NBA Live Committed to Consoles - Shipping in 2017, But the Focus Will Be on Mobile

[ZoneSix]

committed to consoles but the focus is on mobile.. that doesn't sound good.

[Nemesis Enforcer]

Too bad. Live 10 will always be a top 10 game of all time for me and Live 16 is a solid game with Pro Am being a must play for any basketball fan. It's just a few years too late with 14 and start of 15 being flat out terrible and I don't see Fran mode ever getting on the level of 2k

I hope they don't give up on pro am. Most fun I've had in a while and really rewards sim basketball along with casual. Almost at 300 wins and 200 losses.

[KingTocco]

Anyone remember Jesus Bynum?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJwXBw86g30

I don't really get this move by the Live team, they say they care and all the right things but then hardly support NBA Live 16. Their whole business plan doesn't make much sense to me, I truly believe they should just scrap this franchise and focus on something else.

Go the NBA Street route and make a new one of those, maybe make a Pro-Am focused game as well since that was fairly decent in Live 16. I know some of you in here actually believe this was a good game this year but it's the same 10 or so of you talking.

I'd really like for NBA Live to get it together for competition sake but that's about it at this point, it's always wait until next year or we are almost there...that was 2, 3, 4 years ago. We are still relatively in the same spot IMHO. They have made some improvements but not anywhere near enough for a AAA Franchise.

[Ermolli]

I understand some people's optimism about the news, how the extra time gives more time for the dev team to deliver a better product, however, how can they be so sure that they'll release a great game because of it? It feels like 2010 again with the delay to early next year, to then a cancellation and then who know's what's going to happen.

This isn't great news for EA nor the basketball gaming community. Live's brand and perception is at an all-time low, people don't trust EA, don't care about Live and don't think they could ever recover since their downfall with Elite 11.

I believe that at best they'll release a PSN/Xbox Live game with little to no modes (LUT and Pro-Am basically), some improvements in gameplay, and at a reduced price, kinda like Live 13 was going to be (since it makes little sense to release a fully-fledged game with not so much time until the next release). They could release the game along the All-Star Weekend or close to the beginning of the playoffs when the interest of the season starts to peak.

[StillFunkyB]

I had never seen the Jesus Bynum. That was funny. Thanks.

[KennyJ1976]

Just give up EA Sports, its over as far as basketball is concerned. They might as well scrap the Live franchise and bring back baseball. It can't sell any worse than Live and they have the Xbox market all to themselves.

[P-Dub]

Yeah. Disappointed before the game is even announced. By the time it gets released I will probably be knee deep in the other game or even the mobile version if it turns out better than the current one to even consider Live 17.

Is it going to be too little too late? Or are they going to take advantage of the potential extra time to add depth to the game and have features that have the user base have been requesting for 3 years?

[RoyalBoyle78]

I will say this news kinda upsets me, as I really enjoyed LIVE this year.

Oh well I guess


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