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Originally Posted by Ramzavail
I think it is impossible for FOF or OOTP to ever sell as much as CM did or can.
FOF, OOTP have to compete against EA, Sony, Microsoft with their console games.
CM had to compete with nobody (at least nobody important) in the early 90s - They were the only football/soccer game in the industry back then. Theyve only had competition recently with EA and Konami.
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I disagree.
I have to admit that what got me into the text sim genre was Fantasy Football, which I played for years. But I got tired of leagues where the owners dropped out, leagues where owners just kind of packed it when their team started the season 1-7, tired of not being able to keep my team together more than 2 or 3 years before a league folded.
To me the allure of FOF was to take a team, season after season, and try to keep it at or near the top of the league, and win the occasional title. Not every gamer wants eye candy, and there are an awful lot of rotogeeks in this world who could easily be sold on a good text sim, since rotisserie is little more than that at its face value.
I'm curious how well Baseball Mogul sells these days. I see copies of the latest version each year every time I walk into the local Wal-Mart. Granted, it's watered down compared to OOTP, but the fact that one can walk into the largest retailer in the world and pluck a copy off the shelf at $19.95 has to mean something, and its sold by a third tier publisher.
I think a FOF type game, with a slick interface, and sold through one of the bigger publishers (even as a bargain title), could potentially draw a large audience. Madden large, as in several million copies in the first month? Maybe not, but with the right interface, a slick box, some marketing dollars, I could see such a game selling half a million. Maybe more, if it spread by word of mouth.