EA Sports’ Peter Moore On The Struggle Of Selling Sports Games To Wii Owners

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goddog said:

stof said:
Madden Tiger and Fifa the Wrestling game and Pro Evo have all sold fairly well. I expect all of those games' 09 editions to pass 1 million. They might not be close to dominant, but thats still pretty damn good.

 

but thats been the expectation of wii madden for the last 2 years, even more so this year, where it was supposed ot out sell the ps3s version at minimum. judging based on install base this year, and ill say the base will be close to double next year, we can see around 300-500k on launch it should get close to 1 million, but even next year without a major change i just dont see it happening 

Whose expectation? some nerds on the internet? Yes, that is low for its install base, so what? In both my posts I've tried to stress that regardless of how they compare to other editions, they're still selling quite well over time. A game like NCAA, yeah, that raises questions, as the game sells outright poorly. But there's a sizable group of sports games (traditional ones) that sell fairly well on the Wii, and the fact that they aren't selling incredibly well doesn't change that.