It was absolutely a lock. Why wouldn't EA have planned one of their biggest sports releases annually to come out on the Next Gen consoles? To be the final sports game left to not be on Next Gen 6 months into it's life, and then to also not put it out the
year after previous sports games already had their NG debut. C'mon now.
Not to mention this game has no doubt been in development for close to 2 years. Which obviously means they had plans for it before then.
Your video game judgement needs some touching up my man, lol.