Could Sega just tap outta sports games...

[Jay]

They could license Joe Montana's name again...

[Green]

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

Virtua Football?

[EThugg]

Originally posted by mattvanstone
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.

I'm not listening! *plugs ears* Lalalalalalalalalalalala!

[burgundy]

Originally posted by Shinobi128
Didn't DC 2k1 outsell PS2 Madden?

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

I'd guess that's because PS2s weren't widely available until after the 2000 football season was over.

Oh, and Sega shouldn\'t bow out of sports entirely because the NBA2K is both very successful and unparalleled by EA\'s offerings.

[MVS]

Well, sega is owned in football, soccer, hockey, and possibly baseball, I dunno on that last one.

When you ship 1 million, sell 140K, probably another 100 this month, that's a lotta loss. Sports games don't sell assloads for long long time.

[piku]

Owned in hockey? No way in hell, not after NHL2K2. Once they get their act together and polish up the front end stuff the series is going to be gold.

[MVS]

Strictly sales. Does NHL series not sell more than sega's thing?

[piku]

Oh oh sales. Nevermind. NHL2K2's sales were probably shit.

[Viper]

I think a lot of this has to do with Sega Sport's lack of brand name recognition amongst "mainstream" gamers. EA have been selling them sports games on multiple formats for years, but Sega haven't. Give Sega a few years, and with any luck the critical acclaim their sports games receive, along with some decent marketing (I'm not sure this is happening in the US, but I sure hope so) should help boost their reputation amongst the mainstream and allow them to compete with EA on even terms.

[Master]

Here a little tidbit:

ESPN.

On their network, whenever they talk about football games, they reference Madden.

In a special report where they reviewed all three big offerings (Sega, Microsoft, EA) they ranked in as Microsoft having the best game.

Yet, their logo, brand name, commentators, and SOUL are in the Sega Sports games. I'm all for "keeping it real" but they could at least toss a plug for THEIR game once in a while...