spurgeonryan said: With everyone jumping on board the switch train as of late I am surprised as well. It is either cost prohibitive like you said or they are worried about sports sales on a Nintendo system. Besides Tiger Woods and Mario sports titles have a long history of selling poorly on Nintendo systems. They were not too bad in the N64 days, and not good since the Snes days. |
Madden actually fared decently on Wii:
Pos | Game | Platform | Year | Genre | Publisher | North America | Europe | Japan | Rest of World | Global |
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1 | Madden NFL 08 | PS2 | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 2.14 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 0.35 | 2.57 |
2 | Madden NFL 08 | X360 | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 2.18 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 2.37 |
3 | Madden NFL 08 | PS3 | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.89 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.97 |
4 | Madden NFL 08 | Wii | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.88 |
Pos | Game | Platform | Year | Genre | Publisher | North America | Europe | Japan | Rest of World | Global |
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1 | Madden NFL 09 | X360 | 2008 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 2.21 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 2.54 |
2 | Madden NFL 09 | PS3 | 2008 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 1.56 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 1.89 |
3 | Madden NFL 09 | PS2 | 2008 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 1.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.27 | 1.49 |
4 | Madden NFL 09 All-Play | Wii | 2008 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.77 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.84 |
Pos | Game | Platform | Year | Genre | Publisher | North America | Europe | Japan | Rest of World | Global |
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1 | Madden NFL 10 | X360 | 2009 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 2.52 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.22 | 2.83 |
2 | Madden NFL 10 | PS3 | 2009 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 2.03 | 0.13 | 0.00 | 0.21 | 2.37 |
3 | Madden NFL 10 | PS2 | 2009 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.88 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.98 |
4 | Madden NFL 10 | Wii | 2009 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.62 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.72 |
Pos | Game | Platform | Year | Genre | Publisher | North America | Europe | Japan | Rest of World | Global |
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1 | Madden NFL 11 | X360 | 2010 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 2.38 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.19 | 2.69 |
2 | Madden NFL 11 | PS3 | 2010 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 2.05 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 2.40 |
3 | Madden NFL 11 | Wii | N/A | Sports | Unknown | 0.68 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.73 |
4 | Madden NFL 11 | PS2 | 2010 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.41 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.50 |
They weren't selling gangbusters like on Sony and Microsoft consoles, but they held their own enough to warrant an annual commitment from EA.
Meanwhile, FIFA topped a million sales a couple of times on Wii:
Pos | Game | Platform | Year | Genre | Publisher | North America | Europe | Japan | Rest of World | Global |
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1 | FIFA Soccer 08 | PS2 | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.68 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.46 | 3.14 |
2 | FIFA Soccer 08 | PS3 | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.35 | 1.07 | 0.02 | 0.31 | 1.75 |
3 | FIFA Soccer 08 | PSP | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.20 | 0.76 | 0.00 | 0.39 | 1.35 |
4 | FIFA Soccer 08 | X360 | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.31 | 0.89 | 0.01 | 0.14 | 1.35 |
5 | FIFA Soccer 08 | Wii | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.32 | 0.59 | 0.01 | 0.12 | 1.03 |
Pos | Game | Platform | Year | Genre | Publisher | North America | Europe | Japan | Rest of World | Global |
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1 | FIFA Soccer 11 | PS3 | 2010 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.61 | 3.28 | 0.06 | 1.12 | 5.08 |
2 | FIFA Soccer 11 | X360 | 2010 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.71 | 2.39 | 0.02 | 0.40 | 3.52 |
3 | FIFA Soccer 11 | PSP | 2010 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.13 | 0.70 | 0.01 | 0.36 | 1.21 |
4 | FIFA Soccer 11 | Wii | 2010 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.26 | 0.69 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 1.08 |
It wasn't until the active userbase of the Wii dropped, and then the failure of the Wii U to build up a significant install base that EA found it not worth the expense for annual releases on Nintendo hardware.