OS Fact or Fiction: College Hoops Edition

[kashmir28]

Honestly, why not release right before March Madness. While other sports are eliminating teams out of contention come playoff time, college hoops and March Madness actually adds teams, thus adding interest and want to the sport. Who had VCU, Richmond and other hopeful Cinderella's on there mind before March Madness. The peak interest in college hoops would be the ideal time to drop a game. It may seem late to the diehards, but diehards are going to buy no matter what...Madden...So why not feed the want.

[jbrew2411]

I love college basketball. I played college basketball and now coach high school basketball so the sport is my life. I also love playing basketball games. I think releasing in January would help. The fact that other games are not released during this time would help. Also it is after Christmas and people could spend those gift cards on the game. The game would not have to compete with NBA2k or NHL games. It just seems that October a lot of games comes out. Alot of people have to budget money when purchasing games so any college hoops games gets put down the list. I think a later release and maybe a 2 year-cycle would really help. The off year could have a updated roster release for those that have to have current rosters. Also the addition of a recruiting class builder like NBA2k11 has for draft classes would help as well. We could share our classes. Also the ability to edit roster (ie..names) before the release would be great. Don't know if they could load them on something like a team builder type site for the roster makes to get to work so when the game hits the streets we have a roster out. College hoops has way more teams then football so it takes a lot of time. Just some ideas.

[ven0m43]

A college basketball game, made by 2k would be good no matter when it is released.

[xblake16x]

I am now a fan of dustin toms for his Sonic statement!

[statum71]

I still wish for the life of me that 2K would implement that weekly highlight show into NBA 2K.

That was so incredibly entertaining.

[Dalsanto0026]

If 2K made another College Hoops game I'd buy it. This is coming from a college basketball fan in Australia. I'm sure there are fans from many other countries as well..
The sport has international appeal, so I don't see why a quality CHoops title wouldn't sell well. I know it wouldn't be as popular as the NBA titles but I don't think the market is as small as some people think.

[brza37]

Don't get my hopes up like this... I'd pre-order on the day they announced a new CH2k. Hell, I'd buy DLC for 2k8 if they would bring some out for it.
Although I like to play when the Hoops season starts I've been saying for a while that a late February early March would make a lot more sense. In November alot of people are still busy with the football games. Then College has to compete with 2ks own NBA game. And November-December is usually packed with AAA non-sports titles anyway. Just way too much competition.
In late Feb. through March there's usually a lull in big releases and you've got the hype from conference championships tourneys and March Madness build up.
But I think we're just gonna have to keep dusting off 2k8 year after year when we want to get our fix.

[SonOfEd]

Or they could package it with NBA 2k12 for a higher price, yet they would still save on distribution costs. Win-win for all!