RANT: Why Isn't NHL 23 On Nintendo Switch? (Hockey Games On Switch 2022) NHL 22 , NHL 23 

Agreed

Yes same

i thought i was the only one...

same

Even just the NHL 94' port would make me happy!

The switch has been the best selling console for multiple months in the past year. A large amount of that driven by North American consumers, I think they'd have pretty decent sales if they did port it.

@@erinkonrad7370 oh I absolutely agree with you and you're 100% right about the sales figures for not only North America but the Switch was the best selling console in the UK/Europe too for a while. However, my belief is that these don't do much to counter Nintendo (a Japanese company) making decisions which don't make cultural sense to THEM. I mean, look at how little they did for Zelda's anniversary DESPITE how amazingly successful it is as a franchise GLOBALLY 😮‍💨

is basketball soccer and golf big over there ?

It's not on the switch unfortunately

Very few. I recommend Super Blood Hockey.

I just picked up fc24 because binjust wanted a good sports game and it was clear NHL wasn't coming. It's pretty good and will keep me entertained

I'm German and I think you are wrong. If it wasn't for Super Nintendo (SNES), who knows if I would have ever become a fan of the NHL (maybe ... being an US exchange student 2001/02 did play a role, also); and I feel like it's the same for others, also. We are not talking about a difficult to market, hyper-situational game like baseball here; and even thoae seem to sell! The narrative "noone cares outside canada" is just patently wrong; a comnon excuse by lazy EA and their fanboys. It's just easier to milk HUT-whales (basically: the same predatory noney making sheme gambling sites employ!), and never really invest in development ever again...

@@PyrrhoVonHyperborea as a Marketing student I respectfully have to disagree. Its great to hear your story but you are just a fraction. For a company focusing on the majority of consumers, thats just the way that it is. The statistics don’t lie for the majority of people even if there are a good amount of outliars. For them its all about profit and $$$

@@chromeposites so you are some marketing expert, huh? (Or even just a failed student?) There's a name for this: it's called "argumentum ad autoritatem" (or "appeal to authority") and it's a logical fallacy. There is a market for hockey games outside north america -- you never addressed that argument, to resort to sophistry instead; "cool story, bro" is also just an ad hominem, basically. Baseball has no fans outside north america -- for some reason though, it's still being given multiple renditions on the switch. Maybe Japan factors into that, but it would still be nieche, once the rest of the world factors in, including the huge european market. There are hockey crazed nations out there, outside NA, and it worked out tremendously in the past (i), for selling games. (Btw.: PCs may even be more prevalent over here, compared to consoles) They just need to convert the game, and there are even development studios specializing in that; the marketing itself would be practically for free, as a mere addendum to the already existing adverts... It's a free market, untapped potential! It's nuts, not to tap into that! Why no PC version? Why no Switch version? There is no rational argument for that lapse, *especially not* from a marketing perspective, mr. "I'm the expert on this"... Claims are cheap. As is ignoring actual arguments being made to instead divert and resort to lowly sophistry... "The statistics don't lie" my ass! There aren't even statistics for how well a game like this would sell these days, as they *don't even try!* The real issue is, how well their gambling-addiction target audience could be milked on other platforms. It's easier on closed systems (hence no PC), and nintendo as they largely advertise to families and children is a lot more stingy to allow such predatory tactics on their syatem, in fear of bad press! (But they became more lenient on tgat in recent years, which makes the non-cinversion even more mind boggling!) You are just a wheeze of hot air... "Marketing student", lol! Good chuckle you gave me there! i) the SNES days are fondly remembered by many hockey fans to this day; those games did sell! What's that in terms of "statistics don't lie"?! Or do _authorities on the matter,_ like *marketing students* like yourself, only care for the non-specified, vaguely hinted at "statistics", that -- allegedly -- suit their bias, whilst disregarding sales numbers as neglectable? Strange marketing philosophy you have there...