PETITION FOR NHL GAMES TO BE PORTED ON PC
Hello, would you guys be interested in making a petition for NHL games to be ported on PC ? I am seriously tired of EA jumping on every sport games because they know that they can sell you the same 8...
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I get the frustration with not having a game ypu want on your platform of choice, but there's no grand conspiracy here. EA doesn't have an exclusive NHL license. Anyone is free to negotiate a license with the NHL and create a competing product.
EA also loves money. If they thought they could make enough profit with a PC port I'm sure they'd make one.
^ What he said, simple numbers game. It was spelled out here a year or two ago that porting to PC is not a simple process and the development team is stretched as it is programming and patching for consoles (whether you think so or not). NHL videogames are simply not that popular with the masses - FIFA (EAFC) annually sells around 7-8 mil, Madden 5-6 mil, NHL tops out at around 1 mil. It's simply not worth it for EA to commit more resources to produce a PC version of a game that is low-profit as is.
what you said here is just not valid, I don't know if these numbers are up to date but you are comparing sold games amount that are on consoles + PC vs a game that is only avalaible on consoles and there is about 90 millions ps5 and xbox series sold at the moment and according to the latest available data, there are an estimated 1.86 billion PC gamers worldwide. To really make a fair comparaison, the game would have to release on PC too.
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It's not about the amount of PC gamers though. Hockey is a niche sport. Chances are excellent there isn't a big enough community of PC hockey players that would warrant the tremendous amount of work it takes to make this happen. It would also mean putting the console version of the game on hold while the PC version is developed.
So by your logic, there is more hockey fans in the 90 millions console users vs the 1.86 billion pc gamers ? If it is profitable on console, even by a small margin, it would be even more on pc. Also, putting the game on hold while porting it sounds like an excuse, they do it with all their other sport games.
a random dev made a goofy hockey game and sold 34k copies in the first 8 days with NO marketing at all. Now think about EA actually making their NHL games available on PC. If they still think it would not be profitable, they need to start using their brains. https://gameworldobserver.com/2023/05/22/tape-to-tape-revenue-marketing-steam-hockey-game
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