Madden 08 sales

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cleveland124 said:

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. 

 

Exactly. I think everyone here is surprised that the Wii version is outselling the others at this point, but all things considered, it's not that hard to believe. Many 360 and PS3 games are heavily front-loaded with their sales and not many non-Nintendo Wii games are. I remember when everyone was saying Madden on the Wii was a huge flop last years, but it's had the legs to end up surprising everyone. Although it's impressive the Wii version is showing better legs, it still has a long way to go to catch up to the 360 and PS2 versions.

Anyways, you hit the nail on the head. Most of the hardcore Madden fans play the game on the X Box and PS systems. So they scoop it up early, which leads to sales really disappearing when the new version comes up. Not that hard figure out.