Christopher Dring crunches the numbers and brings you the winners and losers for September.
The success of core games such as FIFA 11, Halo: Reach, Dead Rising 2, F1 2010 and Mafia II has seen Xbox 360 claim a huge chunk of the software market in terms of value. Microsoft’s machine accounted for almost half the money generated by video game sales last month. Although over 20 per cent behind Xbox 360, Sony’s PlayStation 3 still performed strongly with a 28.2 per cent share.
Online support for a number of 2010 EA Sports titles is set to end next month.
NBA Jam ? w00t 0_o Thankfully I don't buy any sports games. I hope they are talking about NBA Jam disc based version not the On fire downloadable one
I can understand the need to shut down servers. But doing it for games that only came out last year is a bit ridiculous.
I normally try and defend EA on here because I don't think they are as bad as many people make them out to be but but this would annoy me if I owned any of these games.
They're probably following 2k's lead. 2k has already shut down nba 2k12 servers. Which means the average life expectancy u can get from playing nba 2k13 (if u were to buy it now) would be about 10 months. Don't expect to play online longer than that. That means there product is a NO buy for me. If they offered LAN option on the pc side u could always use Tunngle to play online, but they don't so there's no way to play online.
wow they shut down 2K12 servers already???
at least EA gives people 2-3 years to play online, wow. nobody can complain about EA now
and to be fair to EA they shut servers down based on what percentage of people still play online. I remember them saying that they shut servers down which make up less than 1% of traffic across all EA servers, at least that's what they say.
"nobody can complain about EA now"
- torchic
Yes we can. 2k sports are also on my "no buy" list.
"The decision to retire older EA titles is never easy." That's also what they said when they shut down the servers for BF2: MC.
I think maybe with the release of pay for your own server on BF3 this is what EA might continue to use for all games giving an option for people who want to play it online.
I'm so sick of EA and all the BS, i'm sick of a lot of publishers anymore.
Mr. Kennedy of TheKoalition.com writes:
If you have been a frequent visitor to TheKoalition.com then you might have seen our initial piece for our “Focus On FIFA” series. Here is part 2.
Manager Mode
The staple of FIFA’s offline play. A considerably important feature for the FIFA video game franchise. Over the years it has had it’s ups and downs…plenty of downs. Here are a few:
This week, download select EA Sports games for $20 or less. Plus, you’ll get the same amount you spend back in promotional credit to buy more EA Sports Games. Customers who buy Fifa Soccer 2012 for $20 can get Fifa Manager 2012, Fifa Soccer 2011, and Fifa Soccer 2010 for free.
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Microsoft’s machine accounted for
almost half the money generated by
video game sales last month"
Wow, talk about dominance. Xbox 360 gamers contributed almost half the money into the gaming industry last month. Now thats what I call putting your money where your mouth is