| Mr Khan said: 1) The point of the article is the diminished year-over-year sales. It is disingenuous to ignore the fact that NFL 25 is on one fewer platforms this year than last year 2) To so ignore it, we would have to present a good argument as to precisely why it's on fewer platforms this year. 3) It is yet more disingenuous to point towards consoles that have a total install base of 0, presently. 4) Madden 13 was deliberately gimped on the Wii U. EA got precisely what they deserved there, and they know they could've done better if they had tried The fact that Wii U and EA's intransigience has been excluded from the conversation is what's inappropriate here. |
Madden on WIi U wasnt available at Madden 13 launch, so the lack of a Wii U version is irrelevant in this discussion when talking about comparing launch sales which is the point of the article. The platforms you should be talking about should actually be the PlayStation Vita and the Wii, which you completely ignore because you have tunnel vision on this EA hating Wii U thing.
Anyway sure. Ill bite. Lets take a look at opening Week sales for Madden 13 on Vita and Wii. Hell, Ill even throw in Wii U opening Week Madden 13 sales too.
Wii - 23k
Vita - 28k
Wii U - 10k
So yeah, this launch is missing a whopping 61,000 units from Nintendo platforms and the Vita. This explains why theyre down by ~600,000 units YoY.
