EA Sports announces across-the-board price cuts

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Originally Posted by Kraftwerks

can anyone point me to where the sales figures of the ea and espn games are listed?
I'd love to see how they are really doing. What about past sales? Does anyone know if the ESPN games sales have grown big enough to cover the loss they're taking by selling for $30 cheaper than last year? (you know, with actual, factual proof, not just that EA or Sega is teh suck)

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But you don't nessiarilly have factual proof that they are taking a loss on selling at 19.99? I doubt they are. Quantity makes up for quality of profit and I am pretty sure they're making money at 19.99, just not so much.

Honestly, just because games coming out at 40 - 50 is status quo doesn't mean that's how much they have to charge. They've probably seen more profit from this and gained more mind share. I'd personally like to see more figures. Reguardless, EA was making MUCH more money on their games, and also sold more, but they're most conserned with mindshare. They lose that, then Sega can begin chargeing a little more each year. It's established that people will pay 50 for a game they want. When enough people find that ESPN is the game they want - THEN EA will be screwed (screwed in the sensce that they will be making just less than they're used to). It's more of a long term strategy, seeing as how VC/Sega/TT are taking in as much if not more money on the ESPN games as they (VC and Sega) are used to, they have only mindshare to gain, which can help them tremendously in the long run. Just a well played hand really.

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Originally Posted by Dipstick

Did I miss the Visual Concepts golf game to compete with Tiger Woods? Damn, probably plays fairly damn well too.

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As many other people in this thread have pointed out, these price cuts are in direct response to the inroads Sega/VC/Take Two have made with their budget sports titles (only to have people realize that these titles are easily on par with EA's offerings). Hence no price cuts on Tiger Woods 2005 or Nascar 2005 or whatever other sports titles they have.

Maybe if Hot Shots Golf 5 comes out at twenty bucks. :sweat:

-Dippy

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Yes, I know. I still want a TW'05 price drop.

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Originally Posted by haohmaru

That's the first one I was looking @ too. Damn.

Hot Shots Fore!, however, is fucking ROYALLY hard as you get better. What a pain in the ass.

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I haven't played Hot Shots Fore! I guess I'll have to check it out.

:tu: Visual Concepts.

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Originally Posted by Sl1p

You two think tanks will have to try harder than agreeing with my posts to get me banned again. Sorry.

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Do you like being banned?

Why can't you just control yourself from saying something like this bullshit you say in this thread?

Why sl1p? You've been around far to long to be getting warnings, but here's another one because I'm way to nice,


Stop.

For those who prefer their posts bullshit-free;

September

1 PS2 MADDEN NFL 2005 288,747
5 PS2 ESPN NFL 2K5 203,101

3 XBX ESPN NFL 2K5 128,226
5 XBX MADDEN NFL 2005 102,886

August

1 PS2 MADDEN NFL 2005 1,112,588
2 PS2 ESPN NFL 2K5 448,433

1 XBX MADDEN NFL 2005 509,100
2 XBX ESPN NFL 2K5 311,359

July

3 PS2 ESPN NFL 2K5 406,083
3 XBX ESPN NFL 2K5 385,660

Total Madden PS2 sales: 1,401,335
Total ESPN PS2 sales: 1,057,617

Total Madden XBX sales: 611,986
Total ESPN XBX sales: 825,245

Total Madden sales for PS2 and Xbox: 2,013,321
Total ESPN sales for PS2 and Xbox: 1,882,862

For comparison, ESPN NFL Football has sold 213,793 and 198,986 copies for the Xbox and PS2 respectively, for a combined total of 412,779 life to date. On the other hand, Madden 2004 sold 3,410,917 copies on the PS2 alone.

don't forget their is no ESPN on the Cube or GBA. that adds at least a few thousand to madden.

Madden sells 7 copies on the Gamecube.

And it is the GameCube's most successful third party title.

*edit* Ok, I even went to check the GC and GBA sales out of curiosity, and Madden has sold 87,404 in August, and 33,441 in September for the Cube, and it isn't even in the top 15 for either month on the GBA, so I don't know what it's sold for that. So yeah.

Now that's some nice, solid information, exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for when reading debates like this one. Thanks for posting the numbers, it definitely beats the crap out of the "Madden did good but I think Sega did almost as well" type of comments. :)

James

I never said it sold great on the cube. I was just pointing out that ESPN did not have an answer for the sales the cube has.

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Originally Posted by remnant

I never said it sold great on the cube. I was just pointing out that ESPN did not have an answer for the sales the cube has.

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Nobody mentioned the GC sales numbers. They are pretty much irrelivent in this matter.