EA Leaving Money on the Table with NBA Jam for PS3/Xbox 360?

As RPadholic smartguy mentioned yesterday, you have to buy NBA Elite 11 in order to play NBA Jam for PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. Depending on your perspective, the scheme is either genius or moronic. Certainly there are some gamers that want to play both games, but I know loads of gamers that love arcade sports and can’t stand simulation sports. My old sidekick Brian Leahy is one of them. He wrote:

Personally, I’m interested in playing NBA Jam on my PS3 or Xbox 360, but I’m not about to drop $60 on NBA Elite 11 to do so. I am, however, willing to pay $10 or $15 for NBA Jam itself.

Not sold as a standalone, I think EA is leaving money on the table.

That boy is wise beyond his years….

Anyway, what do you think of EA’s ploy? Is it clever? Or is it just dumb? Do you think EA will eventually sell NBA Jam through PSN and Xbox Live? Do you think the company has it planned out and is being dishonest by claiming NBA Elite is the only way to get NBA Jam on the aforementioned platforms? Conspiracy!!!

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13 thoughts on “EA Leaving Money on the Table with NBA Jam for PS3/Xbox 360?”

  1. I think it's pretty shady of EA to do something like this but they're on a roll. I think they're trying to give Kotick some competition. Honestly, if people don't buy Elite and state that the reason why it's because of they want NBA Jam only but not the sports sim part of it; I believe they will eventually break down and make it available on the PSN and XBL.

  2. I think it's dumb.

    The main people who will NBA Elite 11 probably won't care so much about NBA Jam. The main people who will want NBA Jam are the nostalgia gamers who want to relive the days of standing in the arcade, dropping a quarter on the machine to mark your place in line, and hearing Marv Albert repeatedly say "He's on fire".

    Another bad move EA.

  3. They are going to leave it as-is for a while to give a bit more incentive to buy the game. But I give it 3 months before sales slow and Jam hits PSN & XBL just to rake in any extra money from people not willing to buy the other full priced game.

  4. @Arcade sports

    Someone seriously needs to bring back Hitz & Blitz series. Those were fun. And as always we some Mutant League games back.

    I am tired of simulation games I just want something that is as fun to watch as it is to play.

  5. Def $$ on the table. I wonder if you have to have NBA Elite in the disc drive to play it?

  6. @smartguy

    i think you're going to be able to dl onto your hard drive, like dlc. they're just giving you a code to do it for free.

  8. I agree with the above posts.

    If I wanted to play NBA Delete I would buy the game. But I don't so they wont, be getting my money. NBA Jam as a stand alone game is a purchase for me.

  10. Let's face it, NBA 2K has been the better of the sim basket ball games for a few years now. With EA retooling the gameplay for Elite, they're obviously hoping that the added value from NBA Jam will get them some sales away from 2K. But as Ray mentioned, sim and arcade sports gamers don't necessarily overlap as much as EA is betting on with this move.

    I do think that NBA Jam has a nostalgia kick that other arcade sports games would not though. I mean, if there's a new version of The Bigs next year, it's not gonna make people run to MLB 2K over The Show because there's been a more recent version released just last year.

    It's certainly an interesting gamble, that's for sure.

  11. @Slicky

    Hitz was off the chain. I liked the old Slugfest games too, but they would have a hard time competing with The Bigs.

    @Topic

    Only If I can play as Mr. Clinton will I think about purchasing the stand alone NBA Jam.

  13. This is not surprising. We're talking about EA here, creators of the "screw-the-customers-over" DRM and "charge-for-things-that-used-to-be-free" microtransactions.

    For the record, I don't think it's necessarily "costing" EA anything to hold the license to NBA Jam. The title, after all, has made the bulk of all the money it's ever going to make short of a complete re-design and of course, that would cost money. So, EA is betting that dangling this nostalgic carrot in front of rosy-eyed gamers will be enough to get them to purchase NBA Elite. Sure, EA could make some money if they sold it as a stand-alone XBL or PSN title, but they have the potential to make even more money if they can swindle those buyers into purchasing a more expensive product. And at the end of the day, EA is all about the "make more money potential" thing.

    -M

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