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JAME TIME Jul 30, 2023 @ 4:40am

give us the NHL on steam deck and pc

you produce absolutely unpopular golf and rugby, but you don't give us popular sports in Europe and Canada

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Senseless

Aug 4, 2023 @ 11:01pm

to be fair that dev team for nhl is even worse

TFerretNXG Aug 9, 2023 @ 10:28pm

golf is a very impressive sport the only people who dont like golf are goobers

TacticalFear616 has Madden NFL 24

Aug 10, 2023 @ 11:59am

I'll try to address this for you in full detail but may be long winded.....

Feel free to fact check this as well. EA has a community playtest page (Beta signup) already live for people to sign up for beta of NHL 24 even though the game and all new features won't be announced until next week.

The site confirms PS4/PS5 and Xbox One and Xbox Series X. Meaning their doing a next gen and a last gen. PC not getting a beta hints to me that we aren't getting NHL this year. Madden 24 is only next gen on PC because EA is ditching lasting gen ports for that franchise. So if by chance we do get a port on PC it's going to be a last gen port of the game.

NHL is my favorite EA sports series since 07 when the skill stick was brought in. I'd love to see the series return to PC since the last one we got was NHL 09 (a PS2 arcade port). Also have a steam deck and have tried to emulate NHL 12 and NHL 13 to scratch the itch with bad results. I'd love for this to come to PC/Steam Deck

I'm just guessing but at some point NHL on PS4 is no longer going to make sense to release (1-2 years) EA can either wait out last gen and put the resources they were putting into last gen to do a PC port of next gen. Or they could choose to test the market (similar to how they did with Madden the past few years) by releasing last gen. I don't think they can ignore the market all together especially with putting crossplay into everything.

What I think happened is....... PC gaming saw a big boom slightly before and during the transition from PS4 era to PS5 era. EA decided to test the market with Madden/Fifa their two top selling sports franchises with last gen ports with mixed results. Fifa 23 went next gen on PC last year. Madden this year. So I think somewhere in that testing EA realized they couldn't do a last gen port on PC and be successful. NHL not being as successful sales wise I think they decided to continue to offer support on last gen knowing it was hard to get next gen consoles and large part of their player based remained on those consoles. I think it was a question of "do we tie up resources to port last gen to PC and see it flop sales wise" I think when you see PS4 and Xbox One support ditched they'll throw those resources at a true next gen/crossplay port of NHL 24.

I'm sure EA is monitoring how Madden 24 Next gen does on PC. And the player base sends EA a strong message that all we want is Next gen/Crossplay ports of our favorite sports franchises.

In the meantime I've been on an NHL boycott for about 3 years now. I have a PS5 but refuse to buy the game until its on PC next gen I suggest the same. EA will release games where the player base is or suffer sales.