Madden 08 sales

[cleveland124]

MontanaHatchet said:

cleveland124 said:

Why do you find it suspicous?  Most game sales come from new consoles.  The Wii constantly sells 200-250% of the combined PS3 and Xbox360 totals.  It's the whole what is more important argument, tie ratio or installbase.  The Wii is starting to get to the point that even though Madden may not be its target audience, it can still sell quite a bit.

Yes, except Madden NFL 09 launches in about a month. Even if the Wii version outsells the others, it doesn't make sense that it does it by such a large amount. The 360 version was selling about 15-20k a week, then drops to 5k. The PS3 version was selling about 6-7k a week, drops to 3k. The Wii version was selling about 10k a week, still there. If all of them are seeing a sudden drop, why not the Wii? You could claim that the weekly sales are higher, but then it would have sold much better when it was outselling the 360 week after week.

 

That actually makes even more sense.  The PS3 and Xbox 360 are the target markets for Madden.  So people would know 09 is coming out soon and do not want to purchase 08.  The Wii owners see a $29.99 game that is decent and pick it up not caring if Madden 09 is coming out soon or knowing what features would be worth grabbing 09 for.