We're hoping to bring you the top simulation experience

The Wizards DG was able leverage the experience of Wizards and Mystics in NBA2king drafting players with certain traits that are likely to predict future success. This is quite an accomplishment for a game that once was second in importance to Electronic Arts' NBA Live. It's outperformed the franchise as per Strauss Zelnick of Take-Two Interactive. He also said that success does not depend on how well the league performs.

He says that NBA2K is nowadays an entertainment platform. "Once there was a time when it was an add-on to the experience. If you go back to when there was a lockout [in 2011], that affected us. We escaped the pandemic even though no basketball was being played. We were better than average."

The game's success will be measured as the PlayStation 5 (and Xbox Series X) versions are made available. Like many other games, 2K Sports opted to develop two separate versions of the game. This poses a risk particularly with the tiny amount of installs that are a part of the new launch of the game. Developers wanted to highlight exclusive features in these games.

"The team wanted to build an entirely new title from beginning," says Zelnick. "We believe it's awe-inspiring. There's a brand new experience known as the City it's The Park taken to another level. ... We're hoping to bring you the top simulation experience and the most engaging cultural basketball lifestyle experience. This is the kind of thing NBA2K is known for.

While Take-Two is willing to do that with NBA2K However, it's unable to move in the same way as its other top-of-the-line titles. Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 will be playable with backward compatibility on Buy MT 2K22 PS4 both the next-gen systems, whereas the new version of GTA V, as well as the standalone version of GTA Online, won't be available until the second half of the year.