In perhaps the least surprising news of the month, 2K has announced that NBA 2K25 is heading for Switch *gasp*. In September *double gasp*. With a confusingly large number of physical and digital editions *blacks out*.
Set to come our way on 6th September, NBA 2K25 will be graced by a trio of athletes depending on which edition you pick up. The Boston Celtics leading man Jason Tatum takes centre stage on the Standard Edition, Las Vegas Aces' A'ja Wilson is on the WNBA Edition and dunk champ Vince Carter gets golden on the Hall of Fame Edition.
To keep things simple, only two editions appear to be available on Switch: the Standard and 'All-Star' Edition. The latter will include all of the usual add-ons including 100,000 VC, a MyTEAM Promo Box, bonus MyCAREER content and more alongside the base game.
As for what will be different about this year's offering, we're still not sure. 2K25 will once again be missing a handful of 'New Gen' features on Switch, but MyCareer and MyTeam will make their expected returns. Our fingers are crossed that it's an improvement on the watered-down 2K24, but we're braced for disappointment...
Will you be picking up NBA 2K25 on Switch? Let us know in the comments.
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Not interested in NBA 2K and NBA in general.
But at this point, it is expected for the Switch to not have some of the same features that Xbox Series X and PS5 have. More or less, Switch will be the same as PS4 and Xbox One in terms of feature parity. And that’s okay.
I will always give props to 2K for making the Switch version on par with the PS4 and Xbox One versions from the beginnings unlike what EA did for MANY years until recently.
I speak for my fellow Iowa natives when I say, "something something Caitlin Clark something something".
Still need to get 2k24 out of my backlog.
Still can’t believe there’s not been an arcade-style title since Playgrounds 2. I maxed out my Magic players ages ago.
Vince Carter on the Legends cover is awesome to see. Seeing how teams could go decades without much identity and how the alternate expansion team, Vancouver Grizzlies, crashed and burned, Carter made Raptors fun to watch during his time and revitalized basketball. Despite being years well removed from the Championship team, there’s still an argument of him being the greatest Raptor.
NBA 2K23 & 24 were both over 55GB for just a basketball game yet a massive open world game like Zelda TOTK is only 16GB. The developer has no understanding of compression and unless they work this out and get the game under 20GB I won’t buy. I can’t justify using up that much of my precious storage for just a basketball game.
Oh neat! There is a WNBA edition? Will have to look into getting that.
Edit: WNBA edition seems to be GameStop only in the US. No Switch version. Looks like I will pick this up on Series X then.
Your new ushers at the latest 2K casino. They seem stoked.
Why dey make ladies so masculine in games dese days???
@LikelySatan The ladies are tired of being feminine, bro.
@DiamondJim Maybe they understand compression thoroughly, but they simply don't care about it or probably don't wanna invest the necessary time to perform it. Current gen game downloads of 70, 80gb are common for other systems, so I think they see a number like 55 and say "whoa, that's excellent!"
Ah, yes ...Casino Simulator 2K25 (with some basketball or whatever idk).
@DiamondJim : And who's got the space to allocate 50GB+ per year on just one of these games?! And if you've got kids with their own Switch consoles, that's another 50GB+ per console, and ultimately, such downloads can essentially balloon to 200GB+ for a single game, all because the tightarse publisher refused to put out a decent product.
"jUsT bUy a BiGgeR miCrOsD cArD" the corporate sycophants will bleat, but they're utterly blind to how these costs, that are passed on to the consumer, far exceed what it would have cost us had the publisher charged a slight premium for a larger capacity cartridge.
This is also the reason why I refused to buy FC24, even though it was on sale recently, because one 20GB download will ultimately amount to 80GB. For all of the faults of the "legacy edition" releases, I at least got a full playable game on the cartridge for my money (and the price, at least when on sale, was more than reasonable).
I’m an NBA 2K fan (been playing since 2K2 on the Dreamcast), but I rarely play sim sports games on Nintendo systems due to the usual system concessions/constraints (download sizes, downgraded graphics/performance, missing modes, gameplay changes, weak online etc.).
I prefer arcade sports games on Switch of which I’d like to see a new or remastered:
… just to name a few.
@wuntyme8 You had my attention at Def Jam Vendetta, but I would like the sequel - Fight for NY - as well.
Would somebody be kind enough to detail which specific features are not available on the Switch version? It's hard to find info for Switch version as all the attention is on the other platforms...
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