will NHL 24 be on PC this year?

Look at the most recent EA Sports PGA Tour game that was released a few days ago and see the response from PC players as an indication as to what you would see with a PC release of the NHL series. What you really want is a really well thought out PC release that has all the features, gameplay, modes and everything else that the next gen consoles have but with much better graphics and unlimited FPS. The reality is that you will get at most half of what the next gen consoles get including a ton of extra bugs that will take years to truly iron out because EA puts PC on the backburner. For even more evidence just look at how they are handling Madden for the PC - still treating it like a last generation console with tons of bugs and issues that the next gen console versions have no problems with. 

The fact is for any AAA sports games to come back to the PC and get the love that it deserves - it will take another company/developer to step in and make it happen. There have been a few in the small developer space for football like Maximum Football but there hasn't been anything for hockey and unless some big developer is developing it in complete secrecy... the outlook is extremely grim. 

@misterflugietimewrote:  Look at the most recent EA Sports PGA Tour game that was released a few days ago and see the response from PC players as an indication as to what you would see with a PC release of the NHL series. What you really want is a really well thought out PC release that has all the features, gameplay, modes and everything else that the next gen consoles have but with much better graphics and unlimited FPS. The reality is that you will get at most half of what the next gen consoles get including a ton of extra bugs that will take years to truly iron out because EA puts PC on the backburner.

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All the fans who want a PC version released would demand a version which has the same quality and standards as the console version. Otherwise there is no point for EA to even make a PC version. I remember the last PC version that was released back in 2008. It was just a “copy paste version” of NHL07, it did not have the "skill stick" which was something new and revolutionary back then, it also lacked many other features compared to the console version.

Either, EA has to make a quality PC version. If not, then they shouldn't bother to make one either.

Lol I think you're gonna want to raise your standards a little higher than current console quality.

I and many others would be tremendously angry if the team was to take time/resources away from console stuff to just copy it 1:1 -- next year would be a nothing burger and every subsequent year would have improvements split between the two at like ¼ efficiency

NHL on PC
Im gonna make this as simple as possible and HOPE it gains traction.

1. Biggest earning videogames are either multiplatform, pc exclusive or on mobile, this matters because you will reach the widest possible audience.
2. NHL runs on Frostbite 3, making the process of releasing it on PC basically seamless and cost free
3. You want more people to use EA PRO, add more games to your lacking library
4. The vocal minority has raised this time and time again, imagine how many people would buy it if the choice was there? Right now you are asking every purchase to require a console (400 USD) ontop of the original 60, thats a big ask that serves you no good at all.
5. Fans are literally begging you for this, begging to PAY YOU and you are losing customers and goodwill every instalment that passes without a PC release.
6. A PC release not only broadens your customer base, but increases the opportunity to microtransactions and hooking in whales significantly.
7. With the release of steamdeck, NHL would become available to handheld users.
8. The MULTIPLAYER health would do well being cross platform and available to all platforms aswell, this ofcourse includes PC

I am trying to appeal to your biggest concern as a company which is making money, i am trying to speak your language, and i beg any NHL player or fan to PLEASE help push this, again.

This is VERY dystopian, to have to appeal to one thing, and that is how much money they can make, but they don't seem to give a damn any other way, at all.
I am sorry i seem snarky, this just baffles me.

Edit: Merged this post with the already existing thread on this issue. -CM

Why is it they still release just about all other sports on PC?  There is Madden NFL23 , NBA 2K23, etc.  Why not PC?

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@DeMiGoD1988 wrote:

@TTZ_DipsyTo sum this up easy. No, it won’t, no point in even saying wait to the reveal.

I’ll tell you why, to put it as simple as possible. Its simply not worth it, when it comes to sports titles outside of racing its not worth doing, there simply isn’t a market, or there lack of. Its why it was removed in the first place and seriously, nothing has changed at all. They’d be spending more money on resources for PC and it wont make their money back.

Its a business decision and until sports picks up on pc it’ll remain that way.

Having NHL on pc is the least requested thing or responded to thing by the community out of everything. Fact is those who buy any sports title has a console as is and therefore the game is accessible to them. This also eliminates unfair cross platform advantages that PC would obviously get and since the market is small it would have to have cross platform to survive otherwise you’d barely get any online games, and if you did i dare say you’d get a server thats lagging and queue times would be insane.

So no, its not.

It is what it is, once people accept this the sooner the better, its always the same small people who keep asking every year. Its the definition of insane, trying the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

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@NewfieRockin 

Because those games are vastly more popular to warrant it

So I searched the forums and I guess they've all been closed because I cannot comment on them. But why is it that EA uses the excuse that they need a good player base to bring a game to PC and or Switch? Only then when they attempt it they bring an awful port and keep bring the same game each year with a different name? Look at Switch, different number in Fifa games but "Legacy" edition each time. EA couldn't be bothered to try and hide it there like they've tried in the past on all other sport games. I have been wanting an NHL game on PC or Switch forever. I want it portable. I still play NHL 2007 on PSP because it's the best we have available. It's like how about you actually give PC a proper NHL game and see how it does? Maybe try a few years for stats sake. Or at the very least bring an arcade style NHL game out like your 3v3 to PC and see the impact. You have NHL 94 floating around on Playstation and Xbox. BRING THAT OVER. I mean you keep saying you don't see the player base for it but don't attempt it either. How do you actually know until you ACTUALLY try? I would absolutely love to play NHL on my Steam Deck. That's like a dream to have it portable again on a sweet handheld. Ranting done. Thanks for scrolling by.

Edit: Merged post with the already existing thread on this issue. -CM

@mtuwolverine

Thanks for reaching out. I appreciate you took the time to share your thoughts. As far as not having a PC version goes, this has to do with numerous reasons that have been detailed many times. Basically, there's a small hockey video game PC playerbase. There also is a very large cost associated with releasing and supporting the game on PC. We'd have to put less focus on the console version to release a PC version so the console version would most likely be held back. Hopefully, we'll see more advancements with cloud gaming so the console version can be played through PCs. That is probably more likely to happen before a true PC version is released.

That's why I also just asked if the NHL 94 game that's on playstation and Xbox could be brought over? That should be a whole lot easier than NHL 23 eh? It would give PC gamers an NHL game to play and maybe you'll see what the community is like on PC then.