Is the PC Community being Ignored By EA?
Every year the amount of people who want NHL on PC grows and every year its disappointment. Is the PC Community being Ignored By EA? as a person who moved fully to PC this year and as part of the PC ...
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EA puts out survey's every year asking customers what platforms they primarily game on.
Those surveys are unspecific to NHL, a survey tailored directly for the PC release of an NHL game would provide the accurate data they need. Asking "what platforms do you primarily game on" and "would you be interested in playing NHL on PC" are two completely different things and you cannot extract data from the surveys you are referencing and claim it as insufficient data to support a PC release because its not asking that question, its asking where do you primarily play.
No it really wouldn't because it is much easier to click a button saying "I support this thing" vs "I will spend 70USD/100CAD to buy this thing". If you don't think that NFL has a bigger fanbase than the NHL, then you are living a fantasy. Here are the numbers via Sports Business Journal via links for you to see it for yourself but Ill just talk about the most recent data I found for 2020 - 2023:
Avg viewers NHL : NHL
2020: 391K / 2021: 467K / 2022: 465K / 2023: 504K
Avg Viewers NFL: NFL
2020: 15.4M / 2021: 17.1M / 2022: 16.7M / 2023 17.9M
And before you make the argument of something like "well there are more games in the NHL then there are in the NFL", I'll say okay.... silly argument but I'll play along. So lets take the NHL numbers and multiply them by 5 (16 games vs 82, im rounding to 80)
NHL: 2020: 1.95M / 2021: 2.335M / 2022: 2.325M/ 2023: 2.52M
NFL: 2020: 15.4M / 2021: 17.1M / 2022: 16.7M / 2023 17.9M
Okay that didn't work what about if we take the NFL's numbers and divide them by 5. (Less games attracts more fans to watch theory)
NHL: 2020: 391K / 2021: 467K / 2022: 465K / 2023: 504K
NFL: 2020: 3.08M / 2021: 3.42M / 2022: 3.34M / 2023: 3.58M
So even in the flipped scenario of the NHL having only 16 games and the NFL having 82:
NHL: 2020: 1.95M / 2021: 2.335M / 2022: 2.325M/ 2023: 2.52M
NFL: 2020: 3.08M / 2021: 3.42M / 2022: 3.34M / 2023: 3.58M
THE NFL HAS AT LEAST 30% MORE VIEWERSHIP YOY.
and this is a JOE SCHMOE doing the research for free. Now imagine the people who are getting paid big bucks to do the research on whether or not it is valuable for them to make a PC PORT for NHL when the Madden one has completely flopped?
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