That, and it is also about userbase growth ...

Being that Madden 2009 sold twice as much as Madden 2008 in its initial week you would need to sell twice as many copies of Madden to new Wii owners in order to see similar legs produced by the introduction of new gamers; being that (at best) you could assume that late adopters to a generation had an equal distribution of Madden fans as early adopters, this would imply that Nintendo would need to sell twice as many Wii systems to keep this in balance.

This could be balanced out by having enough of a gain in people who bought Madden later in its life, but I suspect that most people buy Madden for their system fairly early if it is available for a system they own ...

I don't know it could of been that the 2005 and 2004 push for Madden was always depicting the game being played on an Xbox or Xbox360, in product placements Madden woud always be paired with the Xbox or Xbox360.

Heck at a point even I believed Madden = Microsoft, that's bad because I know it was made by EA.

I always bought Madden on the PS2 because it's always been on the PS2. All that is brand recognition. The Wii Maddens are selling better, but 360 Maddens won't be touched for years.

I enjoyed reading your "thesis".

so twisted form of patriotism .... no .... its a bit more simple the 360 got picked up first friends are on live, so people buying in are more likely to buy the version that friends have. or that frat boy effect if you prefer.

true greater graphics capacity is important part of why the wii does poorly, but the Ns online structure, combined with its bizarre desire to market madden on wii as something else than other madden hurt sales, as dose the demographic of main buyers.

for the ps3 to become the principle player they need to expand the install base so more friends will have then its just a toss up to what a person prefers.

The sad thing is people keep buying the same game every year. At least the wii version offered something new.

Just looking at the numbers and seeing the role reversal for ps2 and ps3. Next year should be a little over 600k and closer to the 360 version since it seems like that version had very little change but who knows.