EA waves NBA Elite white flag, NBA Live set to return

by Gaetano Prestia Featured 8 Comments 8 Votes 955 Views 24/02/2012 Back to News

Remember NBA Elite 11? No? Maybe it's because the game was never released.

EA's attempt at turning around its dwindling basketball franchise, NBA Live, came with a new name and new style. Only problem is, the game was simply horrible.

The demo for NBA Elite 11 launched in late-2010, only for the game to be officially canceled shortly after following widespread criticism. EA had officially killed off all hope of contending 2K Sports' thriving NBA 2K series.

Now it seems as though EA Sports is bring NBA Live back from the dead if a tweet from Cleveland Cavaliers player Kyrie Irving is anything to go by.

In Orlando for #AllStar checking out the #FutureOfBasketball with @EASPORTSNBA. Get to see the new #NBALIVE13!

What will EA bring to the table (or court) later this year? Hopefully it'll get its rythm back.

Source: Twitter

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Tano

Please god yes

24/02/2012

"Niko! Cousin!"

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Diagonis83

it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
I loved NBA Live back in the late 90's early 2000's.
I'm hoping they can revive this band

24/02/2012

Claptrap "I'm over here, just listen to the sound of my soothing voice"

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Dino

It was good for them to take time away from NBA, re-evaluate and hopefully bring something really good next year.

I just think leaving for 2 years has given 2K a massive advantage and i dont know if anything that Live comes out with will be good enough.

24/02/2012

Melbourne, Victoria

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Luke1993

I hope thus does happen i prefer playing NBA live to Nba 2k series in my opinion they are abit to realistic unlike the NBA Live series which i'm not meaning to say horribly at all

24/02/2012

Adelaide

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GangStarr

Ooooooo I was waiting for this too be announced, wasn't sure if it would be this year or next year. Now I'll have 2 Nba games to buy again.

EA will have a lot of work to do if they want to compete with 2k.

24/02/2012

Shaolin Land

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Sandallman

Finally, thisll make 2k get off thrir asses and actually bother to bugtest and balance their basketball games, or risk losing sales to live.

24/02/2012

behind you....

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HonestJoe

I used to be a huge nba live fan, wouldn't even give 2k a chance until probably 2007/08 when nba live really started getting bad, hopefully they can turn it around

26/02/2012