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mike_intellivision on 09 May 2013
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superchunk said:
Scoobes said:
Concerning Fifa, don't EA have a deal with Fifa where they have to release on every feasible platform?

Same deal exists with Madden, Star Wars (now), and I believe a few other sports titles like Tiger.

However, every contract has loopholes and / or exclusions. Madden 25 is not coming to Nintendo consoles, so clearly there is a Nintendo clause.


There is probably a sales quota that has to be reached. And by putting out late version and/or incomplete/incompetent ports that don't sell, a company can get out of the requirement.

So a semi-lackluster WiiU Madden 13 released moths after the other versions did not sell well -- so no Madden the next year. 

Notice EA did not do that when it had the same trouble with the original Xbox 360 version. And it kept releaseing Xbox (original Xbox) versions until 2008.

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