NBA Elite 11 Officially Canceled, Franchise Future Moves to EA Tiburon

[P-Dub]

I'm pretty sure it will still be called Elite.

[Mintsa]

Quote: Originally Posted by P-Dub

I'm pretty sure it will still be called Elite.

I hope not......I'm a "Live" player and have been since 95. I never liked the name change to Elite and I really hope they change it back, especially after what happened this season.

[olumite]

Quote: Originally Posted by SolidSnake07

EA should just bring back the NBA Street series instead.

I'd quickly snap up a copy of nba street vol 2, with updated rosters. Imagine Miami on that game!!

Do it EA!!

[HiTEqMETHOD]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dice

This might be a good thing. Now they have a FULL two years to make a solid basketball game. Which means, they can actually start from scratch and get rid of all that old code that haunted the game for the past 15 years.

I doubt they'll change hardly anything relating to code or address the engine. EA has had a terrible track record in regards to overhauling any aspect of their games. Look what happened with Madden, Ian Cummings asks for a new engine and gets shot down.

Live remained largely unchanged for the better part of the last ten years, I highly doubt just because they have a two year development cycle they're going to take advantage of it. Sure we may get a solid game from EA when ELITE finally arrives but it'll be nothing close to their other franchises or the top sports games like the Show or NBA 2k.

[Pared]

What you guys also need to consider is the guys from Tiburon NOW have to spend a large amount of time figuring out how everything runs and what they can or can't do.

This isn't going to be easy and I wouldn't expect marginal improvements at this point any time soon.

They also haven't shown they understand signature player nuances and style as of yet. Probably the biggest disappointment for me.

[rspencer86]

Does anyone know if there are contractual implications between EA and the NBA that would take effect due to them not releasing a game in 2010? Penalties, breach of contract, etc.?

[jeebs9]

Oh well

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[DaReapa]

Quote: Originally Posted by wEEman33

Mark basketball down as another "1-game" sport. I miss the days of 3 and 4 developers competing for each sport.

Yeah, but in all fairness, basketball this year became a "1-game" sport the legit way - by beating out the competition through quality efforts. Not by some trifling license exclusivity deal.