When EA teased in June that it was bringing again its common school basketball franchise, some puzzled once they would possibly really get one thing to play. Because it seems, it isn’t going to be anytime quickly, which isn’t a lot of a shock.
EA Sports activities government Sean O’Brien instructed USA Today that EA is “up for the problem” of constructing a brand new school basketball recreation. Presently, the corporate is “within the means of attempting to determine how that might come collectively.”
Whereas it is nonetheless very early days, O’Brien went on to say that the hope is for the brand new recreation to incorporate each D1 males’s and ladies’s basketball workforce, and he admitted getting this accomplished is a “daunting process.”
O’Brien stated the success of re-launching the school soccer collection helped pave the way in which for bringing again school basketball. “We felt that we actually captured lightning in a bottle with school soccer. I believe we might like to attempt to do the identical for faculty basketball,” O’Brien stated.
Matt Brown of Extra Points beforehand reported {that a} potential new school basketball recreation from EA may arrive with the 2028-209 season, however no official bulletins have been made.
Along with a brand new recreation from EA, 2K Sports activities has stated it plans to revive its personal school basketball series–that recreation is probably going solely early in improvement as properly.
Wanting again at EA’s school soccer recreation, the corporate first teased a undertaking in 2021, however the recreation wasn’t launched till July 2024. It was an infinite success, producing more than $1 billion for EA and rating because the No. 2 best-selling recreation within the US for 2024.
EA hasn’t launched a university basketball recreation was NCAA Basketball 10 in 2009. As for 2K’s collection, the corporate hasn’t put out a brand new school basketball recreation since 2007’s College Hoops 2K8.