Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Totally. Sega's original program and the program for other third-parties was $10 licensing fee per game unit. For EA, they give them a $2 licensing fee per game unit capped at a million units. EA will never pay Sega more than $2 million on any game. Very, very different. But like you said, Ben, this is just an enormous win. That first year, that first version of Madden that comes out on the Genesis, EA and Sega's prediction is that it'll sell 75,000 copies. It ends up selling 400,000 copies. It's just a huge hit for them. This is the exact kind of thing that is not on Nintendo and soon to be the Super Nintendo. EA eventually does bring Madden to the Super Nintendo, but they have a separate studio working on it. They've got the A-team working on the Genesis version, and they've got the B-team working on the Super Nintendo version. The Genesis versions were always better. I remember this as a kid. This is a big reason I was lucky I had the Super Nintendo and the Genesis. I wanted Sonic, but even more, I wanted really good Madden games. Wow, I didn't realize because these days, the Xbox and the PlayStation versions are, I think, equivalent. If there are any hardcore Madden fans out there, they're probably going to come at me with, no, it's way better than this, that, or the other way. FIFA is the same thing, but I didn't realize there was such a difference then. Yeah. Back in the day, they were actually made by different studios. There were some things about the Super Nintendo architecture that limited the frame rate that it could run at. Basically, it was always better on the Genesis.…

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