EA loses market share for it Basketball title.

by **rrenn007** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:53 am

Hey All,

I found this story on yahoo, I'm glad EA finally is seeing the bubble burst!

Deutsche Bank analyst Jeetil Patel said in a client note that the video game industry faced an easy year-over-year comparison since September 2005 sales were down 24 percent, and that last month's sales were down 3 percent from September 2004.

Patel expects publishers to beat his fiscal second-quarter estimates, but said that "more than the good news has already been priced in."

He noted that EA's "NBA Live 07" basketball game sell-through fell 10 percent, while Take-Two's 2K Sports' competing "NBA 2K7" game sell-through doubled off a much smaller base. Patel noted that EA, the world's biggest video game publisher known for its sports franchises, has seen its September basketball market share fall to 64 percent from 86 percent a year ago.

In a recent interview with Reuters, EA Chief Executive Larry Probst addressed concerns about the company's high-profile basketball game: "We will make some changes so we can bring a higher quality product and improve it next year."

Here's the entire link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061013/tc_ ... mes_npd_dc

by **el badman** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:56 am

That's a pretty big drop for EA. :shock:

Hopefully that'll teach them to respect their customers a bit more and to stop doing half-assed jobs, cuz they have some serious competition now...

by **stalky** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:29 am

I'm looking forward for ea's bankruptcy :twisted:

by **dragonkillerg** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:06 am

now wat are the pc going to use to play basketball? hope 2k makes it! :mrgreen:

but die ea die! haha :lol:

by **bigh0rt** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:38 am

stalky wrote:I'm looking forward for ea's bankruptcy

You're gonna be looking forward for quite some time then.

by **Christopherson** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:12 am

yeah, remember folks, ea lives off of the madden cash cow, everything else is just something to do. i believe madden sold like 1o million copies opening week.

by **el badman** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:25 am

yeah, remember folks, ea lives off of the madden cash cow, everything else is just something to do. i believe madden sold like 1o million copies opening week.

Well, the Battlefield series counts for something too...

stalky wrote:
I'm looking forward for ea's bankruptcy

You're gonna be looking forward for quite some time then.

Yeah, not gonna happen for a while...

by **Fitzy** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:59 am

at least this might wake them up and make them realise what a shit effort 07 was and make the patch really good

by **rrenn007** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:06 am

On 2nd reading of the quote, it seems like same old political bs, oh we'll do better next year...yada,yada,yada. Let's hope internally, they are putting the pressure on the developers to test the game next year.

by **Jowe** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:44 am

Let's hope they all get fired, or throw some money at some 2k guys to defect.

by **maceo24** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:30 pm

I just say switch the teams, or create a new one. The base of this game has some strong points, animation is decent, graphics are livable for now, and the controls, when they do actually work, are IMO better than 2k7. I say maybe give the project to another studio for a year, let these guys take a month off to reflect and stew on the irreparable damage theyve done to the franchise, and then let them start on a new version of live. Prolly be the best basketball game ever made.

Either that, or start docking each individual employee 100 dollars for every quarter point that ea's stock drops until the patch is released. Guaranteed it be done by the end of next week.

by **SpinFire** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:06 pm

Ah ha, in your face EA! I'll never buy anymore of your NBA Live series.

by **Fitzy** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:19 pm

SpinFire wrote:Ah ha, in your face EA! I'll never buy anymore of your NBA Live series.

i think that sums it all up (Y)

by **furbysaur** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:44 pm

The one to really blame are the executives or the president of EA. They wanted to release the game as early as possible to make profit. They should hire hundreds of workers, much in quality control.

The new features are good but the stupid careless errors (bugs), make the game lousy.

Andrew, on your visit to EA to beta test this game, did it have these kind of bugs? maybe the bugs came on some last minute changes before the release date.

PS.

I think the executives of EA should follow the footsteps of Sony PS3 executives. Instead of releasing their product at an earlier date, they waited until they perfected it. (man, ps3 should be good so that i wont eat my words. hehe)

by **thegreatdivide** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:03 pm

Im already more than a little concerned about next years version...

Hopefully the bomb getting dropped on the production team isnt too bad or else we'll have new guys trying another new direction with the game.
Or worse off, maybe no pc version at all...

Oh well, 2k has my attention this year...again.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:45 pm

furbysaur wrote:Andrew, on your visit to EA to beta test this game, did it have these kind of bugs? maybe the bugs came on some last minute changes before the release date.

As I've said before I didn't notice them but that's not to say they weren't there. I've touched on that here.

by **BHD** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:21 pm

baldus_2004 wrote:yeah, remember folks, ea lives off of the madden cash cow, everything else is just something to do. i believe madden sold like 1o million copies opening week.

And don't forget the Need For Speed series

by **notageek** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:58 pm

See right now people are asking should I get Live 07 or should I get 2K7.

Going by the EA trend this question will no longer need to be asked in the future.

by **NBARulezzz** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:56 pm

NBA2K7 sux

by **BHD** on Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:53 am

NBARulezzz wrote:NBA2K7 sux

Cause you can't play it on pc?

by **Versa_Playa** on Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:35 am

OR maybe he just doesn't like it. Which is hard to believe. I mean, I gotta give 360 2k7 credit but the current gens are exactly the same. Except for the signature stuff. 8-)

by **rrenn007** on Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:57 am

Andrew wrote:
furbysaur wrote:Andrew, on your visit to EA to beta test this game, did it have these kind of bugs? maybe the bugs came on some last minute changes before the release date.

As I've said before I didn't notice them but that's not to say they weren't there. I've touched on that here.

Hey Andew, did EA ever say anything about how they test the game at all? Do they go through a full 25 seasons and see what issues come about from that? It would be impossible to test 12 min games for 82 games and 25 seasons, but we found these bugs within days...

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:45 pm

No, they didn't really talk about that. We did see the QA section on our tour though.

by **furbysaur** on Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:32 pm

Andrew wrote:No, they didn't really talk about that. We did see the QA section on our tour though.

and how many were they?

EA loses market share for it Basketball title.

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