NBA Live 07 for PS3 launch

By Tom Bramwell Published 8 June, 2006

Along with other sporty games.

EA's planning to have more than one of its sports titles available at the launch of PlayStation 3, the company said yesterday.

That shouldn't come as a surprise obviously, as EA's typically very supportive of platform launches - even rustling up four games (of varying quality) for the Xbox 360's rollout last Christmas.

And that's not to mention the cringeworthy pledge of support made by EA head honcho Larry Probst at E3. "Kutaragi-san, thank you for your leadership and vision - you can count on EA's support every step of the way," he told an audience at Sony's conference. Blegh.

Anyway, the first confirmed title among those - and the centre of yesterday's announcement - was NBA Live 07, which is also due out on Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2, PSP and PC this autumn.

Oh, and apparently they simulated the NBA Finals using the game and Dallas Mavericks beat Miami Heat in seven games. Sads!

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Comments (14) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • theiceman #1 6 years ago

    First!
    I'm not a big fan of basketball but i'll will try it before i pay for it. looking forward to fight night personally. love to konk someone with a haymaker. Lights out baby!

  • markypants #2 6 years ago

    I want a good next gen B-Ball game. NBA 06 on Xbox 360 was an absoloute shocker! They basically removed everything from it and it was pretty much a tech demo... A tech demo of shiny/oily looking players. Nice.

  • rinoaMW #3 6 years ago

    EA - dribbles ;)

  • Blerk #4 6 years ago

    Hurrah. No, really.

  • NoCodeNed2 #5 6 years ago

    I liked the footplanting and the following-the-action stuff they demo'd.

    Shame I don't like/understand/care for basketball

  • Darren #6 6 years ago

    Oooooooooo NBA Live 07 how exciting!!! Can't wait.

    I'm being sarcastic, of course. NBA Live 06 on the Xbox 360 was one of its worst launch games, lacking in features with a shocking framerate and a camera that struggled to keep up with the action but then the Live games have never been that good anyway so it didn't really surprise me.

    I was a big fan of EA's sports games - yes, really - but now I'm getting ever-so slightly bored of them as they're just the same thing every year, nothing really improves in them apart from the graphics, the gameplay remains the same year-in year out, i.e. OK but having the same flaws every year.

  • myiagros #7 6 years ago

    hopefully this will actually be good, i haven't seen a decent "realistic" basketball game in years.

    \fingers crossed

  • tenma #8 6 years ago

    This is me not caring

  • Steroyd #9 6 years ago

    oh joy EA have no excuse to take out content on PS3 version because it has Blu-ray's extra storage. /chuckling sarcasm

    I wonder if EA's PS3 launch titles will ride the wave of Xbox 360's second gen titles we might actually see next gen EA titles this time round.

  • Have_to_Speak_Up #10 6 years ago

    Great... I've got £2.50 on Dallas to win that series!

  • Xerx3s #11 6 years ago

    A real systemseller. Anyway, can you still boast games on your launch list that are released simultaneously on other platforms or have already been released months before? :|

  • Steroyd #12 6 years ago

    A real systemseller. Anyway, can you still boast games on your launch list that are released simultaneously on other platforms or have already been released months before? :|

    MS did it while they claimed their "best launch ever" with 15 titles only 3 of those were exclusive, and 1 was built from scratch for the system.
    Edited by 1 at 08/06/06 @ 13:15

  • animal_mother #13 6 years ago

    An EA franchise to appear on PS3? Whoopee fucking doo.

  • Bates #14 6 years ago

    "MS did it while they claimed their "best launch ever" with 15 titles only 3 of those were exclusive, and 1 was built from scratch for the system."

    Best launch ever!1!

    lol