Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Than 17 Million Games Played in The Yard

[JayhawkerStL]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Tha

All EA & NFL cares about unfortunately, sales numbers. All the casual gamers(those who play MUT and now The Yard)who don't watch NFL or know very little about the NFL buy the game every year not realizing the damage they are doing.

If MUT and Yard can't tell you who the QB of the Patriots was BEFORE Tom Brady, they can't buy Madden until they learn some NFL history lol. Or you define sales numbers by casual and true fans. If your true fans sales are low, then something is wrong lol

If only I appreciated football as much as you, then I could play. But alas, I like MUT and The Yard. Does my time playing Action PC Football or FBpro count still?

Would love to know how someone that seems to care so much about sim and franchise ever considered Madden worth their time enough to consider it worth complaining about?

That is, if I rate as worthy of even asking you a question.

[CujoMatty]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Tha

All EA & NFL cares about unfortunately, sales numbers. All the casual gamers(those who play MUT and now The Yard)who don't watch NFL or know very little about the NFL buy the game every year not realizing the damage they are doing.

If MUT and Yard can't tell you who the QB of the Patriots was BEFORE Tom Brady, they can't buy Madden until they learn some NFL history lol. Or you define sales numbers by casual and true fans. If your true fans sales are low, then something is wrong lol

"the damage they are doing."
That's a bit dramatic lol

[Jkpress]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Tha

Video game sales in general have gone up since Covid if you google it you will see it. What Madden has done is no surprise to me. PR move? Maybe. Their facts seem to be misleading into fooling people into thinking the game is better than it is based on "sales" alone. They will always have their sales and for that, mission accomplished. Sales is the bottom line for EA and others.
I hope Madden does improve but the yard isn't enough nor minor gameplay improvements to justify getting this year's edition. I will wait and see what future improvements actually happen, based on what is done not what is said.

[CujoMatty]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Tha

I think the NFL believes they are helping EA's brand. I would suspect fans of the NFL seek out Madden rather than fans of Madden seeking out the NFL.

This is a genuine question
Why arent more people mad at the NFL?

The part I get is that its ultimately EAs fault for the finished product and while the outrage can be a bit over the top I can comprehend why we are where we are.

The part that kinda throws me is how a lot of people are seemingly mad at EA for the exclusive license. It almost always seems the anger is aimed at EA. Honestly you can think EA is a crappy company but I'd argue from a business standpoint that they'd be crappier if they didnt try for exclusivity. It was up to the NFL to agree to it.

The NFL giving exclusivity honestly bugs me more. I dont feel the least bit confident that any company has enough incentive to try their hardest in an exclusive situation. Hell, even athletes are better during contract years lol.

[jahickory]

Re: Week One Madden Sales up 20% vs. Last Year.

The bigger (and much more important) number...player engagement is up 49%.

That means players are playing more - sure the dynamics of 2020 add to it; but they're doing a lot of the right things to keep players interested (for now).

IIRC, there were over 700K online franchises on just PS4 (as of a couple of days ago). That's a lot of folks playing Madden CFM....

But, how many of them are still active or were active long? I mean, I've set up 25? myself after fooling around with settings and what not. That number could be misleading.



It's all moot anyway. It's always all about the money.

[Aestis]

Re: Week One Madden Sales up 20% vs. Last Year.

But, how many of them are still active or were active long? I mean, I've set up 25? myself after fooling around with settings and what not. That number could be misleading.



It's all moot anyway. It's always all about the money.

That happens every year, though, so it should be a valuable comparative number even if the raw # is not a perfect representation of franchise engagement.

[Quentin32]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Tha

I know my hate for madden run deep. I refuse to believe this. So i look at dates of madden 20 & 21 debuts. Madden 20 was released Friday aug 2 and 21 was released on a Monday aug 28th. So yeah that increase sounds about right being 21 had more days at retail than 20 during the week

[JayhawkerStL]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Tha

I know my hate for madden run deep. I refuse to believe this. So i look at dates of madden 20 & 21 debuts. Madden 20 was released Friday aug 2 and 21 was released on a Monday aug 28th. So yeah that increase sounds about right being 21 had more days at retail than 20 during the week

They said first week of sales, not Aug sales. But thanks for playing.

[Quentin32]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Tha

They said first week of sales, not Aug sales. But thanks for playing.

U don’t get it. I never said month. EA didn’t say 7 days. They said week.
Madden 20 was on sale from fri-Sunday last year (3days)

Madden 21 was on sale from mon-Sunday (6days)

[RogerDodger]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Tha

U don’t get it. I never said month. EA didn’t say 7 days. They said week.
Madden 20 was on sale from fri-Sunday last year (3days)

Madden 21 was on sale from mon-Sunday (6days)

It doesn't matter either way because the "sell-through" figure is calculated against the number of copies that EA sends to retailers, and given we don't know what that was last year OR this year (and they could be considerably different) it's an erroneous comparison.

[Aestis]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Tha

U don’t get it. I never said month. EA didn’t say 7 days. They said week.
Madden 20 was on sale from fri-Sunday last year (3days)

Madden 21 was on sale from mon-Sunday (6days)

A strong lesson in confirmation bias right here.

[StonewallTexan]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sees Strong First Week Unit Sales up Nearly 20 Percent Year-Over-Ye

Is this the thread where I get to say M21 is the best gameplay I've experienced in the series to date? Not sure if that's allowed yet.

You think it better than the modded (say SABO mod) M20 on PC?

[Quentin32]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Tha

A strong lesson in confirmation bias right here.

It’s not

If any game has more days on sale than the other it will sell more.

Madden 21 sold 20% better because it had more days on sale it’s first week than 20

[glenwillett]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Tha

Seeing EA touting sell-through after seeing them spend most of the week trying to give copies away either directly, or through their social media influencers is hilarious.

I work in corporate retail too during these trying times and can appreciate the mathematical gymnastics by the demand planning/public relations teams to try and grab onto something shiny to publish.

[glenwillett]

Re: Madden NFL 21 Sales Improve 20 Percent Year-Over-Year in its First Week, More Tha

I bet digital sales are up

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I don't... Otherwise, that would have led off the PR instead of "X hours of more playtime this year!".