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KidShowtime1867's avatar
KidShowtime1867
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2 years ago

Re: Looks like 24 is going to be on 4 consoles

Man.. that really bums me out. An already depleted development team having to spread focus across two generations of consoles is disheartening. It's hard to imagine any substantive changes being made when they're having to keep in mind the technological limitations on last-gen. If they are separating the engines, then this means the small dev team would be split into two smaller camps. 

I thought '24 would've been a rip-the-band aid-off approach to current-gen, but clearly marketing wants to continue to tap into the last-gen market. It's going to result in yet another stale NHL product with primary focus being HUT.

I understand there will be changes, but from my perspective, the changes could be far more advanced if the focus was on current-gen.

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  • PlayoffError's avatar
    PlayoffError
    Hero
    2 years ago
    @KidShowtime1867 Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The PS4 came out just a couple of months after NHL 14. The next fall was the last time there was a real "new" NHL game for the PS3 ( Legacy the year after was pretty bare-bones in terms of any kind of upgrade from NHL 15 ). We're now approaching three years since the current gen consoles came out.

    There are a couple of caveats. The current gen consoles were pretty hard to get for a lot of people until this past year. It's also a lot easier to develop for both the current and previous gen consoles at the same time then it was in the past ( as long as you're not trying to take advantage of the current gen upgrades ).

    The problem with continuing to want to put out the same game for both generations is ( as you said ) that they're really limiting what they can do in terms of moving the franchise forward.
  • par_metra's avatar
    par_metra
    Seasoned Adventurer
    2 years ago

    @KidShowtime1867, if you look at the number of players online on the Xbox One and on the Xbox Series, you will see that there are about 1 thousand more people playing in the past-generation. And this means that it would be mean to leave an entire army of fans without their favorite game.
    It would be absolutely cool if there was a single version of the game, like NHL 21. But Technology moves forward, so there was a division, unfortunately.

  • TTZ_Dipsy's avatar
    TTZ_Dipsy
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    Another year I need to dip in quality so I can play with my buddy and a larger playerbase, sigh.

    Since they didn't have to use resources on new features and the like, hopefully some legacy bugs have been fixed and some X factors were tweaked...

  • KidShowtime1867's avatar
    KidShowtime1867
    Hero
    2 years ago
    @par_metra wrote:

    @KidShowtime1867, if you look at the number of players online on the Xbox One and on the Xbox Series, you will see that there are about 1 thousand more people playing in the past-generation. And this means that it would be mean to leave an entire army of fans without their favorite game.
    It would be absolutely cool if there was a single version of the game, like NHL 21. But Technology moves forward, so there was a division, unfortunately.

    That's a good point. However, I feel those numbers can be misleading. There's no way to tell the number of players on XBOX ONE that are actually XBOX Series X/S and only playing that version because their club has players on old gen. 

    But yea, it's clear EA is gun-shy about pulling the plug on old-gen due to still having a seemingly satisfying number of players still there. I can't help but think HUT is to blame , but I always want to blame HUT for everything.

  • CleanHeart's avatar
    CleanHeart
    2 years ago

    Man they truly love selling the same product with different covers.

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