Sony San Diego Making Hockey Game?

[neodydan]

Does anyone have any info on this rumor? I think it would be awesome for these guys to make a hockey game.


Just wondering... Would appreciate any info...

[edwing]

Doubtful. Nick Livingston (one of the designers on MLB The Show) said recently on a stream that although they would love to make an NHL game, they currently are not. It's unlikely that they'll go back into hockey or football at this point, especially since he mentioned that he thought the EA series had a good foothold of the market.

[youvalss]

Quote: Originally Posted by edwing

Doubtful. Nick Livingston (one of the designers on MLB The Show) said recently on a stream that although they would love to make an NHL game, they currently are not. It's unlikely that they'll go back into hockey or football at this point, especially since he mentioned that he thought the EA series had a good foothold of the market.

The more sports games the better, but just not something like their RIP (for a reason) basketball franchise.

Did they say anything about basketball? Their last few titles were pretty bad, in my opinion (keep in mind that I'm all about 5on5 basketball with real NBA players, and don't care about story mode).

[Simple Mathematics]

If they made an NHL game on par with The Show... I would never leave my arm chair.

[ericromain]

That would be incredible. Great that he even mentioned the notion.
I think hockey is the best sport for a video game.

Football is really tough to make defense fun. You can only control one player at a time
Baseball games are kind of spelled out on defense too. Plus i always feel like need to be played 9 innings to feel rewarding but that's a really long time
Basketball and shooting the ball into a hoop just isn't satisfying while controlling a player
Soccer is pretty solid but it's slower paced than hockey.

Hockey is fast, the controls feels solid, you can always control the right player you want on defense. and EA's analog controls for puck handling and shooting feel so right.
I really wish someone else could pick up and create some competition for EA. Though i love the series, It seemed like EA NHL hit a wall around 2010 when 2k got out of the game.

[hockeymagasinet]

The more sports games the better. The one thing I would recommend would be to follow a GM series from 2bcproductions on youtube.

[TSOLEliot]

That would be great but highly unlikely...hockey is unfortunately still not a vastly popular sport as seen in TV ratings.

Plus San Diego has a real hockey team named the Padres...all their scores are very reminiscent to an actual hockey game such as 2-1, 3-0, 2-0, 4-1....

[Simaofan-20]

Quote: Originally Posted by TSOLEliot

That would be great but highly unlikely...hockey is unfortunately still not a vastly popular sport as seen in TV ratings. Plus San Diego has a real hockey team named the Padres...all their scores are very reminiscent to an actual hockey game such as 2-1, 3-0, 2-0, 4-1....

Stanley Cup finals had around 6 million viewers