2K Sports Has Already Approached NFL About NFL 2K13 Licensing Deal

[rooney8]

Take Two Interactive share price has jumped up over 5% so far today. Anyone know the reason?

[ReviveESPN2k5]

CEO is resigning which the market took as a indicator that TTWO might be up for aquisition.

[sega_2k]

I think people forgot what 2k5 had to offer. People are speculating what the new game could offer and what would make it different then Madden. Well I've been playing 2k5 for 7 years now and have never played a Madden game. Here are few thing that 2k could bring back and make more in-depth.

1. The Crib- For you veterans you know what I'm talking, this was very original and you "pimp" out your house and add everything you can think of from posters to entertainment system and popcorn machine. 2k could run with this and make it something like MTV Cribs and have you show off your house with all the awards you've won through your career.

2. ESPN 25th Anniversary- Well NBA 2K11 has the Micheal Jordan Challenge where you try to re-do all the great moments in his career. Well NFL 2k5 already had that except it wasn't centered around 1 player it was on the greatest moments in NFL history which was really fun. They could make it change the name of it since it won't land on a good year like the 30th anniversary or 50th anniversary.

3. Franchise- Wow, this was the thing that I put off the most after having 2k5 for 7 years. I never played franchise until now and now I know that I missed out. It was so deep for the time period and you could have 3 player trades. 2k could make this even deeper by making it something like the NBA 2k11 Association. And have you train as a rookie and try to make an NFL team. The sky is the limit for this feature.

4. Online- This is what made NFL 2k5 addictive to me. In one word, leagues. Back when Madden 2005 was out, they didn't have leagues and this is what made me love 2k5. I could have my friends join a league with our teams and have a draft. Also, what was cool was you could link your xbox live or playstation gamertag to the 2ksports.com site and make your league have it's own personal website. It would even update after every game and have the league leaders from each game and the league as a whole. The only thing that 2k needs to do to this for the future of 2k football is penalize people for not playing their games. I don't know how they could do it, or make it so it cuts down the people not showing up to play.

5. Soundtracks- NFL 2k5 had custom soundtracks and that was cool, I never used them but it was a nice feature to have if you get tired of hearing the announcers say the same lines over and over. 2k could add this to the new game and just make it more deeper.

6. First Person Football- This was a cool idea but it never stuck with many people and no one even played it when I was online. It was more of something that you and your friends could do offline. But if they brought it back, they would have to make it a little more easier to play.

Animations- I don't know about you guys but 2k5 had tons of animations from gang tackling to juke moves. There is no game that has a better running game then 2k5. The analog stick set the men from children. I remember you could pull off strings of jukes and basically make your opponent look as if they were standing still or their legs were made of jello. If 2k could make something like the NBA 2k11 game has where you use the left trigger like on the xbox 360 to do different crossover moves and add that to a football to do different side steps and jukes. We can already right down that 2k will be the best football game hands down. The only thing that 2k5 had problems with was the defense AI. The computer would seem to be lost on man coverage and if the QB ran the ball the defense would be totally lost. I'm not afraid of this in the new football because 2k has shown that the defense in NBA 2k11 is great and reacts well to almost everything.

Overall, for the new 2k football game if it does in fact come out, all they need to do is build off of what they had in 2k5 and add more of everything I just stated and just new features that people will want to play.

[dcsoldier]

Quote: Originally Posted by beatnik

2K has tried that route, and it was ugly lol.

yea like 7 years ago.....c'mon let it go

[dcsoldier]

Quote: Originally Posted by LiquorLogic

The article doesn't say anything about an exclusive Licensing deal. It simply states that 2k approached the NFL regarding licensing. EA has paid a lot for the exclusive deal. As a result of the ruling with American Needle, the NFL may not be willing, or able, to grant exclusive licenses; however, they probably want to get the same amount of money, but from 2k and EA, so maybe 2k is anticipating that the license may be very expensive. I'm no expert on EA's and 2k's finances, but would 2k even have a realistic shot at out-bidding EA for the exclusive license ? I mean EA, at one point, owned exclusive licenses to the NCAA, AFL, ESPN and the NFL. If the exclusive license was up for bid again, I'd bet on EA winning that bid, again. Also, until the case with American Needle is actually over, we won't know what the talks between 2k and the NFLPA are about. We don't know how the licensing will work. Will 2k have to talk to all thirty two franchises ? The NFL is now considered( by the Supreme Court) to be 32 separate entities; Will the NFL and NFLPA just issue a blanket license ? They're legal if they're not exclusive. There are a lot of things we don't know. I, like a lot of posters in the thread, am against the NFL issuing an exclusive license to either publisher. If 2k gets an exclusive deal, who's to say that we won't get more of the same crap since there's no competition ?

ea does not have as much money as people think....don't believe me, just take a look at their stock which has dipped more than 200% since 07. bottom line is this....with the below avarage sales of madden it isn't worth for ea to keep pumping money into nfl for exclusivity, therefore most likely the outcome will be that both companies will make a football game in 2013. recent shake up in the ea management and loss of their nba title surely proves that ea isn't doing as well as everyone seems to think. it was once a powerful company however those days seem to be over

[Sinner]

Would definately love for 2k to be able to make a football game again. Like someone said earlier with the effort they put into 2k11 they really should take that game to the NFL and be like this is what we want to do for your product. Please let there be a NFL2k13

[two1sounds]

has it been stated that the ea/nfl deal will not go past 2013? I mean not get extended again?

[dcsoldier]

Quote: Originally Posted by two1sounds

has it been stated that the ea/nfl deal will not go past 2013? I mean not get extended again?

it appears that ea doesn't have another $300+ million on exclusive license.