Fight Night Champion Revealed with 2 Screenshots, To Be Released in 2011

[Money99]

http://espn.go.com/espn/thelife/vide...night-champion

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After the disappointing sales of EA's "Fight Night: Round 4", it looks as though the game is boosting the violent imagery in hopes of upping the shock value...

What???
According to VGChartz, the game sold over 2M copies worldwide:

http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/brows...ht%20Round%204

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Xbox 360 - 1.17M PS3 - 1.11M

How can over 2.25M be considered poor sales??? I think that's pretty freakin' good!

Quote: Originally Posted by The Visualizer

the blog said they figured they would change the name now rather than run out of rounds later, they probably could have done better than champion tho

"Fight Night: The Road"

Man, I'm smart!

[DaveDQ]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

http://espn.go.com/espn/thelife/vide...night-champion What??? According to VGChartz, the game sold over 2M copies worldwide: http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/brows...ht%20Round%204 How can over 2.25M be considered poor sales??? I think that's pretty freakin' good! "Fight Night: The Road" Man, I'm smart!

Maybe they are thinking in comparison to FN3?

[thelwig14]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

http://espn.go.com/espn/thelife/vide...night-champion What??? According to VGChartz, the game sold over 2M copies worldwide: http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/brows...ht%20Round%204 How can over 2.25M be considered poor sales??? I think that's pretty freakin' good! "Fight Night: The Road" Man, I'm smart!

Disappointing sales is all on the Fight Night team. The removal of buttons..only to add them months later when consumers moved on...is all their fault.

[DaveDQ]

Quote: Originally Posted by thelwig14

Disappointing sales is all on the Fight Night team. The removal of buttons..only to add them months later when consumers moved on...is all their fault.

I disagree. FN3 was big in sales because it was the first game to show what these systems could do. Everyone was wowed by the visuals in FN3 and it really carried the game's sales figures. FN4 did great in sales but many saw it as a let down in comparison to FN3.

[eye guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by SHAKYR

This is a waiting and see for me.

Yip me too. If you look at the pic where Pacquiao's throwing the punch, some things look weird, eg. Winky's body.

[BLemieux]

Quote: Originally Posted by eye guy

Yip me too. If you look at the pic where Pacquiao's throwing the punch, some things look weird, eg. Winky's body.

Well it's still early in development, so that will hopefully be fixed. But so far the game looks amazing. Like another person said, it better not be scripted in career mode like PrizeFighter. But I don't think EA would do that.

Hopefully it will also have 2 control schemes, make it so fighters can't throw fifty punches before they're finally fatigued, and make the overall fighting system better.