| superchunk said:
30k on a rushed port that didn't even include the latest technology they put into Madden. (i.e a port of the previous years game) Let's low ball it and say EA makes $25 per game sold, as it did retail for $60. That's $750,000 on a crappy late port. I'm sure they made money on it. There is no way they expected much more considering it was a crappy port that was advetised to be missing key upgrades. I mean not only was it luanched months after it came out on PS360, but it was basically the previous years game which means it was really over a year late. |
The crappy ports that were missing features and released months late on 360 and PS3 sold 15x and 11x more than the Wii U version in the same time frame. Even the Wii version was 10x more. I don't see why they wouldn't have expected more. I don't know if there were any prediction threads for Madden prior to the Wii U's release, but I really doubt the consensus would have been anywhere near 30k.
I can't say for certain whether they made money on it, but I would say the fact there won't be one this year suggests they don't feel that it is a good investment. I mean Madden didn't do so hot on the Wii to begin with, so when you have a platform that won't sell anywhere near as much AND has a much worse attach rate for Madden, why should EA continue with it? Actually if it was just about eking out a meager profit, then it would make more sense to keep a Wii version for this year.
