| Pineapple said: When you're talking about the whole generation, you have to add in all the versions of the games. Firstly, the sales bit. If you add together all disc-sales - which is what we have access to - this is what you get. X360: Madden: 16.13 million Ps3: Madden: 10.78 million Wii: Madden: 4.02 million DS: Madden: 1.14 million PsP: Madden: 4.15 million Total: Madden: 36.22 million Or, in other words, more or less exactly the same as each other. Which has seen the highest profit at the current moment is relatively hard to figure out, and largely depends on the development costs. No single Madden game comes close to GTA IV in development costs, but there are so many of them, that the sum might be more or less the same. Additionally, there might be some substantial license fees to be ablle to call the game Madden (I know there used to be for Football player names, which was why only Fifa had those back pre-2000). In short, we really can't tell which is more profitable. Furthermore, GTA is poised to sell a lot more in the end of the generation than Madden is, considering that GTA V is releasing relatively soon. Madden 12 sold 5 million, and it's been steadily selling less and less each year this generation, meaning that it has less than 10 million left in the bag for the generation. GTA V, on the other hand, should sell somewhere around 20 million. For the seventh generation, Grand Theft Auto is bigger in terms of unit sales, far bigger in terms of uniue purchasers, more critically acclaimed, and generally makes a far bigger impact than Madden. Which is more profitable isn't certain. Overall, though, the biggest of the generation is definitely Grand Theft Auto, unless something very odd happens to GTA V. |
Very nicely said
