Madden 07 Earns $100 Million in First Week Sales 89
192939495969798999 writes "CNN reports that Madden 07 grossed over $100 million in the first week, helping to resurrect a sales slump for Electronic Arts. The article states that most people are waiting for the release of PS3 and/or Wii to make game purchases." From the article: "An industry turnaround isn't expected until next year, and EA officials predicted during its quarterly earnings report on August 1 that videogame sales for 2006 across the industry would be flat to down 5 percent."
next year (Score:5, Funny)
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3 of my friends got this game for the 360 and I must say that I think EA dropped the ball on this one (seriously, no pun intended!)
the game has locked up several times on one of my friend's consoles, and he hasn't had that problem at all with any other game. Also, there are a lot of problems with collision detection and player animations; namely the celebratory animations after a touchdown. I've seen players get stuck in the air and go into a seizure, and occasionally, a
I'm Curious... (Score:3, Insightful)
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I had this happen to me. After playing Madden for a few months, I knew the rosters, strengths, and weaknesses of most of the major pro teams. I knew about nickel defenses, running plays, and out patterns. I learned when it was best to do one thing strategically over another, and that information did wonders for me as an armchair quarterback.
Basically, the game turned me into a more knowledgeable football fan, and helped to increase my enjoyment watching the sport on television ten-fold.
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Baseball is the same way. If you're involved in actively watching the sport, and you have an appreciation for the strategy involved, baseball's a great sport to watch. Hell it's even a great sport to listen to on the radio.
My suggestion to appeal to geek in us - Try keeping score [layhands.com] It's a lot of fun and keeps you in the game. Give it a shot.
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Never touched a Madden game in my life, though. It's bad enough watching his TV commercials.
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You know, you can turn the commentary off. Though I don't think you can turn off the "Maddenisms", but keep the other commentary in the Madden games. Nothing infuriates me more than making a stupid defensive mistake and having Madden chime in that it was an offensive "textbook play". Fuck you Madden. Fuck you.
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I do like playing the Madden games, and I liked the NFL2K series too -- it's a fun game to play on a console, but I don't really consider it a sport -- the 'athletes' play one game a week, a play typically lasts fo
Gods and jocks (Score:1)
All that different from Madden 06, 05, ... etc (Score:1)
It's a sports game (I admit that I've never been fond of sports games, just play the sport) so what are the huge changes from Madden 05 to Madden 06, and more importantly why do people keep buying the newer game? Slightly better textures? New player rosters? Would somebody please let me know, because I am at a loss.
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Personally, I'd say $30 would be a better price point for it rather than $50/ea.
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Re:All that different from Madden 06, 05, ... etc (Score:5, Insightful)
Usually it is just new rosters and more player animations, capabilities. People buy the game to play with friends or online, once you play a game for awhile, you learn its quirks, so even if you had a new roster, the game wouldn't be as much fun. However a new game with new tweaks, will take a while to learn, so the game will be fun for another couple of months.
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A) Games in the "DnD" (as you put it) universe at the very least have different storylines. Different events will occur leading to something new, whereas in football you play football. Each game of football you play will be differemt, but I can't see the difference between madden 06, 05, etc being all that riveting (50$ worth of fun that is)
B) Yes, classes/spells/abilities are similar between games.
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You can sit around and talk about the game with football fans who don't even play Madden.
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The problem is, I
I know... we'll call it (Score:2)
McMahon's WWE Touchdown?
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Though I think there have to be at least one or two football manager sims that allow you to take the illegal route...
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It's called, 'Blitz: The League'.
Fun game. Take a look: http://blitzleague.com/ [blitzleague.com]
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You are aware that the two aren't mutually exclusive right? I love playing in a wide variety of sports and I also like playing video game versions of a much smaller subset fo sports. Though is I could manage to find 22 people willing to play tackle football, I'd almost certainly pick that over Madden.
"why do people keep buying the newer game? Slightly better textures? New player rosters?"
Player roster updates are nice. The textures t
Sentence Structure? Cell Structure? (Score:3, Funny)
Interesting (Score:1, Offtopic)
To be fair (Score:2)
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When I have friends over to play games- we all play the same copy of the game.
If I had to pay per person for my copy of Halo, I would have paid for at least 10 players by now. Many of whom have never played Halo anywhere else.
Also, when I am done watching a movie in the theatre, I can't sell my ticket to someone else. I can do that with a game.
So it isn't an apples to apples comparison, but there are a lot of other factors to look at.
How about production costs though? (Score:2)
What was the cost of production of Madden '07?
What was the cost to make PotC-DMC?
Those would be interesting numbers to see.
DG
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OK, so I'm bitter. Sue me.
Probably a bigger deal for Xbox 360 users (Score:2)
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And in one month... (Score:2)
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I mean, who wants to see the sweat piling up on some fat linesman's asscrack anyway?
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Almost unbelievable (Score:5, Informative)
On a side note I've owned Madden almost every year since the Sega Genesis. The 360 version is the best one I've played hands-down. Gameplay is very realistic (need to focus on run to open up pass, defensive play calling most important I've ever seen), zoomed-in graphics are breathtaking, and the high-definition photos of each player are a great addition.
I love having a real-life ESPN ticker on the bottom. The UI itself is very smooth and intuitive. The mini games are a blast when you have a few friends over but don't want a longer competition between just 2 people.
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If people like these games and want to buy them then that is what EA is going to make.
It's not that the consumer has no choices (well they don't now... other than not playing a football game)... it's that the consumer has choosen to buy this game on a yearly basis so that is what EA is going to make. If it had no redeaming quality it would not sell.
You might say (Score:3, Funny)
Yey... (Score:2)
Easy to break records when your the only one (Score:2)
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Whats to stop all these other companies from doing the same thing? Anyone remember controlling #4 on Green Bay back in the late 90s?
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To be fair Take Two did quietly stick it to EA and locked up 3rd party rights to Major League Baseball, but they did it a much more generous way, by getting only 3rd party exclusivity th
Can someone tell me a difference between versions (Score:2)
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So, I figured if they're buying Madden every year, they'd buy a Superbowl PPV package every year, which is something I've been saying for years (mostly by talking to myself).
Clueless (Score:1)
Not possible (Score:2)
At best you're stuck with "alternate football league" games in open source.
Other than that, yes, you're right, football is never going to evolve, it's ripe for becoming an open source game market.
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It's not because 07 was that great... (Score:4, Insightful)
08 projection? Don't even bother making the game. Sell a box with last year's game in it again, then make waves in 09. That's what six figure salaries suits call "a three-year-plan".
PS3 in trouble? (Score:1)
Piracy (Score:4, Funny)
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Best football game ever was... (Score:2, Interesting)
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Quarterback drops back... back... back... back... back... back... goal line... throws... touchdown!!!
I myself was a fan of the 100-yard pass completion on a 1st and 10 at the goal line. :-)
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Decline of Game Quality... (Score:1)
2007 is better than 2006 so far (Score:3, Interesting)
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Madden Schmadden (Score:1)
http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1970s/f.htm [thelogbook.com]
Send in the TROLL!!! (Score:1)
I call bullshit on waiting. (Score:3, Insightful)
Best Buy offer (Score:1)
Thats it. Just wondering if some deals/specials like this drove the sales up slighty.
No Co-op mode! (Score:2, Interesting)
Not only is that functionality not in the 360 version (nor is Owner mode, audibles, and other features), but that co-op play was *removed* from the Xbox and PS2 versions as well. So, for my friend who likes to sit down and play on the same team with his son - too bad! I only play Madden with my friends on the same team - too bad for me!
Hmm...vanilla or...vanilla? (Score:1)
The fact is, Sega was making a better product and undercutting them on cost and EA saw the writing on the wall. I think the NFL did a terrible disservice to the fans by selling out to EA.
Not worth it (Score:2)