Could Sega just tap outta sports games...

**SEGA (JP:7964) DOWN, MORGAN SAYS NFL GAME OFF TO BAD START**

Videogame publisher Sega Corp down 6.84 percent or 180 yen at 2,450 yen after Morgan Stanley cut its target price on the stock to 3,800 yen from 4,500 yen due to a disappointing start for sales of the "Sega Sports NFL 2K3" American football simulation game.

"August sales for the game only came in at about 150,000 units. Considering the company initially shipped over one million copies, we would have hoped for at least 400,000 or 500,000 sold," said Morgan Stanley analyst Shunji Yamanishi.

In contrast, Yamanishi said Sega competitor Electronic Arts Inc (ERTS) had sold more than one million copies of its "Madden NFL 2003" game, well outpacing Sega's performance.

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/tools/quo...8A025AB928A%7D

Sega needs money. This game tanked. Bad.

I fart in EA's general direction.

Is sick when one considers that NFL2K3 is by far the better game than that EA drivel.

I really don't understand why it sold so poorly... the sales of previous versions were so high... (I don't know about 2k2's though)

Bah! I thought SEGA should have given up on sports a long time ago. Sports games are, almost as a rule, shitty.

Didn't DC 2k1 outsell PS2 Madden?


I just can't understand the casual "gamer." :(

Sega can do no wrong. These reports are obviously lies concocted by Electronic Farts.

I bought neither. But my bro always buys both. I think he is kind of wierd, but he likes both equally.

Sega sold 144,000 units of its NFL 2K3 American football game in the U.S. in August, versus sales of 1.16 million of Electronic Arts' Madden NFL 2003 game, said Jay Defibaugh, an analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston Securities (Japan) Ltd., citing a monthly industry survey.

SEGA needs a catchy name. people say "madden is awesome" and you know what they are referring to. saying "nfl2k3" just makes me tired.