
What we found was that a lot of the team stuff, a lot of the animation stuff we were doing - I’m talking about refreshing the animation and making the game feel better - that’s stuff translated to both games. So one of the things that we did early is we really started trying to figure out as this new game started being created, ‘how much of this do we want to give both generations?’ And the truth was we didn’t want to give we wanted it to be so different but we also had so many fans. You have guys who are building technology behind you and you have to plan out how that technology is going to be used by your aspects of the game. In the long and short of it, you don’t sleep. How do you go from a current generation to a next generation while putting out a current generation game at the same time?

I was able to sit down and talk to 2K Sports senior producer Rob Jones about the difficulties in trying to make the same game for different generations of consoles while trying to accomplish the goals of the aspects that were unveiled in the presentation.Įye on Basketball: You’ve been working on this for a very long time. The biggest parts of the next generation of the NBA 2K franchise are emotions affecting rhythm of the game, the movement of players to be more realistic, and in-game coaching strategies that will attempt to make it a more realistic NBA experience by factoring in the coaching styles and available adjustments you'd see from many NBA coaches.
#NBA 2K14 NEXT GENERATION PS4#
I attended the event, watched videos of new aspects in the basketball game thanks to the better technology, and got to play it on the PS4 for a few minutes.

The video game company has had one of the best selling sports games for years and is looking to build upon that success while working with the new technology platforms in the XBox One and PlayStation 4 systems that will be unleashed on the market in November. This past week, 2K Sports invited a bunch of media members (from the gaming and basketball world) to San Francisco to check out the next generation version of NBA 2K14.
