B-Ball Fans Rejoice, NBA 2K19 Is Dribbling Its Way To Nintendo Switch

Balls.

Good to see the support, but I wonder how many Switch owners are like me and think: "Got a Basketball game, got a football game, don't need to buy either again"?

Good to see 2K happy with switch performance.

Haven't had the chance to play any 2K game ever. I was looking forward to WWE 2K18, sucks that it was very bad. Can we upgrade NBA 2K18 to the 2K19 version or do we really have to but two separate games?

@MrGawain Well you've got to assume that Switch owners who buy football/basketball games aren't that different to PS or Xbox owners who do the same... and buy the new one every year.

@frabbit expect I am one of the ones who says that too. About a lot more then just sports games. Anything that gets a yearly installment, I typically only buy 1 per gen.

I almost picked this up on sale, but seeing that we getting another, I’ll wait for that one.

@Donutman I feel you. Well I buy Fifa every year on Playstation because that's the only way I can continue to play with my mates who also buy the new one every year. I suppose the fact that you can't actually play with your mates on Fifa Switch changes that equation a bit but I'm fully expecting that to be resolved next year and with the online service launching in September.

I think if you're only going to buy one per gen, you might have bought it one year too early!

@frabbit Apparently a lot of people buy nothing but a new FIFA/NBA/Madden/Manager every year. The sports videogaming community is a different beast from general core one.

@SmaggTheSmug True, I know people whose consoles are glorified Fifa and Netflix machines, but all I'm saying is that if they gave us Fifa 18 and nothing more I'd be pissed. I'd be happier if they gave us a game titles Fifa Switch and just updated it every year with new players, even at a cost, but that's just not the business model.

I might get this. I just hope they don't put "Internet download and microSD card required" on the box art like last year. I think that puts a lot of people off on buying the game. I can understand that it needs updates, but can't they just use a bigger cart to store all the data that the game needs so a microSD card is not needed?

@frabbit I the only soccer/football game I own is rocket league. I don’t play online as much as I play local with friends/kids so buying each installment just seems unnecessary for me. I’ll end up owning each type of sports game over couple years. But usually only 1 of each.

@Donutman Been getting into Rocket League myself recently! A lot more depth to it than I ever thought it would. I've not logged as many hours on that as Fifa just yet but it will overtake shortly I'm sure.

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I think this is the year I will pick this up. I usually skip a couple years but my kids are really getting into basketball now so seems like a good time. Now decision is do I get it on ps4 so I can play with my friends or switch so my kids can play with theirs 🤔

Now question, will this game release - not broken - at launch this time?

Irving isn’t on the cavs anymore

@danielman9 I ignored everything else and thought the same thing. I skipped last year's edition and got way more into basketball this year, so I'll definitely pick it up provided they learned their lessons regarding microtransactions.

College basketball >>> NBA

Shhhh... the current one is on sale. Don’t ruin 2K’s plans 🤔

@Freek 😲

@Heavyarms55 great question.

I just bought 18 due to their shenanigans and the sale. So I'm good till 2020.

This is hugely exciting news for me. I've put in nearly 400 hours on the Switch version of 2k and being untethered from the TV is revolutionary. I have this full-on basketball simulation in my hands. Yes, the 60fps on the other home consoles makes for a much smoother game, but for my single-player fantasy/day dream needs what 2k provided us last year was not only a dream come true but it was more than I ever expected. I was prepared to continue playing 2k18 throughout the life of the Switch b/c I didn't think we'd get another run but HOLEE WOW I am thrilled. Game of the System for me. It keeps me happy. Thank you 2k.

It took them months to get NBA 2K18 at a decent state, and even now after all of their updates it still has some significant issues (such as parts of clothes going inside the character models and so on which can make the game look really bad).

I would definitely wait for them to patch this game up and put it on sale before I would consider upgrading. 2K has a terrible track record on the Switch at this point, it is nice that they are making games for it but so far the quality of their ports has left a lot to be desired. It also doesn't help how the career mode was a total bust in 2K18. I got one of the special editions for the game because I loved the career mode in the past, but after having 2K18, never again. I wound up never using half the points I had and never had any desire to play the career mode after I tried to get into it.

I would be more interested if they didnt require 5GB of internal memory for a player save file, and packed the game itself on a bigger game card instead of a measely 8GB one and require a 16GB+ download for physical release buyers.

hmmm...how are the microtransactions in this version? Time will tell. Cool to see that they are still bring the series back if this is true.

@flapjack-ashley Yeah that kind of packaging is why I was a bit weary about pre-ordering Wolfenstein 2 game.

@Leostacks I don’t know if I’ll pick it up or not

Nintendo fans generally don’t play or pay attention to nba,nfl,mlb.

@MrGawain I guess it depends on if you bought those games just to have a couple sports games in your collection or if you're actually a fan and follow them and want the latest games. Also, just because FUT streamers might not pick up the Switch version doesn't mean Nintendo fans aren't also sports fans, that's a weird inaccurate generalization.

@flapjack-ashley Preach man Preach! That killed my memory. Had to go buy a 64gb sd card because of it.

I recently bought 2k18 to feel how it runs...
Glad I did... it's awesome!
Getting 2k19 for sure!