Should 2K Buy the Exclusive Rights for NBA 2K12?

[popo324]

Since 2K11 could very well be the best selling basketball game of all time, do you think it would be a wise decision for 2K Sports to crank it up a notch and buyout the NBA license for 2K12 and beyond?

[mikenoob]

And that would help them.... how?

[ffpp]

Probably too expensive and also a bad decision from the perspective of fans. Because it would lead to 2k becoming lazy in development and improvement without any real competition and would get the genre stagnant.

[VDusen04]

If I know this community, and I like to think that I do, I would bet the answer to this query will be overwhelmingly, "NO!".

I do not see a reason to make the rights exclusive, even if they had the means to make such a move. Just like every post in this thread will say, with competition, everybody wins. We have all seen firsthand what happens when one company has exclusive rights with sports titles.

[jr2424]

Nope. And I hope the NBA is smart enough not to sell it to either. Competition is the only way we got what we got from 2k this year. 2k was probably worried about Live making a significant stride after what Live did last year. I just hope Elite doesn't have a bad enough showing this year that they take next year off or scrap the franchise like they did with college basketball. Both companies need to push each other.

[Goffs]

use the search this had been bought up before and the answer is the same

NO!

[HustlinOwl]

do they really need to at this point?

[TMagic]

No.

Competition is bliss.