Prizefighter release date practically official

by pastapadre
Posted March 21st, 2008 at 4:28 pm

Yesterday I speculated that Don King Presents: Prizefighter appeared to be headed for a June release. Later in the morning retailers such as Gamestop, EB Games, and Gamefly updated their release date to June 10th for the 360. The Wii and DS versions of the game apparently won’t be coming until later this year as they have a September placeholder.

While 2K Sports has yet to give a specific date for the game (likely won’t see that until it is attached to a press release) there is little reason not to believe this has become the targeted date for the game. I laid out several reasons why I felt it had slipped into June and those all match up. It certainly seems that there was some information distributed to retailers because it would be quite the coincidence that more than one would update at the same time with the same specific date.

Now comes news that the “Meet Me in St. Louis” event will be broadcast for free on Don King’s new official internet TV network on Thursday March 27th. The event is sponsored by Prizefighter which is explicitly stated as releasing on June 10th. There will possibly be advertisements that display that during the broadcast as this appears to be the first promotional opportunity they are taking advantage of for the game. There was also a trailer released today on the website that was quickly removed. That may be what is used next week during the broadcast.

The only thing about the date is that EA Sports is set to release Nascar 09 on June 10th as well. If Prizefighter ends up being an EA game (depending on how the purchase attempt of Take Two plays out) I wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up falling back a couple weeks. But for now it appears that the 360 version of Prizefighter has settled on that June 10th date.

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DLane

Kinda sucks that it wont be for PS3, any reason why?
DLane

Kinda sucks that it wont be for PS3, any reason why?
DLane

Kinda sucks that it wont be for PS3, any reason why?
agent k

It’s really annoying to develop and program for. A lot of PS3 games get delayed because the developer puts games on a 360 timetable. There needs to be time set aside for PS3 based delays. GTA IV is one example:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/rockstar-finally-pins-gta-iv-delay-on-ps3-er-it-was-a-contrib/

The Orange Box is another. I guess 2k didn’t want to deal with that. It is not that big of a factor though if they would just have a realistic timetable for PS3 games.
agent k

It’s really annoying to develop and program for. A lot of PS3 games get delayed because the developer puts games on a 360 timetable. There needs to be time set aside for PS3 based delays. GTA IV is one example:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/rockstar-finally-pins-gta-iv-delay-on-ps3-er-it-was-a-contrib/

The Orange Box is another. I guess 2k didn’t want to deal with that. It is not that big of a factor though if they would just have a realistic timetable for PS3 games.
agent k

It’s really annoying to develop and program for. A lot of PS3 games get delayed because the developer puts games on a 360 timetable. There needs to be time set aside for PS3 based delays. GTA IV is one example:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/rockstar-finally-pins-gta-iv-delay-on-ps3-er-it-was-a-contrib/

The Orange Box is another. I guess 2k didn’t want to deal with that. It is not that big of a factor though if they would just have a realistic timetable for PS3 games.
The Saint

Pasta, any chance you saw the Prizefighter trailer that was put up on Don King’s website by mistake? What are your thoughts about it? They had it removed immediately, i guess it wasn’t time but mods at the 2K forums say the video will be out soon. I missed the video.
The Saint

Pasta, any chance you saw the Prizefighter trailer that was put up on Don King’s website by mistake? What are your thoughts about it? They had it removed immediately, i guess it wasn’t time but mods at the 2K forums say the video will be out soon. I missed the video.
pastapadre

[quote comment="15939"]Pasta, any chance you saw the Prizefighter trailer that was put up on Don King’s website by mistake? What are your thoughts about it? They had it removed immediately, i guess it wasn’t time but mods at the 2K forums say the video will be out soon. I missed the video.[/quote]

It looked alright. The graphics basically just looked decent not anything special there. Showed some of the foot movement but not as actual gameplay and you got to see a ref in the ring. The fighter’s movement wasn’t fluid in the same way that Fight Night wasn’t. In fact it looked really similar to Fight Night in that regard. If people didn’t know it was a different game I bet they would’ve assumed it was Fight Night footage. Overall it wasn’t anything to get thrilled over. To me the most interesting aspect of the game is the career/story angle and that wasn’t really displayed in the trailer.
pastapadre

[quote comment="15939"]Pasta, any chance you saw the Prizefighter trailer that was put up on Don King’s website by mistake? What are your thoughts about it? They had it removed immediately, i guess it wasn’t time but mods at the 2K forums say the video will be out soon. I missed the video.[/quote]

It looked alright. The graphics basically just looked decent not anything special there. Showed some of the foot movement but not as actual gameplay and you got to see a ref in the ring. The fighter’s movement wasn’t fluid in the same way that Fight Night wasn’t. In fact it looked really similar to Fight Night in that regard. If people didn’t know it was a different game I bet they would’ve assumed it was Fight Night footage. Overall it wasn’t anything to get thrilled over. To me the most interesting aspect of the game is the career/story angle and that wasn’t really displayed in the trailer.
pastapadre

[quote comment="15939"]Pasta, any chance you saw the Prizefighter trailer that was put up on Don King’s website by mistake? What are your thoughts about it? They had it removed immediately, i guess it wasn’t time but mods at the 2K forums say the video will be out soon. I missed the video.[/quote]

It looked alright. The graphics basically just looked decent not anything special there. Showed some of the foot movement but not as actual gameplay and you got to see a ref in the ring. The fighter’s movement wasn’t fluid in the same way that Fight Night wasn’t. In fact it looked really similar to Fight Night in that regard. If people didn’t know it was a different game I bet they would’ve assumed it was Fight Night footage. Overall it wasn’t anything to get thrilled over. To me the most interesting aspect of the game is the career/story angle and that wasn’t really displayed in the trailer.
Eski

I need to see videos, demos, etc before I buy this game. 2K already burned me on MLB 2K8….
Eski

I need to see videos, demos, etc before I buy this game. 2K already burned me on MLB 2K8….
The Saint

[quote comment="15943"][quote comment="15939"]Pasta, any chance you saw the Prizefighter trailer that was put up on Don King’s website by mistake? What are your thoughts about it? They had it removed immediately, i guess it wasn’t time but mods at the 2K forums say the video will be out soon. I missed the video.[/quote]

It looked alright. The graphics basically just looked decent not anything special there. Showed some of the foot movement but not as actual gameplay and you got to see a ref in the ring. The fighter’s movement wasn’t fluid in the same way that Fight Night wasn’t. In fact it looked really similar to Fight Night in that regard. If people didn’t know it was a different game I bet they would’ve assumed it was Fight Night footage. Overall it wasn’t anything to get thrilled over. To me the most interesting aspect of the game is the career/story angle and that wasn’t really displayed in the trailer.[/quote]

I heard that the brief trailer showed movement that is similar to the Victorious Boxers games (are you familiar with that, Pasta? It’s based off an anime but by far it is the most fluid and lifelike representation of boxing, outside of the cartoon graphics), but slower. Do you agree?
The Saint

[quote comment="15943"][quote comment="15939"]Pasta, any chance you saw the Prizefighter trailer that was put up on Don King’s website by mistake? What are your thoughts about it? They had it removed immediately, i guess it wasn’t time but mods at the 2K forums say the video will be out soon. I missed the video.[/quote]

It looked alright. The graphics basically just looked decent not anything special there. Showed some of the foot movement but not as actual gameplay and you got to see a ref in the ring. The fighter’s movement wasn’t fluid in the same way that Fight Night wasn’t. In fact it looked really similar to Fight Night in that regard. If people didn’t know it was a different game I bet they would’ve assumed it was Fight Night footage. Overall it wasn’t anything to get thrilled over. To me the most interesting aspect of the game is the career/story angle and that wasn’t really displayed in the trailer.[/quote]

I heard that the brief trailer showed movement that is similar to the Victorious Boxers games (are you familiar with that, Pasta? It’s based off an anime but by far it is the most fluid and lifelike representation of boxing, outside of the cartoon graphics), but slower. Do you agree?
The Saint

[quote comment="15943"][quote comment="15939"]Pasta, any chance you saw the Prizefighter trailer that was put up on Don King’s website by mistake? What are your thoughts about it? They had it removed immediately, i guess it wasn’t time but mods at the 2K forums say the video will be out soon. I missed the video.[/quote]

It looked alright. The graphics basically just looked decent not anything special there. Showed some of the foot movement but not as actual gameplay and you got to see a ref in the ring. The fighter’s movement wasn’t fluid in the same way that Fight Night wasn’t. In fact it looked really similar to Fight Night in that regard. If people didn’t know it was a different game I bet they would’ve assumed it was Fight Night footage. Overall it wasn’t anything to get thrilled over. To me the most interesting aspect of the game is the career/story angle and that wasn’t really displayed in the trailer.[/quote]

I heard that the brief trailer showed movement that is similar to the Victorious Boxers games (are you familiar with that, Pasta? It’s based off an anime but by far it is the most fluid and lifelike representation of boxing, outside of the cartoon graphics), but slower. Do you agree?
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I can’t really say, I only watched it once and then was trying to find a way to save the video before it got removed. I just remember thinking it lacked fluidity in movement. Looked similar to Fight Night in that way.
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I can’t really say, I only watched it once and then was trying to find a way to save the video before it got removed. I just remember thinking it lacked fluidity in movement. Looked similar to Fight Night in that way.
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I can’t really say, I only watched it once and then was trying to find a way to save the video before it got removed. I just remember thinking it lacked fluidity in movement. Looked similar to Fight Night in that way.
The Saint

Pasta can you verify that this is the official cover for Prizefighter?

http://www.2ksports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167423
The Saint

Pasta can you verify that this is the official cover for Prizefighter?

http://www.2ksports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167423
The Saint

Pasta can you verify that this is the official cover for Prizefighter?

http://www.2ksports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167423
scott Carpenter

There will be a ps3 version but not until later, much like fight night rd 3…
Because the PS3 has way more advanced graphics.
scott Carpenter

There will be a ps3 version but not until later, much like fight night rd 3…
Because the PS3 has way more advanced graphics.
http://NONE scott Carpenter

There will be a ps3 version but not until later, much like fight night rd 3…
Because the PS3 has way more advanced graphics.
Darren

Don King Presents: Prizefighter Boxing [Wii] or Don King : Boxing [Wii] 2 different games ?
Darren

Don King Presents: Prizefighter Boxing [Wii] or Don King : Boxing [Wii] 2 different games ?
Darren

Don King Presents: Prizefighter Boxing [Wii] or Don King : Boxing [Wii] 2 different games ?