Will NHL 21 Come Out For PC?

Please release NHL 21 PC version.
I have been a fan of the NHL series since the late 90’s, however I always used to buy the PC version of the game.
After year 2008/9 I was forced to buy a PlayStation to be able to play the game.
Please bring back this game for PC!

apparently you should not wait for the PC port and you have to buy a console

One thing is for certain tough, I will never buy a Playstation 5 just to play a new EA’s NHL game.
As soon as the new Gen is released (I think PS5 Is set to be released in Nov/Dec) I’m done. After 23 years I’m done.

It’s just not realistic or fun anymore, for example like this year’s version and in 19 I have been playing HUT, and I’m really trying to enjoy it, but the fact of the matter is, that I don’t.
Sports gaming shouldn’t just bee about online gaming and desperately trying to get an 99 OVR Matthews card.

Ok that was a little “off topic”

So, back to the topic of his thread: It’s often claimed that the popularity and the community of EA’s NHL series and hockey in general is not big enough worldwide to justify a PC version release and that a PC version would not be profitable enough for EA (at least this is rumored to be the reason for non PC release among the fans).
Well, a game like Madden have now been released for PC, how can an AM-football game like Madden be released on PC and NHL not?
In Europe nobody even knows anything about AM-football, there is no fanbase or community for AM-football in Europe. So why not release NHL on PC? I just don’t get it.

(PS: Moderator, please don’t delete my post, the first lines in this post may be a little “of topic” but the rest should be ok)

@Knuten21 

Gotta consider Esports wasn't around when the offline hockey games were running wild; a 99 Matthews is very important in today's market and EA caters to this quite well. If people stopped buying packs like sheep you would get your offline utopia.

Simply put, American football is more popular than hockey overall and sells more so a PC release is justified

Americans go insane for football the same way Europeans do for soccer

@TTZ_Dipsy

I have played EA sports NHL since the mid 90’s, and none of the games back then had an online feature, only NHL98 and 99 had an online feature, but nobody cared anyway because the internet capacity was crap back then.

I know that EA sports earn more revenue on HUT then what they do by selling copies of the actual game. Besides, introducing the game to PC gamers would at least open up the game to a whole new market. The last time NHL was released for PC was in 2008, the PC gaming community have exploded since then. It can also generate even more revenue by introducing the game to new PC gamers, more HUT packs and more revenue for EA.

Regarding the popularity of the sport it doesn’t justify if the game should be released on PC or not.
Ice hockey is the national sport in Canada, in the US only AM Football and basketball is bigger and ice hockey is growing momentum.
Here in Europe Ice hockey is popular in Sweden, Finland, Czech and Slovak Republic, Switzerland, Latvia and Russia. And a country like Germany is slowly starting to grow momentum for the sport.

And by the way, I’m not from any of the country’s mentioned above, I come from a European country in which Ice hockey is a very minor sport, so there are players from other European country’s as well.

The way I understand programming is that the games are programmed and coded on a computer, then ported for the consoles PS and XB. It wouldn’t take EA great resources to port the game to PC, It shouldn’t be any problem for them to do that.

Just port the game for PC, make it available on EA website and STEAM (No physical copy, online DL only)

@Knuten21 

I understand this seems like it should be easy to do, but the reality is that it's not. If it were, it would have been done. Hopefully, we'll have a PC version someday. At this time, I don't have any details on that.

The reason you see more popularity for nhl on consoles than pc is mainly because it’s much less work to have all copies run flawlessly on the same hardware.

i for one would much rather play nhl on the pc as well as so many others. Even if I had to pay $200 for the damn title, I would still spend that money than buy a console to play the 1 game title I have been waiting for over a decade to buy again. Same with The tiger woods golf titles that were so great. 

Quit being cheap and lazy EA, bring back the titles to the pc players because pc is the master race as shown in every single damn game. From better graphics to better frame rates, a good gaming rig will always surpass a console every time.

@StonedHipppy 

Something you need to consider as well is that usually having a gaming PC means you have higher technical knowledge about PCs. I'd be willing to bet that the majority of our playerbase doesn't share that kind of passion. They're hockey fans that just want an easy way to play with their friends. They want the game to just work and not be dependant on the myriad of hardware and software combinations that can interfere with PC games. Not to mention the large number of cheaters and hackers that can plague PC games. That's not something you need to deal with on consoles.

This is absolutely not an issue of being lazy. I don't think you guys realize how much research has gone into this. It's a common request but from a very small part of the community. We'd love to have a PC version, but when you consider the resources it takes to develop as well as what it would take to support and maintain the game on a different platform, there's a lot of work that goes into it for a small audience of players. Both FIFA and Madden are on PC, but they also have significantly higher populations on console. With hockey being a far less popular sport that both of those, chances are good there would be a very small community of players. That said, with cross-platform becoming more popular as well as the potential of streaming games on PCs, it's possible this could change in the not so distant future.