TITLE
How A Big Video Game Was Killed
AUTHOR
Stephen Totilo
PUBLICATION
Kotaku
YEAR
2010
ARTICLE TYPE
Interview
FROM THE ARTICLE
The last-minute cancellation of EA Sports’ NBA Elite 11 this fall isn’t supposed to happen to any video game. How? Why? Kotaku learned the unusual story this week from EA boss John Riccitiello.“I’m not sure I’m going to give you a good explanation,” Riccitiello told me when I brought up the topic of Elite during an interview in Manhattan this week, “So I’ll just give you the chronology and let you interpret what you want.”
I’m going to pass Riccitiello’s approach on to you, the reader and present virtually all of what he said about Elite, a frank blow-by-blow with some added explanation from me. Then you may interpret it as you’d like.
COMPANIES MENTIONED
Electronic Arts
GAMES MENTIONED
NBA Elite 11
PEOPLE MENTIONED
John Riccitiello
TOPICS MENTIONED
Canceled Games
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