EA: PGA 11 sales are bad, Wii is a disappointment

[Conegamer]

Gamerace said:

Conegamer said:

I just don't understand how-and why- they expected this game to sell well, and why the hate on the Wii? Maybe if you made a PROPER game (eg real deadspace) then maybe you'll have some say. Shovelware and fitness crap doesn't cut it, I'm afraid.

It's a matter of expecting it to sell in line with previous years.   Wii has always been the top seller of TW games this generation but this year the TW sales on Wii have totally collapsed.  Sales on HD systems aren't stellar either.

Personally, I feel this is because most golf fans on Wii got the WM enhanced TW10, and they are quite content with it.  There's just not enough new content/gameplay in TW11 to justify buying the same game again to the Wii's more casual base.  

Wii's audience is also more likely to be put off by the whole TW image problem.  I can't prove that with any metrics, but I know a lot of women who bought TW Wii for their boyfriends/husbands and you can bet they probably wouldn't want to give their money to a lying, cheating manwhore like Woods or encourage their guys to want to be like Woods.

Shovelware doesn't sell on Wii (unless it's at least half decent and fun) but exercise games do.  EA Sport Active is EA's biggest seller on Wii to date and one you can expect to see on PS3 and 360 soon.

I suppose, but is it not true that EA havn't really been giving Wii owners their AAA releases, and therefore shouldn't complain about sales of a franchise which, as you said, has everything going against it?