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No Madden for PC this year, says Moore

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Wow. Peter Moore's announced on his blog that there won't be a PC version of Madden this year.

"We knew that our decision to not develop this year’s Madden for the PC would be an unpopular decision in some circles," he said. "But I’ll reiterate what I said a couple of weeks ago in this space… the 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."

That is not going to go down well, especially as this is the 20th anniversary year for the franchise. The comments on that post are already getting heated, to say the least. Hardcore Moore tough decision action, right there.

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Patrick Garratt is a games media legend - and not just by reputation. He was named as such in the UK's 'Games Media Awards', the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. After garnering experience on countless gaming magazines, he joined Eurogamer and later split from that brand to create VG247, putting the site on the map with fast, 24-hour a day coverage, and assembling the site's earliest editorial teams. He retired from VG247, and the games industry, in 2017.
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