Along with EA’s new college basketball game, 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 faculty basketball may be within the works for the NBA 2K sequence.
“The campus has been quiet for too lengthy,” the put up mentioned.
A spokesperson for 2K, in the meantime, advised GameSpot, “2K is the undisputed dwelling of basketball gaming. We’ve got a powerful historical past with faculty hoops and are exploring thrilling new methods to convey athletes and colleges to life. Class is in session.”
2K Sports activities beforehand printed the Faculty Hoops 2K sequence, that includes actual colleges from NCAA universities. 2K shut down the sequence after Faculty Hoops 2K8, which was launched in 2007. EA’s personal NCAA Basketball sequence was discontinued after 2009’s NCAA Basketball 2010.
On June 30, EA introduced it was making a new college basketball game. It additionally got here to mild that the Collegiate Licensing Company sought bidders to make a brand new faculty basketball recreation, with a number of events submitting bids, although none had been named outright. The CLC’s proposal referred to as for girls’s basketball groups to be included alongside males’s groups.
From the wording of the NBA 2K social media put up, and the truth that it got here from the NBA 2K account, it appears like this may not be a brand new Faculty Hoops recreation however as an alternative a school 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 faculty sports activities video video games, as EA’s latest Faculty Soccer 25 made greater than $1 billion in revenue and was 2024’s No. 2 best-selling game overall in the US. Any new faculty basketball video games or modes seemingly will not be made in partnership with the NCAA, which broke off with online game publishers years in the past because of quite a lot of authorized and monetary causes.
EA’s new faculty basketball recreation is not anticipated to reach until 2028, whereas the subsequent NBA 2K title is due out this 12 months. Whether or not or not any faculty basketball mode is added to the sport this 12 months is unknown, nevertheless.