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Madden 10 Wii Sales Disappoint

Rest of Madden Sales Not Exactly Thrilling

by Veggie Jackson

Madden NFL 10 is, obviously, the top selling game for the month of August.  With five separate SKUs, this year’s pro football experience has already moved close to 2 million copies.  While those numbers aren’t particularly impressive for a perennial triple-A title like Madden, they’re still enough to eclipse every other title in August.  Still, EA isn’t happy about the numbers; especially on the Wii.  The “All-Play” version for Nintendo’s home console sold only 67k copies.

This is the second year in a row that the Wii version of the game has seriously underperformed in comparison with the Xbox 360 version.  It seems that Wii fans, once content to but pretty much anything with a Wii logo, are getting more selective with their purchases, and are even skipping major titles because of the Wii versions’ limited features and sophistication.

One wonders what Madden’s sales would look like if the Wii version had sold as well as they expected.  The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions are excellent games, and have received all the critical acclaim they deserve, but haven’t sold as well as EA had hoped.  Madden’s a game with legs, though, so expect the sales numbers to steadily increase over the next few weeks and months.

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  • Sean
    Sean

    67K is a paltry number. Chances are you're going to stop seeing a Wii-specific version.

  • J-Man
    J-Man

    I'm no fan of football (be it American or European), but shouldn't there be more players on the field? If that's the standard mode, no wonder it sold poorly.

    If it isn't, then there's something else wrong with the game, and I doubt it's the customers.

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