[GGEden]

My suggestion to EA would be this...

With new consoles to release in late 2012 to early 2013. Don't make a Madden 13, especially not the typical annual development/release cycle, where they maintain and slap on more bandaids on a tired old engine, update rosters, take some features out, put some ones in, slap it with a new coat of paint.

Instead, come August 2012, just release a patch for M12, with updated rosters, tweak a few things, and let M12 continue to sale. Do this so as to spend the next two years devoted to developing a new Madden for August 2013 for the new consoles. Totally rebuild. Use a new next-gen engine, dynamic/unscripted, real-time physics, and glean every single good suggestion from these OS boards. Just totally re-invent Madden, re-invigorate/innovate. Take that two years time to devote for finally that truly "next-gen" standard game, that's jam-packed with features and game-play focused. Once you have foundation in place with the release of M14 for PS4/720/WiiU, then for M15 focus can be turned towards the leap in graphics/ram/direct-x.

Then EA will get that breakthru, selling 15 million to 20 million games in a year globally. Instead of the 5-6 million.