EA Predicted to Announce Madden, NHL Sales Drops

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @03:30AM from the oooooooh-hanging'-tough dept.

bippy writes "Analyst PJ McNealy predicts that EA will announce Tuesday a 20 percent drop in sales for Madden and a 50 percent drop in sales for NHL 2005, partly due to the success of ESPN's low-price, high-content games. McNealy says this likely won't have a huge financial impact on the game developer, but it will affect them psychologically. I'm just surprised that ESPN's price cut worked. It seems that when Madden came out everyone was saying that the price cut wouldn't help ESPN or hurt EA."

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Re:ESPN Football Full of Bugs! by Squirrel+Killer · 2004-10-19 04:25 · Score: 5, Informative

I'm not saying that ESPN is bug free, but in 3 online leagues and a ton of offline play, I've never experienced a freeze or crash. The only bug I've encountered is occasionly when starting an online game, the game thinks the controller is disconnected. Certainly, you've had your experience, but "full of bugs" to be a huge exageration. It's not dramatically buggier than Fatigue Madden.