According to gameIndustry.biz: “The NPD Group has released the US hardware and software sales figures for August 2007, with EA’s Madden NFL ‘08 dominating the charts.The Xbox 360 version of the game was number one, with 896,600 units sold, followed by the PlayStation 2 version, with 643,600 units sold. The PlayStation 3 version of the game sold 336,200 units, which was good enough for fourth place overall.
The Wii, Xbox, and PSP versions of Madden NFL ‘08 were in eleventh, twelfth, and eighteenth place, respectively.
Bioshock, which is atop the charts in other countries, came in third with 490,900 units sold.
Three Wii games–Wii Play, Metroid Prime 3, and Mario Strikers: Charged–took the fifth, sixth, and seventh positions on the charts. Mario Party 8, also for the Wii, was in the ninth spot. (more…)
EA Sports is porting the following games to the Mac:
- Need for Speed: Carbon
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour ‘08
- Madden NFL ‘08
Madden 08 will run at 60 frames per second on the Xbox 360 and 30 frames per second on the PlayStation 3.[4] A new branching animations system will allow dynamic gameplay for the first time in the franchise.[5] Players are no longer locked into animations but are now controlled more by the users.[5] Features of the new animation system include mid-air collisions, big-time, one-handed catches, hurdles, sideline catches and gang tackling.[5] Madden 08 will bring back some features for its online play for example, there will be a return of Season Mode and tournaments held online updated features dubbed Hit Stick 2.0 will allow players to hit high or low by flicking the analog stick up or down.[5] A new fatigue system will be implemented, disallowing users from taking a scrambling quarterback and running around behind the line of scrimmage for very long.[6] Fatigue will also play a factor when cold-weather teams play in hot weather during the early months of the season.[5] Also returning to this years incarnation is the much sought after “co-op” play which had found itself sitting on the sidelines since making the jump to the next-generation consoles. This mode finds players teaming up with a friend and taking on the CPU or two human opponents. –Wikipedia.com