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titus1029

Rising Hotshot

5 months ago

17th year without a PC release

Yep, preorder site only shows PlayStation and Xbox. Huge let down EA, again.

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hiperay

New Ace

5 months ago

Just go look at the steam analytics for Madden since they started putting it on PC… and that playerbase is bigger than NHLs. That’s why they won’t do it. Also 8000 signatures is a lot different than 8000 preorders. One you are just saying I am interested the other is actually putting money down not knowing how it will turn out.

Side note: We are not even counting this factor. How many of those 8000 are people who are still buying the console version every year so it is not an increase in any sales but just someone who is switching where they play the game?

Kushlewskis

Rising Rookie

5 months ago

It doesn't sell great on consoles either. So it's a win win situation for everybody if it would be on PC. More money for EA and people can play NHL finally.

Porting the game would cost pennies. And the market is bigger than NFL. No one outside USA cares about NFL and americans prefer consoles over PC's. While ice hockey is popular worldwide. Same with basketball. NBA 2k is selling like crazy on PC. By cancelling NBA live on PC EA basically said no to 300-500million bucks. Now NHL of course is much less popular sport in general but even if it can only generate 50mil/year it would be a huge win.