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IamAwsome on 29 August 2014
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DialgaMarine said:
BMaker11 said:
DialgaMarine said:
The game was clearly developed for XBone and then very poorly ported. I'm sure the fact there's an exclusive XBone bundle has nothing to do with it *wink wink nudge nudge*

Even still, there's no denying this was intentional.

EA may want to do something shady like that since they best buddies with MS right now....but I doubt the NFL would allow the game on the best system, both hardware wise and in terms of marketshare, to be sabotaged due to MS. Even if the article is a joke, I could believe Madden 25 being better on XBone because, again, EA is in bed with MS, so EA would be giving the XBone preferential treatment in games needed to be made for the console's launch (in this case, Madden 25, and Xbox was the preferred system for Madden last gen). So EA Tiburon may be a shade more familiar with XBone than PS4, hence the differences, however subtle.

 I'm not sure if the NFL would care that deeply about the details. I don't know how seriously they take the game franchise, but I feel like their biggest concern is the game selling millions, and if EA can promise them that while still slightly gimping a version on MS's dime, then it would make EA a winner on 2 fronts and almost like they're recieving 2 fatass paychecks. I wouldn't put it past a publisher, especially EA, to pull some crap like that. Regardless, it has already been well established which of the 2 consoles is more powerful, and there's no way in hell anyone can convince me that a game like Madden is so demanding that PS4 can't run it as well as XBone because of cloud BS or something like that. They tried to pull that crap with Titanfall, and we all witnessed how that went down. 

I don't think the NFL takes Madden as seriously as people think, and I doubt they care that much about sales. They care more about exposure and EA not screwing people over. If the NFL cared about individual versions being gimped they would have said something about the Wii versions being gimped. 

As for Microsoft, I doubt this is a moneyhat becuase Madden is bigger on Xbox than PlayStation. This is probably just a game that was made on XBO first then crappily ported over. The PS4 being more powerful doesn't automatically mean that every multiplat will look better on it. That didn't happen with the GCN and Xbox.