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EA Sports Games Axed for PC, And It’s All Your Fault

by Kev Lochun on April 7, 2008 at 4:06 pm

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Madden ‘09 is the first casualty of the cull, which is apparently because we love our consoles too much.

We had wondered whether last week’s decision not to ship Madden for PC might be an isolated incident, but not so. Speaking on his blog, EA Sports head Peter Moore said:

The PC presents some very serious business challenges to us in the sports category, particularly because so many of you all are playing your favourite sports games on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii.

He goes on to say a limited number of titles will be released on PC this year, but without an indication of which ones, and whether that means they’re slowly winding down or just keeping the few bestsellers.

Meanwhile, if you are at this moment spewing vitriol or letting the tears cascade down your face, at least there’s a caveat; PC appears to be getting a suspension rather than a lifelong ban.

Moore promises:

We do have ideas for how to revitalise the PC for sports games and the types of games that are best suited to the platform, and we’ll continue to explore those.

Of course he’s yet to respond to the outraged Madden community about whens and hows.

His comments are buried in this post over at EA

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4 Comments »

  1. Wade Larson
    on April 7, 2008 4:17 pm

    ZOMG ITS TEH DEATH OF PC GAMING!!1!… again.

  2. shajir
    on April 7, 2008 10:49 pm

    No chance of death for the PC Gaming.. PC Gaming was the best, is the best and will remain the best… Come on EA, speak out the truth why you don’t want to publish sports games on the PC…? Don’t tell that you don’t have competitive people to develop games for the PC, please….!!

  3. madpuppy
    on April 8, 2008 1:38 am

    hear! hear!

  4. Wade Larson
    on April 8, 2008 4:59 am

    Nah, PC gaming will be fine. It will still be the platform of choice for MMOs and RTS, and there are many respectable shooters on the PC. I never played sports games on the PC so I guess this really doesn’t affect me (I don’t play sports games much to begin with) but it seems logical to shift focus to consoles if thats where the sales are.

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