Why Madden sells the way it does

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johnlucas said:

colonelstubbs said:
Soooo....an american football game sells well in america on an american console because its....american?

Now i get it!

Not 100% of why it sells that way but yes definitely a factor. Why else would a more powerful system like the PS3 not be able to match the sales strength of the 360 version? PS3's price is somewhat a reason but this series matured on the PS platforms for 10 years. You'd think the newest Sony system would still get the lionshare of the sales but this is not so.

Even in spite of the 360 beginning to lose ground to the PS3, the 360 version blows everybody else out of the water. there's a lot of reasons behind this but American identity is definitely one of them.

There's a reason why Nintendo fans never get a Mario version of American football.

John Lucas

Also (at least in Madden 08) the PS3 version was inferior to the 360 version (e.g. framerate). I have the 360 version of Madden 08 and when I played the PS3 version at my brother's house it felt really choppy to me! I didn't like it at all. I'm not sure about this year's version as I've only played the 360 Madden 09, so far, though according to reviews the 360/PS3 versions should be pretty similar.