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Wii Sports is a problem for EA

Ben Parfitt

by Ben Parfitt
Tuesday, November 25th 2008 at 11:44AM GMT

Peter Moore, the outspoken boss of EA Sports, has admitted that the publisher has had trouble establishing its annual sports franchises on Nintendo’s Wii – a challenge it pins on the massively popular Wii Sports.

EA’s most recent Madden title sold over two million units on Xbox 360, PS3 and PS2 combined in North America last August, whilst only 100,000 units were sold on Wii.

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Tags: Nintendo , ea , fifa , wii , madden , sports , moore , tiger , woods

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