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

06:29 PM - November 2, 2010 by Steve_OS

I asked EA PR about the cancellation of NBA Elite 11, here is the official word, from PR.

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	"Yes, we set ambitious quality goals for NBA ELITE, but the game is not ready."

Looks like previous reports were correct.

According to Kotaku...

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	"Future development of that franchise will be handled at EA Tiburon in Orlando," EA COO John Schappert added, confirming previous reports that the Madden NFL studio would pick up where previous NBA Elite developer EA Canda left off."

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# 61 acreyman @ 11/04/10 08:20 PM

This is the last thing Tiburon needs.....they need to focus on making us the best Madden game every year and now they have to mess with this joke?

# 62 The Legend @ 11/04/10 09:02 PM

I'm not worried about the move what so ever. Madden sold pretty damn good, if they can attempt to make Elite just as good, I see Live/Elite being back. I'm just wondering if some of the developers from EAC will come help.... Ryan Santos for instance when it comes to the accessories. They really would need this lol. Pretty sure we would see signature moves and differentiation between players. Just looking forward to what the game looks like next year summer time. I still have faith. What sports games have EA Tiburon made??

# 63 AndyP @ 11/06/10 02:55 PM

Interesting to read some "knowledgable" people make reference to David Littmann. The guy who almost singlehandedly revived the NHL series to the point where it is today. After all, that's why they handed him the NBA job as well (alongside his NHL work).

# 64 mlp111 @ 11/06/10 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by AndyP


	Interesting to read some "knowledgable" people make reference to David Littmann. The guy who almost singlehandedly revived the NHL series to the point where it is today. After all, that's why they handed him the NBA job as well (alongside his NHL work).

thats the problem, basketball is not hockey! nba elite look like the worst sport game ever released!

# 65 sroz39 @ 11/06/10 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by mlp111


	thats the problem, basketball is not hockey! nba elite look like the worst sport game ever released!

You mean, not released, right?

# 66 Hova57 @ 11/10/10 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by sroz39


	So is EAC with the NHL series. And doing it better, IMO. I've yet to play a Madden game on these consoles without wondering about why the physics of the game are so out of whack. Madden is a very fun football game, I just wouldn't call it overly realistic. If Tiburon could achieve the same level of gameplay in Elite, I wouldn't be disappointed. I just don't see how they'll be able to do so for the release of Live/Elite 12, which is why I will never understand why EA would pull this game from EAC at this point in time, when they're more familiar with the RTP in Elite than anyone else. There's got to be more to this story.

that's my point EAC is doing well with this tech and Tiburon isn't using it yet, so obviously they are up to speed on so they can have everything inhouse in one location instead of flying in and out to canada.

# 67 Nines @ 11/11/10 02:44 PM

http://www.gametrailers.com/news/ea-...organized/2634

Dunno if this has been posted, but the NBA Elite debacle has caused EA to completely re-shuffle their sports division. A lot of people apparently lost their jobs.

Sad to see things like this happen.

# 68 AgustusM @ 11/15/10 11:55 PM

I am one of the few that preferred the EA basketball games to any of the 2K ones. I always see how much people prefer 2k, but I never saw it, I didn't like the way it looked and I didn't like the way it played.

not sure what I will do for my NBA fix now.

# 69 Arven @ 11/17/10 09:24 AM

And now they try to push NBA Jam as a full-price product in order to recoup some of the money lost on this venture. Jam is fun (a friend has it on Wii), but no way it's worth nearly the price of the full-fledged game

# 70 jubba910 @ 12/11/10 10:10 PM

Will it be Elite 12 or will they go back to Live 12? I honestly think they should scrap Elite altogether. You can't run with that name when its first image is failure.

# 71 SEShido @ 01/05/11 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Dizmatic


	Drop the Elite name. It will always be remembered as the game that couldn't compete with NBA 2K11.

So true. Live is, and always will be, a classic. No need to fix what wasn't broken.

# 72 winningfreak @ 01/05/11 05:11 AM

Honistly I happen to have gotten a copy of Elite 11 and it's really garbage. if you try to pass into the post you end up throwing an all-oop and it's just like a giant cartoon. People who came up with this awful idea should be canned and never picked up. It's that bad props to EA for canning the game.

# 73 Pared @ 01/05/11 12:22 PM

Alley oops are controllable so I'm not sure why you're experiencing that.

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