Madden 09 has gone gold.

[cashpath]

EA has announced that Madden 09 has Gone Gold. What that means is that the game is done being worked on and they are ready to begin actually making the retail copies.

[Kevin71]

Great news, any chance the release date gets moved up?

[cashpath]

Nope the press release still has the release date as Aug 12th
__________________________________
Madden 09 Madden 2009
__________________________________
Through correspondence with producer Phil Frazier I have learned in that sense Madden 09 has not gone gold. The game is completed (no further changes can be made) but has not yet finished certification with Microsoft and Sony. That process can take several weeks. Then the magnitude of the game in terms of production and shipping to be available at all retailers on August 12th has to be factored in.

[Forenci]

Argh, I figured that Madden going gold this early would lead to it being released earlier than usual. Doesn't it usually not go gold until sometime in mid-July? Generally after a game does go gold, and from the sounds of it according to Cash it might not have, it only takes about a month to be released there after. Generally it will take even less than a month.

[cashpath]

Yeah it looks like this was bad info and it hasn't REALLY gone gold yet.

[Steelersfan43]

Its all good, I cant wait to get the game I may even call in sick to work so I can play it all day long.