NASCAR '14 Skipping PS4, Xbox One

Developer Eutechnyx revealed to Sports Illustrated that NASCAR '14 won't be coming to Playstation 4 and Xbox One.

Ed Martin, executive vice president for Eutechnyx, brought up Gran Turismo 6 when explaining the reasons behind skipping next-gen for NASCAR '14.

“We took a good, hard look at it, but there just isn’t enough hardware out there yet to justify the cost of development,” Martin said. “The nail in the coffin was when a guy from Sony talked about Gran Turismo and how their new game was launching on PS3. He said something like, ‘Why would we put Gran Turismo on a console that has zero units in the market when there are 150 million PlayStation 3s out there?’

"Well, it’s a great question. It costs us about $6 million to develop a next-gen version of NASCAR. You have to sell an awful lot of copies in order to meet the development costs, on top of all the licensing."

What NASCAR '14 will have, though, is online leagues, which Martin said was one of the most-requested features for the racing franchise. "We heard of a lot of gamers actually doing this offline," he said. "They would hold private races and keep track of the stats themselves. Now we handle all of that for you.”

NASCAR '14 releases February 18 for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

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