 I believe NBA 2K22 is about to be delayed and for reasons I'm about to explain here in this video I don't think both current and next gen is going to be dropping on the dates We believe they are you know what go back to that scroll down and click that big red button Man, if you're not subscribed to the channel, you'll get notified the next time I drop a video Okay, let's get into it for those of you who've been paying attention you already know But for those who aren't let me catch you up 2k usually at this point in the year does like their regular promo This is around the time they release some kind of my gm news They're releasing players overalls, but here they are dropping screenshots of demarda rosen We got russell westbrook collowry and lonzo ball all players if i'm not mistaken that have switched teams So it's a new look it's a way for them to promo it like this is what demarda rosen is going to look like on the bulls And they look great graphically they look fantastic I don't think anyone's ever looked at a game with 2k and said them graphics aren't up to par It's a graphically good-looking game with a lot of sweat Let me add but they say on the caption of this post though new teams for familiar faces In mba 2k 22 which player are you running with first now? If you haven't been following them on twitter You might be like that's just a regular post trying to promote the game that's coming out But as the rest of the 2k community proceeded to tell mba 2k they already posted those screenshots Badge puck says did y'all just compile your last four tweets into one tweet and hadn't tweeted in four days Chalk says 20 days away and no gameplay y'all are killing us translation pre-order our game But hey, you won't get to see what it looks like until september 9. I keep forgetting this game's coming out and it's my job That's how bad this roll out is This was already tweeted right i'm confused and then kenny said you literally already tweeted these pictures and they did This is the picture of launzo. This is the post for demarda rosen This is the post for kyle larry and this is the post for russell westbrook as if they've run out of information to tell us They're just rehashing information that they've already showed to us And with three weeks left in the game's launch for them to be holding back information and rehashing already existing information Just feels like they missed the mark, but they might be doing it purposefully Okay, so I want to reference you back to the last time mba 2k delayed a product of theirs And it actually wasn't an mba 2k game. It was the mba playgrounds game about five years ago There was a game that came out on steam called mba playgrounds. It was an arcade basketball experience and it did pretty well It was developed and published by a dev team called sabre interactive. They're pretty popular in this space They've made some titles you might have seen before and the game itself did pretty good I think it sold a few hundred thousand copies for indie title that's impressive But 2k actually decided to slide in the dms and purchase the ip for the game because they wanted it themselves They said this mba playgrounds 2 was due to launch tuesday may 22nd But developer sabre interactive has delayed it at the last minutes sabre didn't give any specific reasons why it was being Delayed it was only announced about a month ago It's planned to launch on the switch ps4 on pc and the xbox one And so that's all we knew about the game for a couple months before it was revealed That the reason it was delayed is because 2k purchased it 2k wanted to monetize it and add some features to the game As it relates to mba 2k though 2k has never delayed They would rather drop an unfinished product and have us just Stumble through the game than actually delay the product But i'm starting to think this year might be a little different because if you guys remember last year with the launch mba 2k 21 on both the current and the next gen there was talk about a delay then too This article from brian mz was titled mba 2k 21 It's time to brace for a delay and to realize that's a good thing the game never ended up being delayed But it did come out unfinished. I mean if you guys played next gen Holy that first month was just like it wasn't a game. It wasn't even a beta. I would call it an alpha They were just like here It was the game that you give to your alpha tester and they dropped that for consumers around the world And we just had to endure but the main reasoning for the talk about the delay was because as this article says mba 2k is developed in Nevada, California The state has been under shelter in place orders for over a month and the 2k development team has been working from home On the next version of the game. Obviously that's a tough thing to go through You know i'm saying like you got to adjust the way the entire workflow of a very very large dev team So you can imagine that come with his own complications and we know about it because we bought the game And then it was fucking horrible in the first month. I mean, it's still horrible now It's just playable now But at the time of the launch developer said that they only had eight months to work on the next gen version of the game And it was clear that 2k just wasn't ready for a next gen launch It didn't feel like a next gen experience. It felt like a lot of the same So for those who don't know mba 2k tries to line up when their games release with So for those who don't know 2k always tries to line up when their game releases with when the mba season is about to begin They use it as like kind of some promo put over the years. They've been releasing davis Why are you staring at me? He's just staring at me. I'm like, yo, I can see him from the back of my eyes. Give me up, bro Over the years though, they have been scaling it back and back and back So the games used to drop in october now they drop in early september But because of the pandemic and because the mba season has been truncated and pushed and delayed and all kind of Which way we don't even know when the mba season is gonna What it really looks like. They have not released the schedules for yet. All we do know is the start date A sham seer puts out this tweet saying key dates for the 2021 22 season training camp starts on september at 28th and the regular season starts on october 19th We don't know what the actual schedules look like but october 19th is a key day 2k has to release before october 19th So 2k might actually be incentivized to wait a little bit before they release the game to make sure it's more ready But there's of course the added complication that this year like last year They have a new dev team a whole mix of there's two dev teams There's a dev team We all know working on the next gen version of the game and there's a dev team They recently acquired working on the current gen version of the game. So that complicates things even more It's not one game 2k has to worry about publishing. It's two completely different games that have completely different It feels different. It plays different. Everything is different I've never seen that in the history of me playing video games I've seen games released and then remastered on a future generation I've seen games come out with like a good version on next gen and then a shell of its former product on current gen 2k has done that before but never have I seen like two separate games launch at the exact same time from two different dev teams So that's new too when 2k acquired that new dev team They said hook bang has partnered with us on mba 2k for the past couple years And we're pleased to welcome its talented team to the visual concepts family So although they worked in the past they have now officially been eaten up by the 2k umbrella And they're now part of 2k, but this is a very big year for 2k and anytime their sales dip They do any and everything to get themselves back on track for the next year If you look at this website vg charts and they kind of just let you know how much each game sold and They only know as much as companies tell us and 2k is a publicly traded company And so they released their quarterly reports telling us how much each game of their sold and how much new revenues coming in mba 2k 20 as of june 30th 2020 has sold 14 million units That was at the time and still for the game a career high But mba 2k 21 only sold 11 million units given that same time So even though it's still selling fantastic is no longer an upward trajectory And when you own stock for a company you start to get a little nervous when your previous year outperforms your current year People like to see that growth. So investors is a little nervous There's a lot that's changed and they want to ensure their investors that no this game is going to sell more guys So they pull out all the stops they're willing to do things that they weren't even considering before because There's no worse fate for a company than nervous investors That's all it takes for everything to just tank your the shares of your company tank And now your owning these stock that's worth a fraction of what they used to be worth All because investors got a little bit nervous Okay, but let me give you some context because you might still be thinking like ah, this is all circumstantials true All of this is circumstantial, but let's look at the previous launch for mba 2k Let's look at mba 2k 21. Why don't we mba 2k 21 launched their first trailer? Not the first time they announced the game or they told people to peer the first trailer for the game was launched june 11th 2020 that is more than two months removed and we are already more than two months past that day We have not yet received a trailer So why would 2k then decide to instead of over the span of three months over the span of three weeks Release all the information that has to do with the game. There's only two reasons my brain can compute ladies and gentlemen One either there's not much to talk about so they're like trying to stretch everything for as much as they can I don't believe that to be the case with two games launching and presumably new features in gameplay Like they haven't even started talking about things So they're not even at the point where they need to stretch information 2k has so many game modes There's so much depth to the games usually that they don't need to stretch They don't need to stretch I don't think that's it or what usually happens when a company is debating whether or not They should delay a game because they're not ready is they just hold off on everything And so what that usually looks like is you post some screenshots of Lonzo ball multiple times the same one to be exact And if you need some context from other large franchises that drop games yearly Let's look at call of duty who just today at timer recording on august 16th drop their trailer for call of duty vanguard And I haven't even gotten a chance to take a look at it That's how a new and fresh it is and that's for a game if we take a look here that's launching october 22nd So you don't need me to sit here and tell you over and over again How like three weeks is not enough to talk about all the things that risk to do with the game Usually 2k drops news at least some kind of news early to convince people to pre-order because they use your pre-order money And invest it to make more money So if you give them 70 dollars, but they take that 70 dollars put it in the market and get an 8% return Alexa, what's 8% of 70 dollars 8% of 70 Canadian dollars is five Canadian dollars and 60 cents They have now made 75 dollars and I know that five doesn't seem like a lot to you But when you and then millions of other people do it it adds up You don't have to look far in the gaming especially the sports space to remember Instances of games being delayed mba live is the most popular examples. They had delays with mba live 10 11 12 We didn't hear nothing 13 cancelled. There was delays with 17 I think there was well. There was some delays with the most recent one It was supposed to be some mba live 20 that never came out. So ea is like professionals at delaying in the sports space They're so good at it. They've perfected the art of delaying, but for 2k. This is brand new territory What what I do know is if I did have a bunch of information that can get people hyped I wouldn't release it unless I know for a hundred percent fact that the game is going to release And with two games coming out a truncated schedule The fact that everybody has to work from home is looking more and more likely every single day that goes by That this game might either get delayed or cancelled and I'm genuinely surprised that nobody's having that talk Unlike last year because I guess they overcame the odds last year and dropped a garbage product They did this year people just expect that even through the hurdles that there's nothing that's going to stop them from dropping this game But you have to remember like they can't have another year where they're dipping below what they did the previous year Investors is gonna fucking sprint in the opposite direction like these and what do we know about 2k guys? What's rule number one about 2k? They love their money. All right. I hope I'm wrong But man, we're three weeks away. You mean to tell me you're gonna tell me everything There is to know about two different games in three weeks. I don't believe if we are gonna hear something It's gonna have to happen in the next few days, bro Is it just will let me know how y'all feel about everything man in the comments down below if y'all enjoyed drop a like Subscribe to the channel to make click the big red button and click the bell So you get notified the next time I drop the video. I love y'all man. Appreciate y'all watching these videos I expect to see you guys in the comments. I will be reading them. Catch you guys in the next one. I'm out