I'm not surprised at the low sales, until they show something that knocks people off and shows them how different it is from the previous versions, its not going to excite a lot of people.

Quote: Originally Posted by HiTEqMETHOD

*Crosses fingers in hopes 2k will soon be making an NFL game*

As much as i loved 2K5, they've been out of the game too long to make an EXCELLENT football game. I thought All Pro was pretty bland. It did everything 2K5 did but it was dated and didn't feel new or exciting. Then again like it's been mentioned before they only worked on the game for a very limited time, something like 8 months or so.

If they did get back into the game, it would require at LEAST 2 years for them to make a worth while game.

[BDM313]

good news now its time to step it up and pull the hardcore gamers back in EA:-)...

[grunt]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

You summed it all up on the same way I was feeling. I don't know about anywhere else, but there was at least 75 people lined up outside of GS at midnight release. I don't live in a large metropolitan area, either.

Do you think Madden 11 will outsell Madden 10?

[badnews]

This is the perfect storm for us as gamers. Its getting close to time for the NFL exclusivity EA has to expire, and, and Madden is not selling. A lot of people around here for years have been saying the best way to make Madden improve is to not buy the game. Madden 10 was a decent game, the broken tackles were something I couldn't get past, so I stopped playing it around christmas time. Ea realized that most people thought Madden 10 was good, so instead of improving on the advances they made with 10, they bare touched 11. But see, the smart consumer, and the consumer who is dealing with the economy right now, are not going to spend their money on a stale product. This was the first year since the 90's I didn't even consider buying Madden as I am very happy with NCAA 11. I feel its the best football game to have come out on next-gen consoles and I fall more in love with it the more I play it. Madden is a dead franchise to me right now, and until they build a new engine, slash the price of the game by $20, care about making a good game (not just sales), and lose that exclusive deal I will not purchase madden again. I just hope EA doesn't destroy what they have started with NCAA

[rickmitchell22]

This is encouraging news.