Last week, Electronic Arts officially announced and dated Madden 2009. Oddly enough, the press release made no mention of a possible PC release. This led fans to speculate that a PC edition of the 2009 football game series was not picked up for development.

Sure enough, there will not be a PC version of Madden this year. In a post on his official blog, EA Sports president Peter Moore explained the reasoning behind the decision.

We knew that our decision to not develop this year’s Madden for the PC would be an unpopular decision in some circles. 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.

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