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Arcturus on 02 May 2013
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superchunk said:
Arcturus said:
Not sure why this comes as a shock to people. The previous version sold only 30,000 copies. At the moment, it's just not worth EA's time and resources to develop and release the next version on the Wii U.

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.

$750,000 is not a lot of money, and I'd be surprised if they made any money on it.

Another factor to consider is the opportunity cost associated with deciding whether to develop the next Madden game for Wii U. EA has probably determined that their Madden Wii U resources can be assigned to other projects that have the potential to be more profitable for the company.