NBA 2K11 is 2K Sports' best-selling game ever

No mention of the impact of who was on the cover?

Good, cause it was a great game... so great that EA looked at it and said... ON TO THE NEXT ONE...

Michael Jordan + No Competition = $$$

The game is pretty awesome, especially the Jordan challenges but the online(2k servers) is pretty much trash.

1. Put Jordan on the cover
2. ???
3. PROFIT!!!

It's a fun game, very challenging.......ESPECIALLY the challenges

@kgoo867

It has been the better of the two for years...so I am not surprised at all...Bravo 2k Bravo.

EA is mad lol

Well being an online fiend this game was a waste of creativity! They had most of all the pieces to make a full yr of nonstop bballing until i realized why i didnt put much time into 2k10. They servers suck B@llz!!! Who invites pl over their house to play offline now a days?That is the main reason i play live 10 from time to time b/c I can game online

Well it is the best basketball game ever made. It was a big jump from last years. Online is better. Not perfect I still have a hard time getting matches but no where near last years. I love the game.

Hope 2k get their NHL act together again. From the comments, it's rather said to see that their servers are apparently just as bad as they were in NHL 2k8.

They're still assholes for not patching the glitched trophies.

I guess I'm the only one who gets annoyed like crazy while playing 2K

Even if elite came out and was a better game i wouldnof still got 2k11 because of jordan!!

it's funny how EA had to pull off a desperate move and buy the NFL license to be the lone NFL game developer.... but 2K games became the lone NBA game developer (not counting SCEA's) by just creating the better game.

How do they improve for 2k12?

Gimmick successful.

@kgoo867

yea my little brother was a faithful NBA Live fan but Elite's cancellation forced him to 2K for his NBA fix. he won't shut up about it. he loves how much more stuff you can do on 2K that you can't do on Live/Elite. it just seems like a much deeper, more polished experience. sure Elite's cancellation may have helped but it seems 2K was the better game anyway.

("Sold in," of course, refers to shipments to retailers, rather than actual purchases by consumers.)

I really wish people would just understand that this is how the world works.
Unless the publisher/distributor of a product has agreements with every reseller of their product to report to them the sales of their product (No, for 95% of the global market), "sold" ALWAYS means "shipped to retail". They simply have no other metric to go by.

I'm not trying to imply that JC is a bastard for saying it in his article or anything (I actually applaud him for being precise and not leaving it vague enough for the masses to misinterpret), but rather I think it's sad that the distinction needs to continue to be made at all.

People! Understand. To all these publishers and console manufacturers... SHIPPED = SOLD. They got their money. It's a done deal.