Madden 09 Not Coming to PCs, Peter Moore Offers Little Insight
Posted by Chris on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 at 12:08 am under Computer, Electronic Arts, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Games, Madden
A curious omission was made last week by EA Sports when they announced the release date for this year’s Madden NFL 09 and revealed some of the details on NFL Head Coach 09 and the 20th anniversary collector’s edition of Madden – there was no word on a PC version. Peter Moore confirmed the news in a post on his EA blog.
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.
Yes, he’s extremely vague in what he said so as to say nothing at all. He doesn’t say Madden is never coming back to PC, but he also doesn’t rule out the possibility. Anyone who’s ever tried to pick up your average sports game on PC and tried to play without a controller knows what a mess it is; for everything keyboard and mouse is good for, sports games simply don’t make sense with that interface.
There remains a glimmer of hope, though. I doubt EA would completely abandon the PC sports market, but I really don’t know how they can handle making your standard sports game work on a keyboard and mouse without radically designing the game from the ground up.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 am
[...] Dave Parrack wrote an interesting post today onHere's a quick excerptA curious omission was made last week by EA Sports when they announced the release date for this year’s Madden NFL 09 and revealed some of the details on NFL Head Coach 09 and the 20th anniversary collector’s edition of Madden – there was no word on a PC version. Peter Moore confirmed the news in a post on his EA blog. 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 […] [...]
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:42 am
Big whoop… they always half ass it on thier pc version of these sports games anyway.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 am
exactly as Jose says. Not going to cry over a trash port
August 15th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
bad deal for pc gamers like my self. you peaple that nock pc gameing ,im for sure have not played madden online on the pc or console and no nothing about the sport at all, just like the peaple worikg at ea.
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