CONFIRMED: NBA Elite 11 Delayed until 2011

[seasprite]

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i know if EA dont release a college basketball game for 2012 they lost me a customer.. Also why the ncca 10 cant be updated with the rosters and that nice stuff that nba live 10 is getting.. If i dont get that roster update for Ncaa 10 with the new players. EA lost me as a customer...

Might have something to do with AA rules about player likeness or something like that, just sayin.

[pdawg17]

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this demo was total garbage everybody move the same and the controls were atrocious and laggy it took like 1 or 2 seconds for the pass icon buttons to come up what are u smoking?

Hello kids...our golden word for today is "opinion"...do you know what that means?

[welcome2jungle]

but didnt EA get the exclusive license for college basketball?? like why did 2k quit making college basketball games and EA kept on

[iceberg760]

WOW.....i guess they finally listened to the Message Boards.....now it's on 2K --- PLEASE HAVE THE SERVERS READY FOR HEAVY TRAFFIC!!!

[NYYanks26]

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Very surprising considering it was supposed to street in just 1 week.. Never heard of anything like this before, but it does not reflect good anyway that you look at it.

I'd be shocked if this game is ever released.. What are they gonna do? Work on it for the next 2-3 months, release in Jan-Feb and then release the 2012 version only 8 months later? They should just put all their resources into making something out of next years game. Why waste more money and time on a project that could already be deemed a failure.

And EA should drop the name too.. There is nothing "Elite" about having your product delayed when discs have already been pressed and the street date was in 7 days.

Nobody (well not many) are gonna pay full retail for a new NBA game when the season is half over and the other game already has a 3 month head start. Not to mention 2K will probably go on sale at least once during the holidays.

Now this game has become a collectors item. I can't imagine what collectors/die hard EA fans would pay if any copies popped up on ebay in the next week.

[matt8204]

It must have been pretty bad for EA to do this.

[Boilerbuzz]

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Madden is good....you guys are just expecting it to cater to your every need.

Disagree. But this isn't about Madden.

[Boilerbuzz]

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but didnt EA get the exclusive license for college basketball?? like why did 2k quit making college basketball games and EA kept on

Not quite. To put it simply, the CLC was trying to manipulate an exclusive deal with EA by offering T2. T2 would set the price and EA would be forced to match. The problem was that T2 refused to play that game again and said, "No thanks" leaving the CLC with no leverage at all against EA - who later gave up due to bad sales. If the CLC offered either company a deal good enough that the companies could make money in such a small market, I'm sure both would "jumps in it...".

[marktg30]

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Looks like someone grew a brain...

Unfortunately, this is going to put Elite in the spotlight even MORE now than it would have at the original launch date.

EA is struggling and this is evidence.

[RxB]

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delaying the game should be fine, as long as they make the actual game look like the the Durant Elite intro in the demo.

[texasgmr]

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They are done! No way that EA can bounce back after this "shocking" news.

[sportyguyfl31]

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Thoughts


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[yungflo]

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Thoughts


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great video.

[davjaffe]

I will throw in the suggestion I mentioned in another thread. Hold Elite until the NBA Playoffs. Then release a Elite Championship Preview game as DLC. This would be a fully realized game but only featuring the NBA Playoffs and team structure.

This way EA can recover some money from Elite and still sell it at its normal October release date next year without too many people screaming about two $60 games in a 6mo span. To maximize exposure for both franchises they could throw a free DLC card for the "Elite Championship Preview" in with every copy of NBA Jam.

Anyway, that is just my though. Still this is a good move by EA. Elite was not ready for prime time.

Including free roster updates for Live 2010 is a nice idea as well. Being able to pick Live 2010 up at bargain prices know you are going to get 2011 updates will prove more successful against 2K11 than Elite ever would have.

Releasing NBA Jam as a stand alone title on all platforms is also a no brainer. Why spend all the time making it for the 360/PS3 just to give it away.

Oh, and now can we laugh at all the fanboys who went bat **** crazy about how good Elite was compared to the competition? Even EA says its no good so stop defending it.

I like this idea a lot; it reminds of what they did with the March Madness DLC a few years ago. As a matter of fact, it would be nice if they did that with NCAA hoops again.

[da ThRONe]

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Thoughts


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Good video

The biggest question is how long is this delay. If it's in March like it's being speculated that gives them a lot of time too add or removes things not just tweak. But I guess at this point we all have to wait for the details.