It’s only been a week since the NBA Elite 11 demo went live and now EA Sports’ president Peter Moore released a statement today announcing the delay of the upcoming basketball game. Feedback from the community in regards to the demo and also realizing that they are on an upswing from last year’s title were among the reasons EA decided to delay the game. Having played the demo many times, I’ve seen some issues that the final version could have but I’ve also seen a lot of promise the franchise has. This is why I’m actually glad they are going to delay it.

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Today EA Sports announced that all new copies of NBA Elite will come packaged with NBA Jam. This is the same deal where you have to buy it new to get the code to download it but that’s one hell of an incentive to buy it new. There will three modes of NBA Jam included with NBA Elite, one of which is an online mode. NBA 2K11 has Jordan on the cover and now NBA Elite has NBA Jam, the competition is heating up. Along with this announcement EA also talked about the improved physics system and the new control scheme, check out the video interview.

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