When I first watch NBA games as a kid I didn't think anyone could possibly missed a potential slam dunk for a sure-fire two points but it's possible. The ball hitting the wrong side of rim on its way down sometimes just bounced off in the opposite direction flying as fast as a hard dunk. In a way EA sports missed a potential slam dunk when they did both parties (ps3/xbox and wii) injustice for their highly-anticipated reboot of the NBA Jam brand.
EA are indeed bringing the game to the ps3 and 360 but as a downloadable-content if you purchased NBA Elite 2011 for the respective platform. The catch is it isn't the full version of the NBA Jam game on the Wii and NBA Elite isn't really that good of a basketball game according long-time hoop gamers. So Nintendo loses another exclusive third-party game while Sony and Microsoft gets a real boost for NBA Elite especially since the game wouldn't have any resell value as the downloadable code for NBA Jam is for use one-time only. It's like EA sports is trying to please everyone but just end up upsetting everyone instead, ps3/360 are getting a gimped version of NBA Jam while Wii owners are no longer enjoying an exclusive third-party game. I was initially planning to get the Wii version if it was exclusive then decided to go for the ps3 version since it would probably be cheaper as a downable game on PSN. It's not going to be available for purchase on psn or xbox live so it's likely i won't be able to find anyone to play with since online mode for the wii version is still unconfirmed.
EA are indeed bringing the game to the ps3 and 360 but as a downloadable-content if you purchased NBA Elite 2011 for the respective platform. The catch is it isn't the full version of the NBA Jam game on the Wii and NBA Elite isn't really that good of a basketball game according long-time hoop gamers. So Nintendo loses another exclusive third-party game while Sony and Microsoft gets a real boost for NBA Elite especially since the game wouldn't have any resell value as the downloadable code for NBA Jam is for use one-time only. It's like EA sports is trying to please everyone but just end up upsetting everyone instead, ps3/360 are getting a gimped version of NBA Jam while Wii owners are no longer enjoying an exclusive third-party game. I was initially planning to get the Wii version if it was exclusive then decided to go for the ps3 version since it would probably be cheaper as a downable game on PSN. It's not going to be available for purchase on psn or xbox live so it's likely i won't be able to find anyone to play with since online mode for the wii version is still unconfirmed.
Looks like EA Sports just lost a lot of potential sale of NBA Jam on the Wii though it probably won't hurt having a free game included with NBA Elite. This feels like EA's payback for Dead Space Extraction poor performance on the Wii platform but surely nobody deserves to be treated like this, Wii and ps3/360 owners alike.
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