Has EA Season Ticket hurt sales?

[mrprice33]

Quote: Originally Posted by footballfan41

OMG'!!!! nice to try the game n see if you like it???? What a joke..first I hate season pass...how would all fill if every company have a want to be season pass type idea for there games...we gives $75 for a game now...and to pay $25 dollars to rent a game for three days???? Every1 cryed bout blockbuster price to rent a game n it close there doors cause of it...and now we paying $25 dollars to try a game holly cow....

I guess I know why your name isn't "Englishfan41."

[mrclutch]

So were the sales down much thus year? I haven't seen EA's numbers.

I saw some sales numbers for The Show and they were down a fair amount this year. Clearly no Season Ticket or quality issues at play. Assuming EA's sales are down I would blame the big hitting non sports games. MW3, Skyrim, Batman and the like keep getting bigger and I would guess taking more of the gaming pie. This was the year where I played more non sports games compared to sports games for the first time in forever. I still bought all the main sports games but they have collected some serious dust this year. If folks have a tight gaming budget I could see them spending their money on the non sport blockbuster vs. the "next year" version on a sports title.