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

Tags: consoles, cull, ea_sports, madden_09, PC, PS3, Wii, xbox_360

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4 Comments » Wade Larson on April 7, 2008 4:17 pm ZOMG ITS TEH DEATH OF PC GAMING!!1!… again. 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….!! madpuppy on April 8, 2008 1:38 am hear! hear! 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. RSS feed for comments on this post. Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.