New EA boss Peter Moore has been giving some insight into the always anticipated football games coming out late this summer. While admitting NFL Head Coach was not that great (no shit), he states the new one will be more interactive then ever. In important and relevant news, he also announced that for the first time in a long time, Madden will not be coming to the PC:
We knew that our decision to not develop this year’s Madden for the PC would be an unpopular decision in some circles. But I’ll reiterate what I said a couple of weeks ago in this space…the PC presents some very serious business challenges to us in the sports category, particularly because so many of you all are playing your favorite sports games on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. We are committed to shipping a limited number of our games on the PC this year, but we’ve also had to cut a few of our games from the platform. We do have ideas for how to revitalize the PC for sports games and the types of games that are best suited to the platform, and we’ll continue to explore those.
That must be the British way of saying we are giving up on PC sports games because very few people play it. I tried playing FIFA once on a PC and it sucked. We will see how much they “explore” sports titles, but it looks like that lineup will be console only from now on.
[via EA]
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Write a Comment»I know a few people who will be pretty pissed off at this. But the fact remains that the PC is such a small percentage of Madden sales. Makes business sense for EA Sports to drop that
The only PC sports game I ever liked was Front Page Sports baseball, by Sierra.
For the most part, sports games play better on consoles.
I rarly play sports games, and I often wonder what the hubbub is about.
i dont really like football games, only because im not that great..I remember sierra, that was like the only company PC games i seemed to ever play..lol
I pretty much only buy Sierra or Blizzard PC games.