Per a recently sent memo, EA Sports will no longer be licensing and making a college basketball video game, with it instead to go to 2K.
However, by July, reports came out that 2K — also known as Take Two — planned to challenge EA Sports for the right to license this product. That came to a head last week as, per Ben Portnoy at the Sports Business Journal, several schools were reported to be doing individual deals instead, with 2K over EA Sports.EA Sports was written to be looking for a “wide-ranging game incorporating every Division I men’s and women’s team,” while 2K is “narrower in focus” as theirs would currently be “built around the biggest brands in the sport”, Portnoy noted at SBJ.It remains to be seen what a new college basketball video game would look like and, at this rate, when it could be on shelves and available to fans. However, whenever it does come, 2K looks as though they’ll be the one producing it with this apparent decision by those at EA Sports.Per Matt Brown at Extra Points, EA Sports has rescinded its proposal to create the video game for college hoops. That’s with enough schools nationally, instead, choosing to license themselves with 2K.