If Wolfenstein Outsells Madden...
WolfensteinThis isn't news. It's just amusing. But it's so outlandishly amusing, that it's well worth your time.
If you were to mention the biggest releases of August, you'd probably put Madden NFL 10 and Batman: Arkham Asylum at the top of the list. Some of you savvy game searchers might add Raven Software's Wolfenstein to the list, but it'd be a distant third...or fourth, or fifth. We really do have high hopes for the latter title, but in reality, it has almost zero chance of outselling the heavy-hitting Madden entry. But do you know what will happen if it does? According to the latest Twitter update from Raven designer Manveer Heir, he has offered to pay for your copy of Wolfenstein if the Nazi and undead-infested shooter somehow manages to sell more copies than EA Sports' blockbuster in the month of August. The official NPD numbers will dictate the final tally, you have to follow Heir on Twitter, this only applies to August, and there's a limit of one copy per customer. He says if you keep your receipt and Wolfenstein outperforms the competition, he'll reimburse you.
C'mon. You gotta admit; this is just plain hilarious. It's a great marketing tactic; although there's almost zero chance of this happening, it's still bound to gain some attention. Wouldn't it be great if we could somehow coerce all those who plan to wait in line at midnight for Madden to buy Wolfenstein instead? The incentive is they'd get that game for free. Hell, maybe they could buy both games at the register, and everyone else could just buy Wolfenstein. Whaddya think?
Related Game(s): Wolfenstein
8/12/2009 John Shepard
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NoSmokingBandit
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 @ 10:03:27 PM
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convergecrew
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 12:40:30 PM
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mexgeo86
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 @ 10:15:23 PM
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King James
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 12:04:05 AM
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Oyashiro
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 12:14:37 AM
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mastiffchild
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 4:29:34 AM
Even RES and FIFA sell better , by comparison, in the US(because of the Mexican/Latino/Italian/German etc mmigrant populations) than Madden can in, say, the EU.
For the first time ever, IIRC, I didn't know any of my English mates who bought the Madden game so I think, if anything, Gridiron's popularity is on the wane outside of the US-we used to get lots of live NFL games in the 80's/90's but now it's only on satellite/paid for channels over here so I don't think the future's bright. Ourside of the US we don't always get just ow big the US Football season is-and by association Madden either and I feel the PES/FIFA axis is the nearest thing to it gamewise-annually released when a player update would be better most years til they actually properly updated the engine/gameplay.
I realise the offer will be NPD only, mind, as here in the UK I expect it wold be pretty tight-though I suppose the fans of Wolfenstein could be even fewer than the fans of Madden in the UK-certainly I've heard tons of US barmen this year! They always get huge abuse when the footies on and they call it "soccer"-even now.
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jaybiv
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 10:38:21 AM
EA makes 90% of the Madden sales in the U.S., which makes it's Madden sales numbers all the more impressive.
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sticklife
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 @ 10:31:16 PM
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coldbore
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 @ 10:33:11 PM
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LegendaryWolfeh
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 @ 11:11:58 PM
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Victor321
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 @ 11:09:42 PM
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It was hella fun, and boy, did I handle the experience maturely ^.^ (no nightmares man! cuz my cousin had lol).
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Geobaldi
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 12:00:06 AM
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mastiffchild
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 4:32:29 AM
At worst we should only pay a fraction of the cost of a proper game when all they do is update the managers and playing staff or tweak a mode or two!
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fluffer nutter
Friday, August 14, 2009 @ 1:56:33 AM
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pyrobomber70
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 12:09:49 AM
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Imagi
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 1:46:53 AM
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ThugNificent101
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 1:55:45 AM
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while it most certainly wont happen, its a good way to help boost sales in wake of games like madden and batman - even if only slightly.
amusing attempt, i really do hope this game does well...
i think it would have been a bit more effective if they had said this earlier, but a small boost is better than no boost i guess.
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Qubex
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 2:58:02 AM
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Q!
"i am home"
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___________
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 3:30:32 AM
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wolfenstien is my most anticipated title for the month.
but only because i hate madden games, and batman AA isent out here till september 3rd.
i wish sigma 2 and operation flashpoint dragon rising would hurry up and come out.
if there both not out by october 1st im not getting them, ill be to busy with uncharted 2.
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Alienange
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 3:36:16 AM
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Deleted User
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 6:09:35 AM
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ShadowRunner
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 6:45:04 AM
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Diggity Dan
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 7:55:13 AM
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That has about as much a chance of happening as monkeys flying out of my a$$.
Still very amusing. I hope the Wolfenstein game is worthwhile. Definitely waiting for reviews before even renting it.
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kevinater321
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 8:28:14 AM
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Mr Bitey
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 9:02:45 AM
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BeezleDrop
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 11:13:24 AM
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Hezzron
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 @ 9:52:30 PM