NHL 26/Future Titles with TSN
Since the change from NBC to Generic in NHL 20, people wanted an authentic broadcasting experience, I like the new scoreboard change for now but in future NHL games we want a new authentic broadcasti...
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I think the hard part is the security length of contracts the NHL has with their broadcasts. Like if there isn't a super long deal in place for broadcasting it might not be a good idea to add real broadcasts. I believe NBA 2K uses TNT and with the NBA moving on from them it will be interesting to see what NBA 2K26 will look like and/or be lacking.
But if I could have any real broadcasting it would be from the TNT group but getting people like Gretzky and such to add stuff to a video game would probably be really costly and maybe they have no interest in it.
But very solid write-up and ideas. Thanks for the feedback.
I think that is always going to be an issue for the, as I often call it "forgotten child" of sports. Contracts are constantly switching over and getting a new announcer and new personalities for the game costs money. The game is selling probably a total of 1m copies (if that) and in the grand scheme of things, it's not a lot when you consider everyone and everything that you have to pay for from the people that make the game to the commentary people that are in it.
True, cool idea, but the contracts could get messy really quick. I mean we saw some staff swap outs in the hockey broadcasting world this summer.
Sports games have been using actual commentators since the 90s, dude. Considering that sports games make SO MUCH MORE MONEY than they used to with the addition of microtransactions, surely they can afford to handle licensing fees.
I'm sick of this Cybalski dude. I'm sorry but it just sounds like amateur-hour.
