Much like EA Sports has enjoyed dominance in many of the key sports game categories in the world, from soccer to football, 2K Sports has placed themselves in a prime position for basketball dominance with their NBA 2K series. This and last year’s iterations, NBA 2K12 and NBA 2K11, were some of the best sports games period, rivaling even EA Sports’ work on Madden and FIFA.
But all that is potentially going to change, as EA Sports has confirmed the return of the NBA Live franchise for this year. The info was first leaked by Kyrie Irving, first round draft pick and starting point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers, forcing EA Sports to reveal NBA Live 13 is coming, and it should release this fall.
While this news, regularly, would get sports and basketball fans alike excited, the fact that EA hasn’t delivered a basketball game in over two years will play into the appeal of NBA Live 13. For 2010, EA was planning to revamp the Live brand with NBA Elite 11, but after a poorly received demo released and NBA 2K11 knocked it out of the park with its Jordan Challenge mode, Elite felt like it just couldn’t compete.
The hope was that, after taking a good look at where the genre was going, that EA Sports might return with Elite for the ’11-’12 season, but that never came to pass. And now here we are with Elite dead, and NBA Live reborn for 2013.
There are no details regarding Live just yet, but EA Sports has told fans to check their Facebook page this Monday, where we expect the official announcement to take place. If Kyrie Irving is heading over to EA Sports’ headquarters check out the game it might even be possible he’s the cover athlete, that is if they aren’t doing a free-for-all fan vote like they do with Madden now.
What would you like to see out of NBA Live 13? How should EA Sports set itself apart from NBA 2K?
NBA Live 13 is targeting a Fall 2012 release date with no platforms announced.
Source: Kotaku, Kyrie Irving
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I think they should bring the COMPLETE NBA ALL START WEEKEND, and what I mean by COMPLETE, is the Dunk contest, 3 Point Shootout, rookie game, celeb game, everything the NBA does in real life at the NBA ALL-STAR WEEKEND the game and DYNASTY SHOULD 2
and they should have EVERY Past, Present, and Future Shoe,bands,sleeves, other gear etc on the game and we can make it any color/design. we should be able to customize the arena, ALL the gear(just for our team.player in the superstar mode), the jerseys, the pre-game warmup gear(the jumpsuits, Tee Shirts, etc), and the stuff we send to the fans. and let us customize the NBA ALL-STAR WEEKEND gear,jerseys,shoes,etc, let us choose where to play the NBA ALL-STAR (after the 1st season), we should be able to choose the Jerseys of the players we want to retire, have the real Hall Of Fame, and all of the things about customizing the gear,shoes,bands, and other gear we choose to wear in the superstar mode. if u make a superstar mode it should include the NBA ALL-STAR WEEKEND.
I cant wait for live13 to hit in stores, I hate the 2k series and still play live10 online… this is big news for me and all nba live fans everywhere!
Hell yea!!!!
Need two no when the live come out
What ea must do is the same thing they did with fifa.
They copied proevo and eventually killed konami’s soccer sim.
So just copy the 2k.But dont except visual concepts to lay hands on the ground…
please go back again nbalive2013 psp game i like the game.please do again to create a team in the nbalive2013.i love nbalive and i love basketball.thanks
Im so excited about the return of nba live I still play live 10 I’m ready to buy it now
True fan since 95. I only wish you were able to have a buddy mode for full season/franchise/playoffs were online friend can play with cpu contolled teams when necessary. For example. I get my fav team n a online friend gets his fav team and we both play every game vs each other because we have option of selecting the oppenant (cpu controlled) team at matchup screen. This way your main homie/rival can try and prevent you from amking playoffs, allstar games, and winning championship and vice versa. Ultimate competition!
nba13 should have allthe olympic teams/fiba teams to et itself apart from 2k. that would be awesome!
They NEED a myplayer mode an we should get paid for shoe and all endorsements