Alongside the standard 11-on-11-based simulation, Mut 25 coins on the 3DS will also feature five-on-five and season modes. Players will also be being able to tailor playing to their specific level of proficiency using classic, arcade as well as GameFlow call-ins (introduced with this season's multi-platform Madden NFL 25). It will permit players to draw their own games on the touchscreen. It is currently being created at Raleigh through EA North Carolina.

When it launches, Madden NFL Football will be the first entry in the series on the Nintendo portable device since Madden NFL 25. It was released in 2022 for the DS, Madden NFL 25 featured the then-recently removed (and the day after, not-retired) player Brett Favre as the front cover.

The football fever of gamers was evident in September. In September, the NPD Group reported September industry sales figures for the United States today, revealing Madden NFL 25 as the month's top-selling game. The game's sales rose 11 percent compared to the last version. Madden leapt ahead of the game in September.

Another of the top performers in September is Borderlands 2. It landed in the second place for the month and beat the sales of the first month of the first Borderlands with 234 percent. Sales figures specific to the game weren't disclosed.

All in all, sales of software decreased by 14 percent over the last year. NPD Analyst Liam Callahan attributed this downturn to a better selection of new releases that came out at the same time last year, which include Gears of War 3 and Dead Island.

The PC game market for retail was the bright spot of the month, growing by 12 percent over the previous year. The increase was due to the highly-publicized recent launches in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, Guild Wars 2 as well as Diablo III.

Hardware saw the biggest drop in September, soaring 39 percent over the course of the Mut 25 coins for sale in the range of $210.9 million. But, Callahan believes there is an opportunity to be optimistic.