Microsoft has introduced that NBA 2K24 is coming to Game Pass later this month. The skilled basketball sim will come to the subscription service on March 11.
NBA 2K24 shall be accessible via Game Pass for each console and the cloud. That is the latest entry in 2K’s common basketball sequence, and it is coming to Game Pass about six months after it first launched in September 2023.
The sport offered greater than 7 million copies, however that determine was below parent company Take-Two’s expectations. Whether or not or not that has something to do with it coming to Game Pass is unknown. In any occasion, Take-Two could possibly be pondering that opening the sport as much as Game Pass subscribers could also be a method to assist the sport attain extra folks and drive extra income to its intensive microtransactions. GameSpot’s NBA 2K24 evaluate famous that the sport’s use of microtransactions pushes the sport to “new lows” by way of its in-game economic system.
Take-Two has stated it doesn’t imagine in companies like Game Pass for brand spanking new releases, however would contemplate bringing its catalog video games to the service on a title-by-title foundation, and NBA 2K24 is simply the most recent instance. Take-Two’s largest hit, GTA V, has been added to and faraway from Game Pass a number of instances through the years.
March is a fairly busy month for Game Pass. Past NBA 2K24, the library provides SpongeBob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Backside Rehydrated on March 12, Management’s Final Version on March 13, No Extra Heroes 3 on March 14, and MLB The Present 24 on March 19.