NBA Live 13 hitting XBLA, PSN for $20?

I'm not surprised at this, I'm just surprised the stripped-down game isn't $60.

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if the full game is 20 ill buy it though ive not liked ea basketball since live 98

All a part of EA's push (or hard-on) for going all-digital.

Yeah $20. Then you pay $10 to unlock the franchise mode, $10 for career mode, $15 to be able to play multiplayer online, $10 for online seasons, $10 for updated rosters throughout the year.....I can see where this is heading. Then after they have milked the supporters of this series they will release it on disc as it was intended with all those 'features' as standard on the disc for your retail price of $60. Oh, but then you will have to purchase downloadable content that allows you to play the game online, updated rosters........ blah

By all accounts it's piss poor... no great loss.

It isn't 'risky' to not put it on disk, just selfish and one-sided, so that doesn't surprise me. I'm just glad it's not getting a more glamorous price.

Hey, remember when 2K sold football for $20 and EA complained about it?

I'm not helping EA (E.vil A.ssociation) by giving 20 bucks for this piece of $hit so they can keep buying the NFL license to stop 2K from making a comeback in football.

not sure how vast the ps3 game library is on the playstation store but they should put the game on xbl's games on demand. that way they can make the game as big as they want without having to worry so much about the size of the game.

$20? Of course, if they were to release a $60 game, it instantly puts them against the 2K series, which they know they will not win. So why not lower the price, and have an actual excuse to release a half assed game? It's a win win for them lol

So they took the NFL 2K5 route

so this got canned, renamed and revived again. like they took a shit and buried it and and now they decide to dig it up. don't expect anything outta this

NBA Live 13 = 1/3 the price of NBA 2k13

NBA Live 13 = 1/3 the quality of NBA 2k13

It should have stayed dead.

EA is becoming the drug dealer of digital games. They'll sell them cheap, like this $20 pricetag, then when everyone is happy with digital downloads being so cheap, they'll start raising the price to $30, then $40 and so on. That's how they'll ease people into it by making it look like a great savings over boxed games. Don't be fooled.

NBA JAM on fire edition rules,looking forward to this also

Live stopped being good years ago. The last good live was '03 with Jason Kidd on the cover. Live is like a cartoon game now where you can hit threes from half court every possession. Doubt many people care.

do whatever you want to do.. whatever . but the fact is. you can never beat the greatest NBA 2K title :P

Feels like NFL2k5 all over again, only in reverse....

I really liked NBA Live 10. It just needed more game modes and a "Become a legend" mode and it would've been perfect. For $20, I doubt EA will pack much with the game. I'm still upset that they removed Franchise Mode from the new Madden.

I sincerely doubt this is going to be a digital only release, and to release for only $20. These games make too much money, and EA isn't in the business to be "swell guys", like so many gamers want them to be. 

I dont really like EA, but this is a good move. They need a share of the basketball sim market & thats the way to get it. Still, 2K got this. I think the long lay off has hurt them to the point where they cant make the comeback. Maybe thats part of the reason y they decided to go digital only. Save the dollars on the boxing, box art, copying of the disc & the distrubution of the game. I know they want to transition towards this model in the future but it makes sense to do it here. If it doesnt work then they will have saved money on all of the above. I hope im proven wrong & that they will make the comeback cuz competition is great for gaming.

It's a good way to get back into the field. Once they establish themselves, they will up the price on future versions along the same line as the 2K series. Just because the game is only $20 doesn't mean that EA is going to skimp out on some features. Everyone knows, including EA, that if they don't nail the game with this years version, then they might as well hang up the NBA franchise and so they are counting on bringing out a game that everyone wants to see and play.

The best part of all of this is we get a choice again and that is never a bad thing

I do believe it is still too early to make digital only releases as not everyone gets online with their consoles and I also think parents are more willing to buy games for their children at stores so they know what they are getting and dont need to use a credit card on some machine they still might think is just a toy

NBA Live was cool back in the XBOX days, but 2K has taken the NBA to new heights.  If they would just fix the passing and make it a bit easier to penetrate the lane (w/o losing the ball), 2K would be nearly perfect.  Live was too easy to dunk on almost every possession.

What I'm concerned about is that if it's on XBLA, then how robust will the game actually be in terms of franschise mode, multiplayer and player creation. If it's not going to be anything like NBA 2K11 or 12, then I'll pass. 

Can't even see myself getting this at $20. 2K is looking great this year so I'll pass.

thats crazy!!! nba live 2011 was cracking and if they continue on that success nba live 2013 would be cracking and need no digital release. everybody don't have online!!!!

I love how this brings up EA vs. 2K right away.  Sorry but as far as basketball goes they are both worthless.  Live is an all out scoring fest while the canned animations make 2K unplayable. I love 2K showing a full 20 min demo of their game online and there being 8 times players stepped out of bounds for turnovers because the annimations carried them where it wanted and not where the palyers wanted to go.  And that 4 times the ball could not be inbounded because the game didnt respond to button presses. But hey at least Steve Nash looks great.  LOL  And please keep yourselves calm wih the NFL 2K 5 being great. The presentation was top notch, and customization was sweet but gameplay was a joke.  Go play it now and run only in rotes for a full season.  My friend and I did and guess what the lowest rated QB in the game had a 92% completion rate for over 450 yards a game and 96 TD's ..Now that is good gameplay right ?  Lets face it sports are too hard to recreate a true sim game of so EA and 2K please give the reigns to someone new to try . And 2K your baseball game is horrible but keep making the Bigs cuz as an arcade game it was awesome.  At least Sony gets 1 thing right they make the best baseball game year in and year out . As for their older sports sim franchises .... well .... same as above.