NCAA Basketball 09 Release Date Change (Confirmed)
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Both Gamefly and Amazon have changed the release date for NCAA Basketball 09 to Tuesday November 18th. While there is no confirmation of a push up in release for the game it does seem curious that two retailers would change it from the previously announced December 3rd with both settling on a date two weeks earlier. Currently the official website for the game and Gamestop still display NCAA as releasing in the first week of December.
Occasionally release dates on retail sites will fluctuate. However with a specific date having already been publicized it seems as though there would have to be a reason for them to go out of their way to change it. Both sites doing so would indicate that possibly some new information had been received. We’ll have to wait for official word on this and I’ll see if I can find out further information.
If the game is done and ready to go there would be little reason to hold it. By releasing on the 18th it would be out in time for Black Friday. This will basically be the newest sports title heading into the holidays with EA Sports hoping to pick up fans of the abandoned College Hoops series. Releasing it in mid-November, around the same time that CH has released the past few years, would seem a pretty smart move.
Update: My instincts were correct. The release date is confirmed to now be November 18th.
October 21, 2008 at 6:28 pm
first
and is there gonna be a demo out?
October 21, 2008 at 7:04 pm
[quote comment="42805"]first
and is there gonna be a demo out?[/quote]
i hope so, there was last year. i didn’t like last year’s much, and the online community for this game wasn’t too good, although it wasn’t a great game. When you’re favorite part of a game is the fact that it contains Erin Andrews, you know something’s wrong with it.
October 21, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Man bring it on if they changed the date to the 18 of nov it would be comming out just in time around college basketball season. And will there be rosters to download this year and will all the schools be added like ( winston salem st, and etc)
October 21, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I would be shocked if there isn’t a demo. I would think that if the game is coming out mid-November that a demo would be released a week before hand.
I am getting a bit gun shy about NCAA as there hasn’t been a whole lot of information in terms of what the game contains in terms of modes, etc. The screen shots look similar to last year’s game. I also hope the jerseys were fixed. Last year, the numbers were too small….
October 21, 2008 at 10:05 pm
I hope they didnt revamp the gameplay it played fine and hopefully it doesnt play like live. probably play something like live but have its own flavor.
October 21, 2008 at 10:46 pm
yup yup… the moment 2k has problems you hop on it but with EA u take 2 to 4 days…. but when it comes to gameplay u praise EAs whose gameplays is inferior to 2ks…… figures
October 21, 2008 at 10:47 pm
im biased after playing hrs upon hrs of association 2.0 so dont listen to me
October 22, 2008 at 12:29 am
[quote comment="42816"]yup yup… the moment 2k has problems you hop on it but with EA u take 2 to 4 days…. but when it comes to gameplay u praise EAs whose gameplays is inferior to 2ks…… figures[/quote]
As much as I like what Pasta does for everyone, sometimes his EA bias just is ridiculous.
October 22, 2008 at 12:31 am
Look for another EA title with disappointments and annoying glitches and bugs.
No competition= lazy game development
October 22, 2008 at 6:29 am
I am just pissed that I will only be seeing PG#10 instead of Flynn when playing online……………………..that really sucks.
October 22, 2008 at 6:30 am
[quote comment="42821"]Look for another EA title with disappointments and annoying glitches and bugs.
No competition= lazy game development[/quote]
Yeah, ummmmm, OK. Name me a company who DOESN’T release games w/bugs and glitches……..lately.
October 22, 2008 at 7:12 am
ALEXGUY96 – At the NCAA Basketball 09 Community Event, they stated they were planning on releasing a demo.
October 22, 2008 at 7:22 am
Coming out 2 weeks early? That is a very bad idea. They need to take the 2 weeks and put more polish on the game, and find more bugs. They are being greedy if they are pushing up this release date. Good luck to those who buy this, another EA Sports game that plays like feces.
October 22, 2008 at 8:35 am
What is two weeks going to do in terms of development? Not much. The game is probably already finished or close to it.
EA, although not perfect, does a good job of giving the college games a different feel that the pro counterparts…
October 22, 2008 at 8:50 am
I wont ever buy another EA basketball game. They blow like the wind, PP Do u kno if there will b another College Hoops game ? Like CH2k10? or 11? Im hoping they jus takin a year off but i doubt it
October 22, 2008 at 11:25 am
Pasta will you be releasing a roster file for this game much like you did for NCAA 09?
I really hope so.
October 22, 2008 at 12:40 pm
that would be spectacular if they moved it up to Nov-18. That would be the smart thing to do.
October 22, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I wont be buying it, Il try the demo, but EA’s basketball games are just too bug riddles, features dont work properly, GAMEPLAY is lackluster, never get SIM stats, bland presentation…all while having the ESPN/NCAA license etc.
Plus no named rosters online…. OS forums already have people updating CH 2k8 rosters to reflect 2009, and that has great gameplay, etc. Im sticking wiht CH 2k8/9 for for college fix.
October 22, 2008 at 1:57 pm
[quote comment="42828"]ALEXGUY96 – At the NCAA Basketball 09 Community Event, they stated they were planning on releasing a demo.[/quote]
yes!!! thanx cdj.
October 22, 2008 at 9:19 pm
I feel it was a smart marketing move to push up the release date. I think I will give this game a shot. It seems like they are puttting forth a decent effort, plus i already traded in CH2K8. I have NBA 2K9 and i wouldnt mind playing a bball game on a different gameplay engine. Eventhough 2K’s engine is superior, the EA engine isn’t as bad as some people make it seem. Plus EA claimed they would make improvements to the engine after the Live release.
October 23, 2008 at 8:19 am
NCAA has the Live engine and will be fine tuned, also people go to operation sports or ncaa strategies and there are like 3 producer bolgs regarding the game. Just reading those blogs will have you atleast interested enough to give it a try.
November 10, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I like the demo. I hope this game comes out in November, I really want to buy it