Below is a quote on the state of Tigers Woods Golf for the Wii based on his scandels in the past year:
“In an environment of general software declines, Electronic Arts faces particular challenges with its Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchise. First-month sales across all formats have plummeted 68 percent compared to the launch of last year’s installment, and one analyst thinks the athlete’s extracurricular activities might be causing harm to the games.
The golf game, which lends itself well to Wii’s motion controls, has been one of the most successful third-party franchises yet on Nintendo’s console. But since its June 8 launch, the multiplatform Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 saw an 86 percent decline on Wii that Cowen Group analyst Doug Creutz called “particularly catastrophic.”
“Although this is probably due in part to the fact that last year’s version shipped bundled with Nintendo’s new Motion Plus 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,” Creutz says of the athlete, who has struggled with his public image since details of several extramarital affairs surfaced.”
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