Madden 09 not coming to PCs @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on April 03, 2008

News: Peter Moore lays down the reasons why.

EA recently announced the first details of Madden NFL 09, but they also announced that for the first time in twenty years, the latest update to the series will not appear on the PC. It is, however, still coming to the PS2, PS3, PSP, DS, Wii and Xbox 360.

Here's what EA Sports head honcho Peter Moore had to say about the cancellation of the PC version on his blog. He blames the "very serious business challenges" inherent in the PC platform:

We knew that our decision to not develop this year's Madden for the PC would be an unpopular decision in some circles. But I'll reiterate what I said a couple of weeks ago in this spaceЕthe PC presents some very serious business challenges to us in the sports category, particularly because so many of you all are playing your favorite sports games on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. We are committed to shipping a limited number of our games on the PC this year, but we've also had to cut a few of our games from the platform. We do have ideas for how to revitalize the PC for sports games and the types of games that are best suited to the platform, and we'll continue to explore those.

We'll have more on all things Madden soon.