While there is fundamentally nothing wrong with the "All Play" expansion of Sports Games, EA incompetent marketing of the idea has without a doubt, crippled any potential for success. The covers thus far in the "All Play" series have featured first a doofy mascot while other platform's versions featured hardcore battle action football players and now for Madden a goofy laughing Football Player pointing playfully instead of getting ready to throw a ball like on the covers of the other platforms versions. In addition the "All Play" is boldly displayed in happy yellow in much the same way you'd expect a special olympics version of a sports game to be displayed. Why not call it the "All Play Special Edition" so that it sounds like something that is better instead of mitigated for wider appeal?

At Best Buy, the Ps3 version of MAdden 09 was nearly sold out, the DS version of Madden 09 was nearly sold out, the 360 version (what little they had) was nearly sold out, but the Wii "All Play" Version was in healthy abundance.

Way to go EA, you really understand the Wii demographic, or rather, why assume the Wii has to forever possess a completely alien demographic to the rest of the industry instead of trying to woo core and hardcore gamers over to the console, nah, what am I saying, that sounds almost like market strategy. Maybe All Play will work out in the end, but get rid of the dip-shit silly-ass cover art for the "All Play" series at the very least.

Anecdotal evidence FTL?

Who knows what the sales of the game are? Maybe you should wait until the sales come in before bashing All Play?

I just dont think the wii is the right place for sports games

The Wii version of Madden was never going to sell well. EA could have added extras and it still would not have sold.

WoW, I may agree with several of your points regarding the cover artwork and promotion, it is a bit early to deliver the "Wii All Play Madden 09 Bombs" destinction. Lets see how the sales turn out. You may be absolutely correct, however, I doubt EA will abandon such a large target audience regardless of sales.

I'm in the wait for sales group. Depends by what you mean by bombs. Stores don't know how to stock Wii software and may have loaded up on Madden 09 for the Wii thinking it would sell out like everything else. When honestly if Madden 09 is as great as they say, it's still likely to be the 2nd Madden picked up by multi console gamers. I know it is for me. PS3 Madden I'll get first and maybe Wii Madden later. I tried Wii Madden and was dissapointed. The controls work 98% of the time isn't much consolidation when you get sacked. And I'm intrigued by the ability to draw a receiver route, but am otherwise unimpressed by the addition of motion controls.

It won't bomb. It'll have the longest legs and end up being the best selling version of Madden 09.

Without knowing the shipment number, it's really hard to say how well each version sold in raw numbers.

How many times are we going to have people claim a Wii game bombs based on early information only to be proven wrong down the road?

You could at least wait for reliable information before making the thread. The idea that a single store is indicative of the entire nation is pretty ridiculous.

I will bet your hairy ass it won't.

ha if everything is as true as you say about the game and what most poeple think as well about the Wii being all casual and no hard-core.

well what casual player sit and wait for games at midnight or buy them the first day ect. no they just walk in "casually" and buy a game they see that looks good


but yea I think the cover is dumb, whats wrong with throwing farve on the cover for wii. but i really don't care, i hope madden bombs hardcore on all systems so we never have madden again or else they have to actually do something new for the next year. madden is a joke now, just updated roster and some small feature that is new, yet they take away some of the other features, or else somethign that should have been in since beginning.