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They needed something that people would actually buy (which is entirely about the looks of the game).
Only 50,000 ID 2004 copies have sold. I believe ID 2002 sold 300,000+, while ID 2003 sold 170,000 (a few weeks back, there was a thread at the Gaming-Age forum that had lifetime-to-date figures for each, but GA switched to a new server, obliterating that... the exact numbers are out there floating around, though).
The game is now selling well below the number generally accepted to be profitable, even as the Xbox userbase has increased substantially. Releasing an Inside Drive 2005 on the current Xbox, unfortunately, would just be throwing good money after bad.
So MS realizes they need their sports games to look as good as, or better than, the competition. With Xbox 2 just around the corner, they decided to just focus on that instead and have a fresh start for all their series.
They needed something that people would actually buy (which is entirely about the looks of the game).
Only 50,000 ID 2004 copies have sold. I believe ID 2002 sold 300,000+, while ID 2003 sold 170,000 (a few weeks back, there was a thread at the Gaming-Age forum that had lifetime-to-date figures for each, but GA switched to a new server, obliterating that... the exact numbers are out there floating around, though).
The game is now selling well below the number generally accepted to be profitable, even as the Xbox userbase has increased substantially. Releasing an Inside Drive 2005 on the current Xbox, unfortunately, would just be throwing good money after bad.
So MS realizes they need their sports games to look as good as, or better than, the competition. With Xbox 2 just around the corner, they decided to just focus on that instead and have a fresh start for all their series.
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