NASCAR 14 Passing up Next-Gen

Eutechnyx the NASCAR 14 developer has revealed that the game will not e released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Ed Martin, executive vice president for Eutechnyx, referred to Gran Turismo 6 when he explained the reason because of which NASCAR 14 will not be released on next-gen.

"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."

NASCAR 14 will feature online leagues which according to Martin is the most requested feature for the 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."

The game is set to launch February 18 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.