Where Are the Tennis Games?

[Malcolmpordes]

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This is great news, but I see nothing in the article that mentions a PC version.

[Malcolmpordes]

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I just heard from Ross that Big Ant tennis will be on the PC. Yea!

[bakan723]

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So I've been trying to play a bunch of different tennis games recently (Elbow, Topspin, Smash Court 2..) and have been having the most fun with Hot Shots: Get a Grip on PSP.

I use component wires and hook it up to my TV though so I don't have to use that little screen though.

[ajs41072]

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The PS2 version of Hot Shots Tennis is available on PS4. It's really fun, no online, but still fun to play.

[sheredia]

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You're leaving out the most important word:

Licensing

The costs to license any real players, tournaments, and stadiums/courts (like Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, for example) are extraordinarily high. You'd have to spend millions of dollars with all of those entities before you even begin building the game, and that's why we don't see - and never will see - another big-time tennis game again.

No one would buy an unlicensed tennis game, and no one can afford the costs for the license when you combine the costs of development to create something new on the new PS4/Xbox One console generation.

Heck, the last licensed tennis game was Grand Slam by EA, which had all the licensed big-time tournaments and a small, but powerful, group of real players. It sold terribly, and will never be heard from again.

So they're gone, and they're never coming back. Which is a shame, but the sport and the industry have done this to themselves.

i have grand slam tennis 2 and didn't think it was bad....thought it was pretty good, actually. took a bit to get used to the controls, but once i did, it was fine.

[JBulls]

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i have grand slam tennis 2 and didn't think it was bad....thought it was pretty good, actually. took a bit to get used to the controls, but once i did, it was fine.

It had awful animations and terrible ball physics. The only good things were the graphics and the licensed venues and roster.

[bakan723]

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The PS2 version of Hot Shots Tennis is available on PS4. It's really fun, no online, but still fun to play.

Too bad they didn't put up the superior PSP version...Get a Grip.

[ajs41072]

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Too bad they didn't put up the superior PSP version...Get a Grip.

So that was different? I thought it was the same game on two different systems. Interesting.

[sheredia]

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It had awful animations and terrible ball physics. The only good things were the graphics and the licensed venues and roster.

the create-a-player and share option was nice too....

[bakan723]

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So that was different? I thought it was the same game on two different systems. Interesting.

It's missing the entire story mode, for one thing.

It's an emulated re-release of the PS2 game that came out in 2006. Hot Shots Tennis: Get A Grip came out in 2010 on PSP.

[Cod]

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Tennis Elbow 2013 on PC seems to be the best available at the moment.

[bakan723]

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Tennis Elbow 2013 on PC seems to be the best available at the moment.

I don't like how it swings for you, even if you never press a button. What's up with that ??

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