CONFIRMED: NBA Elite 11 Delayed until 2011

[Mr.Wednesday]

It was the correct action to take by EA.

I would love to get my hands on one of the original copies of Elite 11 if there were any shipped to retailers. Instant collectors item because of the rarity.

[coolcras7]

Quote: Originally Posted by Playmakers

based on what your opinion? You guys need to stop all the NFL2K5 crap.....if you feel it's the better football game then that's your opinion but th ereason why Madden still sales hasn't nothing to do with NFL2K5 It still sales because it's still a very good game.... Don't act like 2K5 wasn't broken in some areas and it was a perfect football game....it was far from it

No it still sells because it's the only game on the Market

[Bumi]

Quote: Originally Posted by tomahawk77

EA should do what they usually do when they have an inferior game....get an exclusive licencse. They did it with Madden when NFL2k5 was clearly a better game. If you can't beat em', buy 'em out.

Madden 2005 was great, the two products were of comparable value. That isn't the case between Elite and 2K, as 2K is clearly the superior product. And I say that as someone who hasn't purchased a 2K title since 09 due to the lack of control.

[nccomicfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by eckoefx

Didn't see this one coming at all.

anyone who says they did this close to release is lying

[DickDalewood]

I'm definitely a little surprised, but this is absolutely the right decision. Good call EA, good call.

[oo7Soxs]

Awesome! Maybe, just maybe we are off the yearly release schedule for sports games! Thank you EA for not thrusting an inferior product to launch just to push some units and thank to to 2K for creating competition that might further change the video game industry as a whole!

[MaSTA SoLIDUS]

Quote: Originally Posted by MaSTA SoLIDUS

Those 'perhaps' points should be known right now as principles of your design and development of the series going forward. Which is it? What is the goal? I'm not going to assume I completely understand the design process for a game with such a short development cycle, but I'd assume you have a long-term goal as to what you want in the game, considering you went and made unilateral changes based on things you came up with with relatively little input from this part of the community. So are you saying that you don't know what way EA wants this thing to pan out? Are you just throwing it out there with the marketing and selling points for the title you have, and you're going to wait until you see the critical and sales success it has before you establish what you want to do with it going forward? It can't be that. By biggest gripe with your responses is the gray area. Some things you can't argue, like opinion on the new controls and direction. But things like comparative graphic fidelity, feature set, and design direction should be fact. These are things that have basis in reality; if you are making an NBA simulation, and are competing against another title, the game either looks better or worse than the other one. Similarly, there has to be some idea as to what you want the game to do long term.

My initial guess, that there wasn't a particularly good long term idea as to what the game would be and they'd try to scrape by by starting over and increasing value of the package by adding NBA Jam to it.

I'd still like an answer, when they figure it out.

[da ThRONe]

While I think this is undoubtedly the right move. Respecting or thanking EA for this is like thanking a guy for not stealing from you because you realized what he was trying to do. They have spent months telling us this game was going to knock our socks off and it was ready. No disrespect but for me this completely undermines rEAnimation word. He has been pretty honest ,but this makes him seem like a lair. If the game is as good as he says it is why this delay?