Along with EA’s new school basketball sport, 2K Sports activities is seemingly coming into the fray as properly in some kind or one other. Following EA’s announcement, the NBA 2K account posted a cryptic message that advised school basketball is likely to be within the works for the NBA 2K collection.
“The campus has been quiet for too lengthy,” the submit mentioned.
A spokesperson for 2K, in the meantime, instructed GameSpot, “2K is the undisputed dwelling of basketball gaming. We now have a robust historical past with school hoops and are exploring thrilling new methods to convey athletes and colleges to life. Class is in session.”
2K Sports activities beforehand printed the College Hoops 2K collection, that includes actual colleges from NCAA universities. 2K shut down the collection after College Hoops 2K8, which was launched in 2007. EA’s personal NCAA Basketball collection was discontinued after 2009’s NCAA Basketball 2010.
On June 30, EA introduced it was making a brand new school basketball sport. It additionally got here to mild that the Collegiate Licensing Company sought bidders to make a brand new school basketball sport, with a number of events submitting bids, although none have been named outright. The CLC’s proposal known as for ladies’s basketball groups to be included alongside males’s groups.
From the wording of the NBA 2K social media submit, and the truth that it got here from the NBA 2K account, it seems like this would possibly not be a brand new College Hoops sport however as an alternative a university mode inside NBA 2K–which is one thing followers have been asking for. Nonetheless, that is not confirmed at this stage.
There may be some huge cash in school sports activities video video games, as EA’s latest College Soccer 25 made greater than $1 billion in revenue and was 2024’s No. 2 best-selling sport total within the US. Any new school basketball video games or modes probably will not be made in partnership with the NCAA, which broke off with online game publishers years in the past attributable to a wide range of authorized and monetary causes.
EA’s new school basketball sport is not anticipated to reach till 2028, whereas the subsequent NBA 2K title is due out this yr. Whether or not or not any school basketball mode is added to the sport this yr is unknown, nevertheless.