Eurogamer: Are you happy with the commercial success of the last Tiger Woods game?

Peter Moore: Commercially, the numbers speak for themselves. It's not where we'd want to be on a year on year basis. It's been disappointing, in particular on the Wii. There's no hiding, because the results are there. The Wii has been a disappointment.

It was a difficult year because we had the Wii MotionPlus bundle the previous year. That was a tremendous platform for us to sell on. We had strong advertising, strong support from Nintendo, both Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of America. Consequently we always knew [this] was going to be a difficult year.

I will say this: we're continuing to focus on the Ryder Cup being a boost for us, and then Tiger on Move becomes a good opportunity for us to get on a new platform launch. You're going to see Tiger well represented as part of the Move launch from our point of view.

Remember, Andrew Wilson from my team was on stage at the Sony press conference at E3. They chose that as the game they thought showed off Move best. We'll get a boost this September. Ryder Cup is in October. We have the Ryder Cup licence. We have online teamplay built into the game, but Ryder Cup hasn't started yet. Whenever it's in Europe it's a big boost for us because it's a popular tournament over here.

So, it's a little early, but the early numbers are disappointing.

Eurogamer: Some analysts suggest the situation with Tiger's private life has impacted sales.

Peter Moore: Yeah, it's a consumer call. I'm sure it probably has something to do with it, but there are a lot of elements. That's a consumer call we have no control over.

We've been clear on our positioning. We stand by Tiger as a golfer. He's still the number one golfer in the world. I don't think there's much doubt he'll get picked for the Ryder Cup - that would be a big disappointment for people in Europe. Tiger not playing well is not good for golf. It's as simple as that.

We've been consistent in standing by him, continuing to do so, and look forward to the day when he gets back to the form that won him 14 Majors and 71 PGA Tour events. You don't suddenly lose it. Of course, he's got a little bit of a challenge going on in his private life. We wish him all the best with it.

Full interview here

Lol, he's hoping Tiger will get back only for EA's monetary issues, he doesn't give a damn about him becoming the greatest player of all times or not haha, that's pretty sad.

well, EA is a dissapointment so they really have no room to talk...

No doubt lifetime sales of PGA Tour 11 on Wii are still below first week sales of the last Tiger Woods game.

Very disappointing though the sales of the HD versions will also be lower than last year. Still not as sucky.

Good.

Yeah EA really sucks. I mean they constantly put out shit like Mass Effect, NHL series, Rock Band, Dead Space, Dragon Age, Medal of Honor, Need For Speed, Bad Company...I mean come on who plays any of these shitty games. EA has nothing.

More like the game has been a disappointment.

It was nice of EA to try adding a few key new features in every annual release instead of just updating the roster, but there's really only so much innovation you can bring to a sports game with an annual turnover.

There just aren't enough fans of most sports to support an annual release schedule. How about you build online roster updates into the game and try a 2-3 year dev cycle instead of forcing this year's game to compete with last year's marginally less refined game. A lot of consumers are perfectly happy to buy last year's game at half the price.

WIth Motion Plus they hit the pinnacle of the series on Wii, and there was nowhere they really could have gone.

Vitality Sensor Golf?

The real question is ; do we really need to buy the same game every year over and over again? ......................................I didn't think so 

god no advertisement campaign for the Wii at all, and with his deteriorating  image, it's obvious to see why