2K Sports Will Not Release NHL 2K12

[DrJones]

Quote: Originally Posted by bangpow

This makes me wonder if they'll even renew the MLB license. I'm not even talking the exclusive license, but just the license in general.

I'd be surprised if they stopped making baseball games altogether, but the pseudo-exclusivity deal will not be renewed. It's been an unmitigated disaster for 2K.

[canucksss]

im glad i still have the NHL 2011..... very disappointing for hockey game enthusiasts. EA will have more time to snooze around and release a "slightly" new 2012 with FEW tweaks from 2009.

[mirrored32]

interesting.

[slickdtc]

Sad news. I can still remember the good ol' days of 2k3, the Thunderpuck forums, 2khockey.net, the change to ESPN NHL Hockey, back to ESPN NHL 2k5, then 2k6. After that, it seemed to go completely down hill. Damn you Cinemotion, damn you!

2k3 will always be my favorite NHL game.

2k10 showed potential, but there were moments where it just made you want to throw the controller through the TV. And not, "WTF the CPU is cheating!!" moments, but moments of "What. The. Hell... is this a finished product?"

[kerosene31]

Sad news. Competition always makes for much better games for everyone.

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by savoie2006

It's a shame they ever released 2K9. Think about what kind of hockey game they could have made if they had axed 2K9 and maybe even 2K10 to develop a complete game to compete with NHL 11. 2K9 really killed it for 2K Hockey, much more so than 2K8's control scheme or 2K7's Cinemotion/Players Breath.

Agreed, but Take Two refused to put money into the title. NBA sells far more and that's their flagship, granted their sports "line" isn't much of one though these days. It's tough to compete with EA when they can and do easily outspend you. Also having Bish as producer on both MLB and NHL really hurt both games imo.

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by slickdtc

Sad news. I can still remember the good ol' days of 2k3, the Thunderpuck forums, 2khockey.net, the change to ESPN NHL Hockey, back to ESPN NHL 2k5, then 2k6. After that, it seemed to go completely down hill. Damn you Cinemotion, damn you! 2k3 will always be my favorite NHL game. 2k10 showed potential, but there were moments where it just made you want to throw the controller through the TV. And not, "WTF the CPU is cheating!!" moments, but moments of "What. The. Hell... is this a finished product?"

Agreed. You're making me feel old slick, heck I even remember when it was the EA Wish list before being absorbed by TP and then Sega came along and did something special for a few years.

Good times Good times!

[tabulaRasa]

yeah the thunderpuck days ruled, I also agree that 2k5 and 2k6 focused on real stuff in hockey. Awesome detail and great support and feedback from fans (treyarch days to early kush days), but with cinemotion it all started to get weird. It´s funny that EA took 2Ks concept of being real and sim and 2K took eas old crazy way of gimmicks....

Oh well. NHL2k5 and NHL2k6 on Xbox are some of the best hockeygames ever made.