[TDenverFan]

Quote: Originally Posted by chia51

This. NCAA got sales due to the casual football gamer not knowing if the NFL would be here this year. NCAA garnered some of Maddens numbers due to all of the lockout talk for the past 'forever' now. Sure 'we' knew that Madden was still releasing later, but for Joe Blow 6 year old, they may not have and they wanted a football game and they purchased NCAA. That's how I see it.

I doubt this helped too much... I think 11 was solid, and good advertising created interest in 12.

Quote: Originally Posted by 1WEiRDguy

too bad they dont count trade ins

I really don't think 50 OSers trading in the game impact sales too much... I don't think too many people traded in the game