NBA Live 20 Delayed Until Late 2019 as Team Plans a Different Approach

[Steve_OS]

It's official. NBA Live 20 has been delayed. The writing was on the wall a couple of...

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[illwill10]

I was looking forward to playing it at release. But this isn't surprising. The roster update was the nail in the coffin. No way they were going to wait this late start marketing the game.
I can see a November or December release. Hopefully they can figure out what they need too. But this has to affect next year. With the game being delay, it cuts into next year's development. So I can definitely see them putting focus into next gen if they decide to continue

[Peter_OS]

I don't mind them taking more time to make this game better. I thought they were heading in the right direction. NBA Live 19 was a solid basketball game imo. It was fun to play and had some innovative features and gameplay.
I agree with illwill, i can see them putting focus into next gen since we are about 2 years from the next gen consoles.*

[illwill10]

Quote: Originally Posted by Peter_OS

I don't mind them taking more time to make this game better. I thought they were heading in the right direction. NBA Live 19 was a solid basketball game imo. It was fun to play and had some innovative features and gameplay. I agree with illwill, i can see them putting focus into next gen since we are about 2 years from the next gen consoles.*

*16-17 months from next gen consoles.

That brings up the question whether Live tries to release at next gen launch like the other sports games, or wait until following year. We can pretty much pencil in the other major sports games to release next gen version at or shortly after launch next year. But I'm not sure about Live

[swac07]

Wow...this could either be a good thing or a bad thing ...just have to wait and see

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[tbook24]

Saw this coming after the updated the rosters on 19

[ILLSmak]

Quote: Originally Posted by illwill10

I was looking forward to playing it at release. But this isn't surprising. The roster update was the nail in the coffin. No way they were going to wait this late start marketing the game. I can see a November or December release. Hopefully they can figure out what they need too. But this has to affect next year. With the game being delay, it cuts into next year's development. So I can definitely see them putting focus into next gen if they decide to continue

At least they announced a plan



I might also disagree with the cuts into development because they might be going full in w next Gen and gonna mail in some slightly updated "different approach" game, so basically the opposite of what you said. But id still play it. It does kinda suck to wait but we'll see when it actually drops.



-Smak

[Smallville102001]

Quote: Originally Posted by illwill10

I was looking forward to playing it at release. But this isn't surprising. The roster update was the nail in the coffin. No way they were going to wait this late start marketing the game. I can see a November or December release. Hopefully they can figure out what they need too. But this has to affect next year. With the game being delay, it cuts into next year's development. So I can definitely see them putting focus into next gen if they decide to continue

Maybe at this point they should just simple do 20 and then focus on 21 for next gen and not even do a 21 on ps4 and xbox one. Interesting that this is happing though and yeah does suck but at least we got some kind of news. Hopefully we will get updates over the next few weeks and month or so.