EA responds to next gen

**triplej96** · 12-22-2005, 02:26 AM

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Originally posted by Rodster

And EA chose to release Madden 360 at the tail end of the NFL Season. Truthfully I played all their 360 Sports games this year at my local EB and they are ALL PRETTY AWFUL.

You kidding me NBA 2k6 360 might be the best basketball game ever made!

**CptObvious** · 12-22-2005, 04:38 AM

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Originally posted by triplej96

You kidding me NBA 2k6 360 might be the best basketball game ever made!

Hurrr. 2K6 is 2K Sports NBA Game...confused a bit?

**Rodster** · 12-22-2005, 05:08 AM

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Originally posted by triplej96

You kidding me NBA 2k6 360 might be the best basketball game ever made!

My mistake I meant to say all EA 360 Sports games. I purchased NBA 2K6/360 and it is top notch.

**Graphik** · 12-22-2005, 11:21 AM

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BTW...what happened to all the "business analysts" that praised EA for making such a "brilliant" move in the first place?

**Waits for Obiwan to drop his 2 cents**

**countryboy** · 12-22-2005, 01:20 PM

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lets wait and see how they do with the ps3 and their second efforts on the 360.

most launch titles are not up to par because developers are still learning the console. it happened on the ps2, but then things got better

**Pared** · 12-22-2005, 02:25 PM

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Originally posted by Graphik

**Waits for Obiwan to drop his 2 cents**

LOL C'mon G... no need to call anyone out.

**Graphik** · 12-22-2005, 02:50 PM

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Originally posted by Pared

LOL C'mon G... no need to call anyone out.

Sorry, when I read the end of his post, his name was the first to come to mind.

**triplej96** · 12-23-2005, 04:05 AM

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Originally posted by Rodster

My mistake I meant to say all EA 360 Sports games. I purchased NBA 2K6/360 and it is top notch.

Oh my fault, yeah 2k6 is great.

**Triggerfish** · 12-23-2005, 10:23 AM

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does anyone know the sales figures so far as to how many North American 360's were sold and how many Madden's?

**Rodster** · 12-23-2005, 12:07 PM

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Originally posted by Triggerfish

does anyone know the sales figures so far as to how many North American 360's were sold and how many Madden's?

Microsoft says it's on track to sell 2.5 to 3 million units in 90 days. Based on current demand if they could make 9 million units they would sell them. IOW they have sold as many as they have made so far. The last figures were in the 350k range and that's before the new suppiles which hit stores recently so that figure is probably double already.

re: Madden last sales were around 170k which isn't bad for a not so good game.

Hope that helps

**jmood88** · 12-23-2005, 04:34 PM

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Originally posted by Rodster

Microsoft says it's on track to sell 2.5 to 3 million units in 90 days. Based on current demand if they could make 9 million units they would sell them. IOW they have sold as many as they have made so far. The last figures were in the 350k range and that's before the new suppiles which hit stores recently so that figure is probably double already.

re: Madden last sales were around 170k which isn't bad for a not so good game.

Hope that helps

It's not too bad for a normal game but for ea which spends so much money on marketing and all the money they spent on the nfl license, those numbers are tragic.

**Rodster** · 12-23-2005, 05:28 PM

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Originally posted by jmood88

It's not too bad for a normal game but for ea which spends so much money on marketing and all the money they spent on the nfl license, those numbers are tragic.

True, but it was no different when the PS2 launched in 2000, systems were hard to come by then. Also Madden 2001 fo the PS2 was an overall better game than Madden 360. I know cause i've played both and Madden 2001 was released around Oct 2000 so at least we were in the middle of the Football season, another knock against Madden 360.

But hey EA sold close to 200k copies of Madden 360. Most bundles now include Madden, EA probably knew that system availability was going to be tight going into the launch.

MS's problem was they did not anticpate the 360 was going to be such a hot seller so fast. I guess they underestimated their product.

The bottom line is that Madden 360 is not a very good game cause i'm not a Madden fan and I wanted to buy it. I held back when I saw the game in action. If Madden 360 was a better product the die hard Madden crowd would have been all over it.

EA needs to share the blame as well.

**Triggerfish** · 12-23-2005, 07:51 PM

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"It's not too bad for a normal game but for ea which spends so much money on marketing and all the money they spent on the nfl license, those numbers are tragic."

Not sure about that...there is always a good percentage who do not buy or like sports games.I know a few who bought it just for the driving and action games.It comes down to there really is not enough xbox's sold yet to assume it's selling badly.

**countryboy** · 12-23-2005, 08:33 PM

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How does a company not estimate that a next-gen video game console is going to be a hot item?

They knew that it was going to be a hot seller, thats why they released for the holiday season. The problem is that they didn't have enough consoles to launch especially during the holiday season

as I said before Microsoft wanted to be the first out of the gate and they did that. Now they are looking for any and I mean any scapegoat to get themselves out of a jam.

Microsoft has no competition right now and may not until late next year in the next gen console wars, so they did what they had to do to improve profits for the year, and said piss on the consumers.

Microsoft launch list:
#1 money
#2 customer satisfaction

Merry Christmas

**jmood88** · 12-23-2005, 10:30 PM

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Originally posted by countryboy

How does a company not estimate that a next-gen video game console is going to be a hot item?

They knew that it was going to be a hot seller, thats why they released for the holiday season. The problem is that they didn't have enough consoles to launch especially during the holiday season

as I said before Microsoft wanted to be the first out of the gate and they did that. Now they are looking for any and I mean any scapegoat to get themselves out of a jam.

Microsoft has no competition right now and may not until late next year in the next gen console wars, so they did what they had to do to improve profits for the year, and said piss on the consumers.

Microsoft launch list:
#1 money
#2 customer satisfaction

Merry Christmas

What are you talking about? Who are they trying to blame for not having enough systems made?

EA responds to next gen

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