Tiger Woods hasn't had the best year, and things aren't getting any better as the recent scandals that rocked his personal life are being blamed for poor sales of EA's latest Tiger Woods PGA Tour title.
Electronics Arts released Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 last month, but sales for the video game are poor compared to sales from last year's version. GamesIndustry.biz reports that U.S. sales for Tiger Woods PGA were down 68 percent compared to last year's game, which was released in the same month.
Though there could be a number of reasons for the decline (last year's version shipped with Wii Motion Plus and this year's iteration isn't all that different anyway), Doug Creutz of Cowan & Company blames Woods' tumultuous personal life for the sharp drop, and even goes as far as to say the golfer's actions could have permanently damaged the franchise.
"Although this is probably due in part to the fact that last year's version shipped bundled with Nintendo's new MotionPlus controller, we are concerned that Woods' scandal woes may have permanently damaged the sales potential of what we believe to be EA's third most important sports franchise, behind Madden and FIFA," he wrote in a note to investors.
Would the Tiger Woods scandal put you off buying the game?
So then you wouldn't care if your partner cheated on you, as long as they were good at sports? "So what", right?
Apparently it just couldn't be considered that the game just simply sucks and nobody is interested in 11 iterations of basically the same golf game. I owned 2 consecutive versions of this game before and I was turned off at such minimal change between versions yet paying top-dollar each time...no thanks
Its like any sports game. FIFA 11 is one of the best selling sports games of all time, and so was FIFA 10, and FIFA 09, etc. And yet it is likely to continue to be one of the most selling sports games ever. But is it really any different in terms of gameplay from year to year? No.
I'm off by an entire year. Oh well. Wonder what makes the edit button appear sometimes but not all the time.
I wonder about the same thing...but don't worry about the ADS here however as they seem to work a little TOO WELL!...My favorite is the modal-AD that to close it you have to click on font that is about 6 pixels big and so close to the AD in hopes you miss and strike them some money!
and that is exactly how the board meeting went down on that announcement
Tom's Hardware has edit functionality.
Tom's Guide does not.
To be honest, I was disappointed. It seemed to me that the developers were lazy. The game's layout is poor and it's buggy in general.
Not to mention they got rid of David Feherety doing commentary...
I don't think that's his point. He is saying the guy had an affair why should anyone but his wife be concerned with it. I don't care that he had an affair, don't care if you had an affair, it doesn't affect my life.
If I was into golf I would buy the game, don't care what Tiger or any of the other golfers featured in the game do in their private lives.