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MARCUSDJACKSON on 17 December 2012

happydolphin said:

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small userbase = not many users

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HappySqurriel on 17 December 2012

WindyCityHeat said:

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Conegamer said:
Whilst concerning, it's not surprising. What did you expect?

The largest sports franchise just BOMBED on wiiu. No more madden on wiiu, thats for sure.

What are the COD stats? If COD failed as well, it's done.. It's wii all over again. Im writing this to get the point across that the "S" is "hitting" the "Fan."

A perfect example of an over-reaction ...

There are (roughly) 1 million people in North America who own a Wii U and (probably) something like 25% to 50% of them will not open it until Christmas. Of those Wii U owners, the ones who are dedicated die-hard Madden fans (probably) bought Madden 2013 months ago for the XBox 360, PS3 or Wii and many would not have bought the Wii U version because it is well known to be inferior to the already released versions.

Madden 2014 and 2015 will be released to the Wii U at the same time as the other versions, will most likely run the same code as the XBox 360 and PS3 versions, and will see dramatically higher sales because of this.

"Something like 25% to 50% haven't opened their wiiu" Oh yah, you know that? Where's your data? Oh...you just randomly stated nonsense as if it were fact lol. Don't reply to a comment unless you have facts to back it up. You're obviously making things up, pulling random numbers out of thin air.

No offense there, man.

No, I understand the concept of seasonal shopping trends and can read a calendar ...

Last year in the United states 53% of XBox 360, 44% of Wii systems, and 43% of PS3 systems were sold in the months of November and December; the XBox 360 was selling at 575%, the Wii at 405%, and the PS3 at 378% the rate they had over the previous 10 months. This exact same trend happens every year across most major products as people buy gifts for family and friends at Christmas. With the Wii U being a new system with a lot of early adopter interest, it is unrealistic to expect that the 75%+ of systems purchased as gifts (as the historical trend would indicate) would necessarily apply to the Wii U but it is still fair to say that a very large portion were purchased as gifts (probably in the 25% to 50% range).