2K Sports gives up on College Hoops series

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2K Sports gives up on College Hoops series

Posted Jan 15th 2008 1:15PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News

In a surprising turn of events, 2K Sports has confirmed that they've stopped development on College Hoops 2K9, which was originally scheduled for a November release. Why the sudden cancellation? According to 2K, they couldn't negotiate a fitting deal with the Collegiate Licensing Company (licensee of over 200 college trademarks) and say that they would have loved to create College Hoops, "but given our disciplined approach to the business, we do not believe the current discussions would result in an acceptable outcome". The rabbit hole gets deeper as rumors are swirling that the CLC's relationship with EA (and their NCAA March Madness franchise) has caused them to act unfairly in negotiations with 2K. In other words, the CLC could be cheating on 2K! Gasp! Whatever the reason, we know that there will be no College Hoops 2K9, so everyone will have to settle for March Madness. So much drama ...

[Via Game Stooge]

Tags: 2k, 2k-sports, college-hoops, college-hoops-2k9

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1-16-2008 @ 11:23AM

Josh said...

i've said it before and i'll say it again. exclusive licensing of sports is beneficial to NOBODY, except the companies involved. we, the consumers, get screwed.. royally

i'll go ahead and put most of the blame on the sports organizations. nfl, mlb, and now the clc can all suck it. greedy jerks.

1-16-2008 @ 12:00PM

Jonah Falcon said...

Considering Madden '08 was a disaster, exclusivity doesn't necessarily mean more sales anymore.

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