Where Are the Tennis Games?

[drtrix]

Re: Where Are the Tennis Games?

It seems at the very least that Tennis Elbow 4 will be released on PC next year.
Viewing their forums, the game has an excellent chance of being released on PS4 and possibly xbone as well.

This game is more along the lines of The Golf Club than a fully licensed game however.

[tonybologna]

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It seems at the very least that Tennis Elbow 4 will be released on PC next year.
Viewing their forums, the game has an excellent chance of being released on PS4 and possibly xbone as well.

This game is more along the lines of The Golf Club than a fully licensed game however.

I just don't play PC games much at all. Hopefully Tennis Elbow 4 will be extended to consoles as well. Having it for PS4 and/or XBox One would be great to finally have another tennis game for console usage.

[spoofrice11]

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I was also wondering if they are going to put out any new Tennis games?

I enjoyed the Top spin games years ago (haven't played in a few years) on my 360 and would get a new game if they put one out and it got decent reviews.

Hopefully they will release one sometime soon. I'm guessing they will sell quite a few after so many years off.

[Tomma]

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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.

That's not necessarily true...for a brief period of time we were "regularly" getting tennis games that had 16-30 licensed pros ( Virtua Tennis 3, 4, 2009, Top Spin 3, 4, Grand Slam Tennis 2 and Smash Court 3 were all released in a 4 year span). Several of those games went 'platinum' and many sold well over 1 million copies. So licensing and sales aren't the issue.

Tennis was never a "yearly edition" sport like NBA/NFL/FIFA but they were being developed fairly timely......i think it's more to do each individual developer-

2k/TopSpin- The development team has closed down.
EA/GST- They took the cheap approach going for style over substance and it failed.....i think that they are now afraid to try again and won't risk it.
Sega/VT- Each game got worse and they couldn't seem to find the bridge between sim and arcade. I expect them to be the first to make a "next gen" tennis game.
Namco/SMT- The least talked about yet steady seller, they seemed to have shifted their focus and sports aren't on the table.

It's quite sad that the King of Sports, EA, has only had 1 ( ONE!!) multi platform tennis game since the SNES days.....and none of Ubi Soft, Activision or RockStar has ever put out a tennis game.

[Tomma]

Re: Where Are the Tennis Games?

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.

That's not necessarily true...for a brief period of time we were "regularly" getting tennis games that had 16-30 licensed pros ( Virtua Tennis 3, 4, 2009, Top Spin 3, 4, Grand Slam Tennis 2 and Smash Court 3 were all released in a 4 year span). Several of those games went 'platinum' and many sold well over 1 million copies. So licensing and sales aren't the issue.

Tennis was never a "yearly edition" sport like NBA/NFL/FIFA but they were being developed fairly timely......i think it's more to do each individual developer-

2k/TopSpin- The development team has closed down.
EA/GST- They took the cheap approach going for style over substance and it failed.....i think that they are now afraid to try again and won't risk it.
Sega/VT- Each game got worse and they couldn't seem to find the bridge between sim and arcade. I expect them to be the first to make a "next gen" tennis game.
Namco/SMT- The least talked about yet steady seller, they seemed to have shifted their focus and sports aren't on the table.

It's quite sad that the King of Sports, EA, has only had 1 ( ONE!!) multi platform tennis game since the SNES days.....and none of Ubi Soft, Activision or RockStar has ever put out a tennis game.

[spoofrice11]

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So what are the chances that a new tennis game is made in the next year or two?

[number1thumbs]

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So what are the chances that a new tennis game is made in the next year or two?

Don't know, but no release would make more excited than hearing topspin 5 was in production

[JBulls]

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Would you guys consider indie pc tennis games or just purely AAA console?

[Ernestdavison]

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May be Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each .

[sheredia]

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liked grand slam tennis 2....didn't think it was bad at all. a next gen version would be nice.

[FD247]

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Wish i could fire up a virtua tennis or grand slam on ps4. Virtua tennis was one of my most played games on dreamcast.

[polakis]

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Hello,

The great tennis elbow 4 will be released in June 2017 on pc and later on ps4/xbox one...

[Malcolmpordes]

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This is a quote from Ross Symons, CEO of Big Ant, developers of the excellent Don Bradman Cricket 14. If the mentioned tennis game is anything like DBC 14, it should be good.

"Going forward Symons confirms Big Ant will be including women in all its future sports games, which include for now a new Casey Powell Lacrosse, plus a tennis game which Symons notes he’s teased previously and will discuss more in due course."

[JBulls]

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When did he tease the game before? It'll be interesting to see how this turns out

[Thrash13]

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Big Ant confirmed they're making a tennis game in a Gameinformer article posted yesterday!! Here is a couple paragraphs from the interview with Symons. Great news!

"We're going to do tennis, and we're going to do tennis because no one else is doing tennis. And the thing is, we can own it if we do it well enough. We pretty much own cricket. No one else in their right mind would do cricket now. So, it would be extremely difficult, even for EA. Because, we planted that flag and we own that space.

Tennis is our next target. We actually did five console games last year. This year we have four console games. It's amazing the output – it's a lot of games. You don't see a lot of them Stateside because it is cricket, rugby, things like that. But you'll certainly see tennis. They're be another lacrosse in March next year, and tennis toward the middle of the year."