This is the 24th installment in the franchise from 2K Sports and Visual Concepts, and it was released on September 9th, 2022 for PS5, Xbox Series S/X, Windows PC, Nintendo Switch, and most prior generation systems.
Why do people continue to spend their time and money on the 2K series everytime a new game is released? Simply put, they enjoy the game because it allows them to realize their dream of playing professional basketball.
With all the new upgrades, Park, the most well-liked game mode in 2K23, has fans returning to grind for buckets and badges.
NBA 2K23 is the result of years of iteration and ambition, and the enthusiastic support of sports figures like Mike Fratello, Phil Jackson, and Patrick Ewing is also the result of years of back-breaking labor that turned what began as a first-party sports game for the Dreamcast into a widely recognized pop culture phenomenon.
Development at Visual Concepts, the 2K Sports studio behind NBA 2K23, typically lasts for a week or two before the team takes an entire workday to play the most recent build of the game and assess what they've created thus far.
Erick Boenisch, the executive producer, also had to take some time to think. even thinking back.
There is literally nothing else in sports video games like MyNBA Eras, either before or since.
Boenisch added that creating this experience was as personally rewarding for him and the 475 developers working on NBA 2K as it is for the millions of players who have already gotten a sneak peek at the mode and fallen down a time-travelling rabbit hole for themselves.
A fan can begin a franchise playthrough in MyNBA Eras with any NBA team that was in existence in one of four years: 1983, 1991, 2002, or 2022, and proceed from there. It is a frenzy of nostalgia for males my age or Boenisch's.
On the first day of the 1983 season, seeing David Thompson's name in the starting lineup for the Golden State Warriors was an emotional moment that belonged in a sports video game.
It didn't come together until 2022, according to Boenisch, because Visual Concepts had an even shorter production cycle last year for NBA 2K22 due to the rigors of creating two distinct versions of NBA 2K21 — for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and then for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
Since the PS5/Series X version debuted in November 2020, 2K22 had the quickest development cycle in NBA 2K history. And that was following a new console generation and the pandemic, as you may know. You can only expect so much from people.
MyNBA Eras is more than just an elegant name for certain renamed rosters. Professional basketball's rules have changed a lot over the past 40 years, possibly more so than American football's.
Now, actions like zone defenses, hand-checking, and much rougher contact than what is seen today are both allowed and prohibited.
Boenisch and MyNBA Eras' gameplay director, Mike Wang, were aware that the game's time-travel promise would be undermined if it only provided retro clothing and a CRT screen filter.
The more committed NBA 2K gamers take online recreational play quite seriously.
Fans of the annual basketball simulation play online 5v5 games with their own MyPlayers in hopes of winning.
Slack players or underachievers won't be welcomed because the competition can become fierce and the stakes raised, just like in any online game.
However, NBA 2K23 players are hoping the developers can fix the problem because there is no way to remove underachievers from games.
