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Originally Posted by AcGold
But a large part of that has to be low quality. I'm dying for an NHL game to play, only sport I like is hockey and the odds of me getting the new one is very low. That has to be the same for a ton of people. I used to buy the 2k football games and I don't even like football. Quality sells units imo. I had 500$ ready to go for NHL15 on ps4 and that's not happening now, just not worth it.
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I agree. The development teams for the NHL games have spent so much time ignoring the obvious for the better part of two decades they have seen shrinking sales for a decade or so. Yeah to year fluctuations yes but the trend is clear. 2002 sold 1.2 mil on the ps2 alone. The last few iterations haven't sold that much on all platforms combined from what I can see.
However, there is also an appeal component to a game and hockey doesn't hold universal appeal like soccer and it doesn't hold the domestic north American appeal of baseball or football and more people are going to look to pay those games first. The quality issues just cause piling on.