Joyce Williams
English 101-2CD
10/10/13
NBA2K Series The NBA2K series is the best basketball simulation game in history. “It began in 1999 to 2001 were it was exclusive to Sega Dreamcast.” The NBA2K series was published by Sega Sports, now it’s published by 2ksports. The developers for this game are the visual concept team from Los Angeles. This game can be located in stores such as Wal-Mart, GameStop, and etc. NBA2K has been seen in many magazines Dime, Sports Illustrated, and the Slam magazine. 2K is now worldwide they are on billboards around the country; they have commercials on television, YouTube, and basketball ads. NBA2K uses NBA superstars to promote their product and they produce tangible items such as t-shirts. NBA2K also has partnerships with Nike, Jordan, Adidas, Reebok, and etc. These partnerships help widespread their production better sales.
Fans always loved the designs of the 2k covers.NBA2k lets the fans vote on whom they want to see on the cover of their games so the fans won’t be disappointed. Most of the NBA2k games always have the company name centered on the cartridge with the year and the NBA star they chose under it. This year for their new game NBA2K 14 they had NBA superstar Lebron James on the cover with an all red background design with him doing his signature powder toss move.
2K wants everyone to play and enjoy their games that why it is rated E for everyone. 2K wants the world to know it is the most dominate company when making basketball simulation games. There has been literally no competition for NBA2K because no other company has made a basketball game in since 2011 according to IGN news. NBA2K has the best-selling basketball game for the past six years according to vgchartz. 2K gets its message out by promoting and having a quality product every year. I think NBA2K is worth the cost because the game is very exciting. 2K’s sells have sky rocketed since 2005 because of popularity. Many people buy