CONFIRMED: NBA Elite 11 Delayed until 2011

[Jamesmaster]

Weird that they waited until a couple of days before the release of the game. It's clear that they didn't expect the reactions to be that negative, but that might say a lot about EA.


Hopefully they'll scrap the game and take their time to come up with good animations and a game that reflects NBA basketball.

[jonesha2000]

Quote: Originally Posted by AndyP

You have to speculate whether NBA Elite 11 will ever be released at all...

And if it does release this year, what will that do for their development cycle? From what I thought I read they start on the next years title shortly after release so it seems to take a full year. I for one hope they dont tank because we need competition or else we will have another Madden situation.

[HiTEqMETHOD]

Wow, EA has actually done something right in terms of not trying to rip gamers off. For all my negative views on EA as a developer and company, I can honestly say they've gained some respect from me by deciding to delay Elite. I wish they were this considerate about other things as well though.

[beastwork]

I really hope EA learns the lesson that one year development cycles simply don't work. I hope the entire industry learns this lesson. Stop being cheap and develop complete games. Have parallel project teams. Sure it costs more initially but u don't have to eat the costs of delaying a launch date either.
Cheapness has cost them customers, fans revenues, and sunken proect develpment and marketing costs

[inkcil]

I wonder if this had anything to do with them giving away NBA Jam as a part of the package? Maybe they changed their minds (in part) because they wanted to totally seperate Elite from Jam.

[TUSS11]

Nowhere in the blog did he mention that it'll be delayed until 2011. It may well come out in November or December.

[dcf360]

I'm sorry but call it whatever you wasn't but the last nba live title I enjoyed was the one with melo in the cover... IMO live stunk after that & after playing the demo for what they attempted to call elite they didn't change much..the demo is terrible & i sill think it's still going to be garbage..what I didn't understand in a comment made by mr.moore about nba 2k11 in an article I read was him bashing 2k for using a retired player to endorse their product as a bad idea for business... But didn't you use 2 required fighters when you promoted fight night round 4?.... (Tyson & Ali) sons to me more like he knew that 2k had more than the upper hand with this years edition.... I don't care about nba jam when it comes to basketball sims just give me a true sports game that I can enjoy and honestly ea hasn't given me that since carmelo was their cover athlete.

[Db-Ransom]

OT but where do what site do yall go on to see the sales of video games, in particular live and 2k games