And herein lies Nintendos problem. back in the day everyone would play Madden on a nintendo console. Nowadays if you dont like Nintendo 1st party direction, then theres no point to ninty consoles. Every single best 3rd party game basically doesnt come out on ninty machines.

@bold. I guess I have to explain... but keep in mind this is your thread, the link should be clearer to you than anyone else, but here I go.

In OP you mention that only 42 people are playing Madden on WiiU, you then go on to say ITT that there will be no more Madden game on WiiU.

Poster happysqurriel comes in and gives an explanation for the number in OP, one of which being that people have received the U as a gift and the numbers may be dampened. You deny it by requiring facts, which nobody has for such statistic (who has/who hasn't received the U as a gift).

I come in doing two things: the first is asking you to explain the sales boost during the holidays for Nintendo. We know the answer to that, and it's that Nintendo's main market is families and makes its main sales during the Christmas season. We know that Christmas is the gift-giving season so it is a reasonable speculation to think that many are given as gifts. The second thing I do is give you a means to measure his claim: by looking at the online numbers trend from Dec 25th to Jan 1st.

Instead of discussing (this is a thread after all), you require facts (which we obviously do not have and can work with analysis and speculation for certain variables at best) and say that I'm off topic.

*Applause*

I've also learned that people who regularly use "lol" in debate are not committed to discussion but are engaged in ridiculing other users, so enjoy your sausage fest, I'm out.

I blew a pile of money and bought 6 excellent WiiU games. 4 third party. Madden wasn't even on my radar.

I remember there being less than 150 playing Call of Duty one day, too. I think it's awesome. No stress on the servers, no 5 year olds screaming into the mic, no need to buy a mic.

Why do you guys always look at the bad side of things?

small userbase = not many users

it is an "educated" guess when you know that sales of game consoles increase a lot weeks before christmas because people buy them as gifts and those consoles obviously aren't connected to the tv nor the internet before people get those gifts.

just check the last weeks since wii u release and count the whole sales of ps3, wii and 360 and compare them with three weeks in october. do you know what you will get then? a huge difference in sales which most of them will be christmas gifts.

now wii u won't have such a big part for christmas gifts because some bought the new console for themselve but it will be still easily a big part. or do you think no one will get a wii u for christmas?

Interesting, only 42 online you say. Riddle me this, when exactly did the Wii U launch?

BRAVO CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!

Now for the posts that look into the reasons a little more deeply, which is more interesting overall.

i also forgot something, i used 1.5m madden sales for 360 but this was already 15 weeks on the market. after three weeks madden for 360 had "only" 1m sales. so i gave the 360 an unfair advantage of 500k games which people can play online.

It is annoying that kotaku always tries to bash the Wii U since it was announced. Yes kotaku visitors numbers are decreasing since a year now and the people behind are desperate, but do they really think such articles will increase visitors numbers?