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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.
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.
- vdubmk712 months agoSeasoned Novice
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.
- EA_Aljo12 months ago
Community Manager
The other sports games also have a significantly higher playerbase just due to the popularity of those sports. Hockey is more of a niche sport. While there are billions of PC gamers, a small fraction of them would be playing a hockey video game.
- JustAGamerOwO12 months agoRising Hotshot
Yes and do you know why people don't want to play hockey game? Surely it's not because the quality of the only hockey game we have? Hell, even I am considering to stop playing and buying it going forward. My experience this year with the game has been worst in decade and that says something. The countless technical issues and when that wasn't enough EA sports dev team added lag to the gameplay month ago and still no word of if it even gets fixed. So no man, people don't want to play your game because it's so bad quality not because the player base is small. If you skipped a year on releasing it and solely focused on the quality of the game then released it polished your sales would skyrocket.
- vdubmk712 months agoSeasoned Novice
dont forget that on this 90 millions console users, a lot of them have pc's + consoles and they will prefer buying it on pc for the performance gains