Does NBA Live 13 stand a chance against NBA 2K13 ?

[SoF'nAwesome]

Andrew, you are a cool guy dude

Guys, I get all the debates. But doesn't 2K get more sales overall as Live 13 isn't made for PC?

[Bulls#1]

Actually just a bit because almost all people in the world just download cracks and that is the reason EA sports decided not to release Live 09-10 and Elite 11 to PC

[Andrew]

Guys, I get all the debates. But doesn't 2K get more sales overall as Live 13 isn't made for PC?

If it is released on more platforms then it has even more of a leg up on total sales, no question. However, you could still measure Live's success by its reception and sales on platforms where it is going head to head with 2K.

[BD1899]

I think it all depends on how 2K improves their gameplay. If we're still seeing centers keeping up with guards on the fast break, then it could cause frustrated players to give NBA Live another chance.

I'm not expecting too many game modes from this upcoming Live game. I think they'll be focusing more on the key game elements and making their Dynasty mode and My Player mode as bug free as possible. If they can just make these two modes enjoyable and without the glitches that the 2K version had this year, I would definitely buy Live when it comes out in October.

Having a PC version of the game would be a plus as well.

[Spree#8]

I think it all depends on how 2K improves their gameplay. If we're still seeing centers keeping up with guards on the fast break, then it could cause frustrated players to give NBA Live another chance.

True. With one slight difference in my view on this - I'm already willing to give Live a chance. If they release it on PC, that is.

I only enjoyed 2K12 for the first few games, after that all the flaws jumped out at me and I couldn't bring myself to have any fun with this game anymore, no matter how hard I tried. It was just too damn frustrating. It's nice that they give us tons of interesting features, but so what if all the fundamentals and most of the features themselves are glitched? Some of the flaws are so obvious and so stupid that it really makes me think they don't bother testing those games at all. And why should they when there are lots of people defending them, saying things like "every game has glitches, just enjoy what you have, hater" - only not every game has that many glitches and not in such important aspects of the game - and more importantly, people buy the game no matter what. With the PC version, there's also lack of support, half a year of waiting for the patch, updates containing PS3 files and online that could as well not be there at all because it never works. With that kind of approach, that's it for me. Not buying 2K13 unless Live isn't out for the PC and I don't hear about a ton of glitches again in 2K13 (the latter being rather unlikely, considering how 2K12, 2K10 and even pre-patch 2K11 was like).

What does Live have to do? Fresh, solid gameplay with a decent amount of features, animations not looking robotic, decently deep Dynasty and Become Legendary and don't glitch everyting that's possible to glitch. And, as someone already mentioned, they'll be light years ahead of 2K with their online simply by making it work.

[RedPhazon8]

For me at least it will come down to which one ends up on the PC, but I'd say that Live still has a chance to challenge 2K.

[JBoom_LALALAND]

NBA LIVE 13 ... I will wait for this ... I hope Kobe or Griffin would be in the cover...

[Andrew]

At this point, I'd say 2K is much more likely to be on PC. However, I'm keeping my fingers crossed until we get the official word on both titles.