Tennis World Tour Arrives in 2018, Ultra-Realistic Sim From Former Top Spin 4 Team

[Alfie]

I find it puzzling that nobody has stepped up to develop/publish a Tennis game on current gen consoles. It's been nearly 5 years since PS4 & XBOne came out and we still don't have a Tennis game for this console gen. Even a simple port from the previous console version would've sold copies given the dearth of Tesnnis games on consoles.

EA not continuing with Tennis is understandable given their focus on team based sports games more aligned to "Ultimate Team" concept where they can earn cash "selling" virtual cards/coins. But can't figure out why 2K dropped Tennis as well. They had the best game on previous gen console in Top Spin 4. All they had to do was port it over to PS4 and XBOne and they would've sold copies as there was no competition. Head scratching to say the least.

[JBulls]

Quote: Originally Posted by tonybologna

Close as in someone helping with the game in some way like testing or something like that maybe?

I prefer not to specify further as an attempt to not get anyone in trouble. I am assuming you're asking to trying to gauge the validity of my claim(s)? If that's the case I can't help you lean either way other than to say that I am a tennis fan myself and if you read my first post in this thread you can tell how excited I was about this game to begin with. The last thing I was told (which was a few weeks ago) is that the "development was disorganized".

[Alfie]

I wonder what happened to the Tennis game that was being developed by Big Ant Studios (an Australian developer). I had heard sometime back that they were working on a Tennis game which was supposed to release in 2017.

[tonybologna]

Quote: Originally Posted by JBulls

I prefer not to specify further as an attempt to not get anyone in trouble. I am assuming you're asking to trying to gauge the validity of my claim(s)? If that's the case I can't help you lean either way other than to say that I am a tennis fan myself and if you read my first post in this thread you can tell how excited I was about this game to begin with. The last thing I was told (which was a few weeks ago) is that the "development was disorganized".

Bold above. That description is much different than the game being cancelled. I think it was pretty obvious that the team had/has disorganization but you can say that for a select few other games as well. Doesn't mean the game has been cancelled or stopped development. Maybe it's just a bump in road & they are trying to iron things out.

Maybe you're right though & they can't get the development to go as planned & have decided to ditch the game all together. I just know it's weird that the game has no official website available yet so it certainly is strange. Thanks.

[JBulls]

Quote: Originally Posted by tonybologna

Bold above. That description is much different than the game being cancelled. I think it was pretty obvious that the team had/has disorganization but you can say that for a select few other games as well. Doesn't mean the game has been cancelled or stopped development. Maybe it's just a bump in road & they are trying to iron things out. Maybe you're right though & they can't get the development to go as planned & have decided to ditch the game all together. I just know it's weird that the game has no official website available yet so it certainly is strange. Thanks.

I never said anything about the game getting cancelled & neither did the insider, if I implied it I didn't mean to. This is just my speculation but I think the game is either going to release on time and be somewhat lacking overall or they're going to delay it to try to add more content, but I don't think it's going to be cancelled... At least I hope not with so many years of no AAA tennis games

[tonybologna]

Quote: Originally Posted by JBulls

I never said anything about the game getting cancelled & neither did the insider, if I implied it I didn't mean to. This is just my speculation but I think the game is either going to release on time and be somewhat lacking overall or they're going to delay it to try to add more content, but I don't think it's going to be cancelled... At least I hope not with so many years of no AAA tennis games

No problem buddy. I said in one of my previous post that I believe it will be delayed. The original release was set for Q1 2018. I don't think that's going to happen. I'm thinking more along the lines of a 2018 Q3 or Q4 release date myself. Thanks.

[ajs41072]

This article about Xbox One X enhancements https://www.operationsports.com/many...ts-heres-list/ has Tennis World Tour on the list.

[tonybologna]

Quote: Originally Posted by ajs41072

This article about Xbox One X enhancements https://www.operationsports.com/many...ts-heres-list/ has Tennis World Tour on the list.

The link that you provided will not load up for me. Just sets & spins like it's stuck. Nevermind it finally loaded & I seen World Tennis Tour listed under 10-24-17. I don't know how much stock to put into that date though. It's 10-25-17 & it's not been released on any console/PC.

I would assume they would try & release the game around the same time at least for consoles. There's no website nor much information available for the game so how could 10-24-17 be a legit date? Thanks.

Wait! These are just game titles that are due to receive enhancements for XBox One & not release dates. So, they do have World Tennis Tour listed so that's something positive I guess we can take out of this.