NHL Legacy Edition Coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

[Steve_OS]

EA Sports has announced NHL Legacy Edition, which is the NHL release for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 this year. On the surface, it looks like a greatest hits of sorts for the 360/PS3 era. GameStop currently shows a $59.99 price, but we haven't heard anything official.

Here are the details:

"EA SPORTS NHL Legacy Edition brings together the most popular modes and award-winning gameplay features from nine years of NHL hockey. Featuring updated rosters and authentic schedules, it’s the perfect experience for fans looking to get that complete hockey fix on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.

THE SPEED, SKILL, AND AGGRESSION OF NHL HOCKEY

Experience the explosiveness, momentum and top-end speed of the world’s best players with True Performance Skating. Dangle defenders with easy to use One-Touch Dekes and feel the hard-hitting chaos of NHL hockey through true-to-life multiplayer collisions, net scrambles, and player pileups with Multiplayer NHL Collision Physics.

LACE UP THE SKATES

Live the Life of an NHL player as you take your Be a Pro character through the junior ranks and into the NHL. Every decision you make will affect your relationship with fans, teammates and management, influencing your skills and progression. Once you master these single-player Pro experiences, jump into Online Team Play or EA SPORTS Hockey League and team-up with some friends to face online competition. Lastly, relive the glory days with NHL 94 Anniversary Mode featuring bigger goals, hits, retro presentation, and classic button controls.

MANAGE YOUR TEAM TO GLORY

Create an NHL dynasty in Be a GM as you build your team through rookie drafts, trades and signings. GM Connected enhances the manager experience by allowing gamers to manage, play, or coach with and against friends online in their own 30 team human controlled league. Finally, our most played mode Hockey Ultimate Team is the only place to build and play with a team composed of all your favorite players to create an ultimate dream team. Take your team online and face-off against other fan created teams from around the hockey world.

COMPLETE AUTHENTICITY

Choose from eight different hockey leagues including the NHL, AHL, CHL, Liiga, SHL, DEL, Extraliga ledniho hokeje, and National League. Featuring updated rosters and authentic NHL schedules."

[Sheba2011]

Re: NHL Legacy Edition Coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

So it's the same exact game with updates roster and a new name?

[murph17]

Re: NHL Legacy Edition Coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

Very strange. So NHL 15 + updated rosters + anniversary mode + GM Connected (wasn't in 15, right?)?

Legacy Edition - marketing speak for "Listen guys you thought NHL15 was a roster update, well you ain't seen nothing yet. We REALLY mailed it in this year."

No way it's full price, right? $40 game?

Regardless as a XB1 owner, I'm glad to see they did this so more resources could be used on NHL 16.

[snc237]

Hey they aren't lying. They ain't saying NHL 16 WITH ALL NEW.... SOMETHING. They are straight up saying its rehashed by saying legacy. It was either the psp or ds that did the same thing with fifa. Called it legacy I believe and it was identical to the years before game besides the updated rosters.

[huntt26]

I respect their honesty. Hopefully they don't charge full price for those still on the 360 and PS3.

[Mr_K]

Re: NHL Legacy Edition Coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

I respect their honesty. Hopefully they don't charge full price for those still on the 360 and PS3.

Same. Listen they're moving most of their focus to next gen (really current gen), and so they're like hey if you want a NHL game with the latest rosters here it is, otherwise for the full effort experience it's available on PS4/XB-ONE

[mjavon]

Re: NHL Legacy Edition Coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

This is exactly what they should have done. People who haven't upgraded to PS4/XB1 can still play NHL with updated rosters, just no gameplay improvements, which is fine as long as it's not full price. Glad to see they're focusing their resources on the PS4/XB1 edition as they clearly didn't have enough people to put out a quality product in NHL 15.

[mcmax3000]

Hey they aren't lying. They ain't saying NHL 16 WITH ALL NEW.... SOMETHING. They are straight up saying its rehashed by saying legacy. It was either the psp or ds that did the same thing with fifa. Called it legacy I believe and it was identical to the years before game besides the updated rosters.

I think it was on the Wii they did that.

[mcmax3000]

I have no problem with them doing this, or even charging $60 for it if they decide to since they're being up front about what it is.

Would I pay $60 for it? Hell no, but as long as they're telling people what it is so that they can make an educated decision about whether, or not they want to buy it, I'm fine with it.

[BurghFan]

Guess I really shouldn't be surprised those of us still on the PS3/X360 aren't getting a whole new game. The only reason I'd been planning to get 16 was due to the major division realignment in the AHL anyway. Still waiting for them to add the ECHL.

[NYJin2011tm]

Re: NHL Legacy Edition Coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

My hope is that NHL 16 ps4 version has preseason games/take over team pre draft. But if it doesn't I would buy ps3 version for $30 or less.

[TjJunior]

Very strange. So NHL 15 + updated rosters + anniversary mode + GM Connected (wasn't in 15, right?)?

Legacy Edition - marketing speak for "Listen guys you thought NHL15 was a roster update, well you ain't seen nothing yet. We REALLY mailed it in this year."

No way it's full price, right? $40 game?

Regardless as a XB1 owner, I'm glad to see they did this so more resources could be used on NHL 16.

You honestly believe in that they are going to take any money saved and put it towards making NHL 16 the best hockey game they can? I may be underestimating, but I'm pretty sure that a group of execs are gonna divide the savings and ball out with that cash before they put it into a product on a niche market in which they are the only ones making a game.

[BurghFan]

Just went to gamestop.com and it has NHL Legacy Edition listed for $59.99, though dunno if that's official or just a standard placeholder (meaning they're just listing the standard price for PS3/X360 games as the selling price) since we don't even have a release date yet.

http://www.gamestop.com/browse?nav=1...Legacy+Edition

[sroz39]

Re: NHL Legacy Edition Coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

You honestly believe in that they are going to take any money saved and put it towards making NHL 16 the best hockey game they can? I may be underestimating, but I'm pretty sure that a group of execs are gonna divide the savings and ball out with that cash before they put it into a product on a niche market in which they are the only ones making a game.

The NHL dev team has traditionally been one of the smaller ones working on one of the annual sports releases. I don't think its a matter of money per se. More like, we have 100ish people working on this game and 95% of that team's focus is going to be the current gen version.

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[razorkaos]

Re: NHL Legacy Edition Coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

I would pay 40 for it, nothing more. For me it would be ok, since i don't play a hockey game since Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey on the N64.



But 60 would be offensive...