Gamespot: EA benches Wii NCAA Football

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RolStoppable said:

Chrizum said:

goddog said:

averyblund said:

goddog said:
this dose not come a s a surprise but it might mean the loss of madden is only a year or two of percived under performance away on the wii.

Ughhh

care to explain yourself? EA has made shitty ports hoping to make a mint, the havent they view it as a bussiness failure. there is presidence for this. the non support of the dreamcast after the saturn debacle. the poor sales of madden on the cube and now the wii could kill the franchise.  I think it has to show a jump in sales the next two years to at least come to equla sales of HD versions. if that does not happen kiss it good by

LOL, Madden on the Wii does just fine, and rakes in a healthy profit for EA.

Come on, you should know better than that. As long as the Wii sells and EA holds exclusivity to the NFL license, Madden will be made for the Wii. EA has to make Madden for every relevant system, that was the requirement by the NFL when they sold EA the exclusivity.

Madden on the Wii doesn't have to sell well, it doesn't even need to make a profit.

I never claimed it didnt make a profit I said it didnt meet expectations, Im betting NCAA football made profit, but did not meet expectations either....

 

I was unaware of a relevency clause in the contract and if that is true I retract my statment about it being in jepoardy. however the fact remains madden on the wii under performes in terms of units sold vs the other platforms, especially in units sold per console deployed. that needs to change and change fast.