will NHL 24 be on PC this year?

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Thanks for the input. I'm not involved in this so I don't have all the details why, but I assure you this has had thorough discussion by the team. If it were feasible to do and if there was a big enough audience to warrant all the work that goes in to bringing the game to PC, it would have been done. 

Bringing the game to PC means moving the team off the console version to work strictly on the PC game. That, in itself, isn't a matter of copying the code to PC and calling it good. There would be a ton of testing and modifying of code involved. There needs to be infrastructure as well. PC servers need to be launched and crossplay needs to be added. Purchasing points needs to go through a different payment system than the Xbox/PS so that needs to be developed. We have to build support for advisors so they can assist with player issues. The majority of tech issues are from PC players and there's a big cost associated with supporting them. This also means a lot of documentation and policies get written to handle those. An anti-cheat system would also need to be built. Support for various controllers as well as making sure the game runs on a different PC set ups, different graphics cards, processors, etc. There could be licensing involved as well.

These are just a few of the tasks that would need to be done. Putting the console version on hold while we spend time and resources on a PC version that will have a fraction of the audience the console version has just isn't worth it in the end. I think a more realistic scenario is getting the game supported by a cloud gaming service where you can play the console version through a PC. I definitely get that it's easy to think moving the game to PC is a simple process, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Again, if it were worth it, it would have been done.