Ubisoft dev: "Wii is a refurbished Gamecube"

[milkyjoe]

Antabus said:

milkyjoe said:

Antabus said:

Soma said:

Well, looking at Madden sales, the 07 and 08 sold better on Wii than PS3.  09 was the first time it sold better on PS3 and coincidence or not, it was when they started to make it "cartoony".

Madden 08 sold more than 09 on wii. But guess what? Madden 10 sold even less than 09. And that game was not "cartoony" like 09.

It's entirely plausible that the release of Madden 09 in all it's 'cartoony' glory killed the interest in the franchise on Wii for a lot of people for fairly obvious reasons.

The drop off in sales in subsequent years is just too much of a coincidence to ignore.

That sounds like an excuse. 10 is not cartoony but it won't sell because... 09 was cartoony? Yeah, that is logical.

The logic is sound. People buy these Madden games and others like them every year. If I have a bad experience one year, or if I feel the quality of the franchise is declining, I'm less likely to go back the next year. To deny this happens is to deny the obvious. PES was the king of football/soccer games five years ago. Now it is FIFA. Why did PES decline? The story is the same on several different message boards and forums all over the internet. It's because people felt that Konami weren't delivering the same high quality experience as they used to, and they haven't bought a PES game since because they can get that high quality experience elsewhere.

To me, that reads very similar to what happened with Madden on Wii. They didn't deliver the same experience as before, people deserted the franchise on the console and they haven't gone back...

But no, you're right, that kind of thing just doesn't happen.