Over on his official EA.com blog, EA Sports President and arm-tattoo model Peter Moore has announced that NBA Elite 11—the comprehensive reboot and reworking of the NBA Live franchise—would not be making its launch date next week. Citing that the game simply “isn’t ready yet,” and that additional play testing and polish is needed on the title, Moore revealed that EA is pushing Elite out of October, with no available timeframe to indicate the game's new release date.
 
 

NBA ELITE had the benefit of play-testing, a demo and a lot of our own research.  All that feedback revealed some concerns about gameplay polish, so we’ve listened to your feedback, and made a judgment that the game would benefit from more time in development.

Over on his official EA.com blog, EA Sports President and arm-tattoo model Peter Moore has announced that NBA Elite 11—the comprehensive reboot and reworking of the NBA Live franchise—would not be making its launch date next week. Citing that the game simply “isn’t ready yet,” and that additional play testing and polish is needed on the title, Moore revealed that EA is pushing Elite out of October, with no available timeframe to indicate the game's new release date.
 
 

NBA ELITE had the benefit of play-testing, a demo and a lot of our own research.  All that feedback revealed some concerns about gameplay polish, so we’ve listened to your feedback, and made a judgment that the game would benefit from more time in development.

Thank god. NBA Jam is all I need.

Awesome...I was only interested in Jam.

I'm not surprised and sort of disappointed, since this was from the same guy who turned around their NHL franchise..

And that wraps up the latest episode of "As the NBA Jam turns".

They should have put out Jam as a separate XBLA/PSN title in the first place. That may sell better than Elite if it ever comes out.

I almost pissed myself watching that video.  Hilarious.

Another reason to get NBA 2k11? :)

 standalone nba jam hd ftw

This is the most good Game Room ever did. Now you can all cancel your pre-orders :P

"Something's wrong with my gawddamn buttons. Shit's crazy."

" @dexterslu:  Same here. But it sounds like reactions to the NBA Elite demo have been a lot like the video I posted in the story: pretty negative across the board. 
 
Oh well, at least you've still got Pure to play, right? "

At least from that picture it looks like they got Kevin Garnett's goatee right.

MAN i played the 360 demo last weekend MANNNN WHAT THE FUCK MANNNNNN... Who's bright idea was it to put the pass button on the triggers!!!!??! I mean really.. THE TRIGGERS!?!?.  I haven't enjoyed a nba games since the ps2 games. Once live 2006 came out EA took their basketball games into a new direction that i wasn't a big fan of.  Also THAT VIDEO DROVE ME TO TEARS. "Dude standing in the middle of the court like Jesus" AHAHAHAH

Moore may as well have come out and said it's a busted piece of shit
He'd probably have a lot moore credibility
 
Big question, will Jesus be playable in NBA Jam?

Please ship all the features from the Wii version in the Xbox 360 version! I would like very much to buy that from you EA!

Fuck YES all I want out of life is another NBA Jam

I can just imagine the amount of Elite 11 copies that would have found their way into the 2nd - hand bin only days after launch. 
 
Was anyone actually going to buy Elite for Elite?

" "We’ve listened to your feedback, and made a judgment that the game would benefit from more time in development."  Everyone raise your hand if you thought you were crazy when reading this from a developer. :/ That's mad weird but totally awesome that that's even being said/done. "

It would be nice if they added the "campaign" to this but that wont happen.  Hopefully they wont try to charge more than it's worth because it's now a standalone.

I was actually going to buy it

Broken Avatar at 2:27 on the video. 
 
I thought Game Room was the only one, but i guess it's widespread.

Yeah, sounds like Elite isn't that great right now...

this is kind of a bummer, I actually liked the demo a lot.  hopefully this makes the final product better, though

Now that the problems that are synonymous with Game Room are also in this, I will be getting this. 

Awesome move EA. Should be applauded.

That's actually awesome.  Not many publishers have the balls to delay their annual sports game. Good on EA for this. 

I kinda feel bad for the Elite team, I mean really? Did anyone ever care about anything except Jam?

more like nba-DELETE hahhahah.. i kill myself 

Whoever thought it was a good idea to release a demo of the game in its current state probably shouldn't be working at EA anymore.  But I'm glad he/she did because that video was f-ing awesome.

*clap* *clap* *clap* that does not happen with EA Sports games. The fact that they are willing to delay it to work on improving the gameplay speaks volumes to how they are trying to launch this right and distance themselves from the old franchise. I mean I'm not really going to buy it; like most people on this website I was only really interested in Jam and the Wii version seems like the better option. Either that or they failed certification and they are not actually working on gameplay; I would like to believe that it is for the gameplay though.

I have to say, the game demo was way better than NBA Live, but 2k was still way way waaaaay better.

" *clap* *clap* *clap* that does not happen with EA Sports games. The fact that they are willing to delay it to work on improving the gameplay speaks volumes to how they are trying to launch this right and distance themselves from the old franchise. I mean I'm not really going to buy it; like most people on this website I was only really interested in Jam and the Wii version seems like the better option. Either that or they failed certification and they are not actually working on gameplay; I would like to believe that it is for the gameplay though. "

What would be more interesting then just allowing for the DNA/roster updates for NBA Live 2010 would be if they had DLC that allowed you to start a franchise mode with the 2010-2011 season.

The Game Room avatar pose is catching on like fire!

"what the fuck was that"

First of all if you are going to do a video of something make sure you know how to play the game. This guy had no idea about the new controls. Yes the game needs some more work, but after playing a few games I love the new control system and hope they stick with it. People hated NHL when the new controls came out but they stuck with it and now the game is great.  Some people just don't want to put the time in to learn something new.

Live/elite has been bad for a decade compared to 2k. 
 
Had 0 chance of buying elite or jam before.  Now might buy jam 

Still not sure what system to get Jam on, dammit!

Yes. I was hoping this would happen!

10-15$ download insta buy. 
 
20$ download - buy when I get a points card on sale. 
 
50-60$ Disc?  Laugh my ass off and use gamefly or buy it used 6 months later for 10$.

This is hilarious. People were shitting all over that Elite demo.
They should just add all the Wii-edition features to the PS3/360 versions. EA already sent the Wii version to die without online, at least let consumers get a definitive version of the game.

you would think that would be something you could foresee...

Great video. Haven't laughed his hard in awhile. "This shit is crazy"