will NHL 24 be on PC this year?
I really wish this would come to PC. nice fan base here.
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EA_Aljo
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Community ManagerIt's been explained many times how there is a lot more than just porting the game and doing maintenance. You can read through all the threads to see these conversations. Supporting the game has a very high cost associated with it. This would also take attention away from the console version. Which is where the very high majority of people would be playing.
Yeah we need NHL on PC. NBA live would be nice too. Sports games are extremely popular. Maybe NHL wouldn't be as popular but there's huge demand for basketball. Even old gen fifa 22 sold millions of copies on PC, NBA 2K always sells in millions. So it's just weird when EA ignores PC market when even sony is releasing first party exclusives on PC.
There's literally no reason to not release it on PC. It's not like porting costs a lot of money.
- EA_Aljo
Please read my post earlier on this page. Porting is probably the easier part. There's a lot more involved though.
None of those points apply. There are smaller games ported and they're doing fine. There is demand and there's profit from PC sales. It's just a question if EA wants the money or not.
- EA_Aljo
I guess we can agree to disagree then. Thanks for the input.
I mean it's fine but makes no sense so there's no disagreement, i just don't see the logic. Why there's NBA 2k on PC but not NBA live? Even though demand for NBA is huge. Why there's FIFA and PES? Why PGA is on PC? Why NFL is on PC even though it's the least popular sport in the world with almost zero demand and sells 200k copies? What about MMA? Demand for MMA on PC is huge, fighting games sell very well, MMA would sell millions. WWE, Tennis games are on PC too.
NHL would sell 200-300k copies easily which is more than enough. And let me ask how much copies NHL sells on consoles? It definitely doesn't sell 10 million copies, it isn't a popular sport in general so getting free money from PC seems logical. PS5 and xbox are just mini PC's so porting is very easy, no need to rewrite anything. But i guess this is the reason why NBA live and NHL are absolutely dead. They're ignoring the biggest market.
Really wish EA would get around to bring the NHL series back to the PC. I owned it from nhl 95 till 2006. BUT when the frostbite engine works well on all platforms it wouldn't be that difficult to have a PC release. I don't like NFL, NBA, FIFA, UFC, F1.. Only sport EA has licensing on that I care for is NHL and making me have to buy a console to play hockey isn't happening. It's a shame because there is so much more the NHL franchise could do on a PC... ultrawide support would be awesome, true 4k resolution (not upscaled), higher res texxtures, faster frame rates, etc.. I just hope EA gets it together and releases NHL back to the PC before i'm old and have lost all senality lol
Today Madden 24 was announced and the PC version will finally be on par with the PS5/XSeries consoles. Before this year the PC version of Madden lacked features that the consoles had. So the PC version takes a bit more working things out than a simple port and we have seen so many games have awful PC ports that it's embarrassing.
@KlariskraysNHL wrote:Today Madden 24 was announced and the PC version will finally be on par with the PS5/XSeries consoles. Before this year the PC version of Madden lacked features that the consoles had. So the PC version takes a bit more working things out than a simple port and we have seen so many games have awful PC ports that it's embarrassing.
That's an intriguing development actually. It signals that Madden was developed for PC/PS/XB rather than being developed for PS/XB and ported to PC.
It's a small distinction, but actually quite an important one and might point to one of the features Frostbite. The ability to develop with PC in mind versus developing and then porting.
