NBA 2K is a basketball franchise published by Take-Two Interactive. It is by far the best-selling basketball series and is becoming one of the best-selling franchises of all time, standing at almost 90 million as of December 2018[1]. The series originally started in 1999 under the Sega Sports label before Take-Two bought the developers in 2005.
Individual entries[]
| Title | Year | Sales
(Millions) |
Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| NBA 2K | 1999 | ||
| NBA 2K1 | 2000 | ||
| NBA 2K2 | 2001/2002 | ||
| NBA 2K3 | 2002 | ||
| ESPN NBA Basketball | 2003 | 35 | |
| ESPN NBA 2K5 | 2004 | 1.6 | [2] |
| NBA 2K6 | 2005 | ||
| NBA 2K7 | 2006 | ||
| NBA 2K8 | 2007 | ||
| NBA 2K9 | 2008 | 2 | [3] |
| NBA 2K10 | 2009 | 2 | [4] |
| NBA 2K11 | 2010 | 5.5 | [5] |
| NBA 2K12 | 2011 | 4 | [6] |
| NBA 2K13 | 2012 | 4 | [7] |
| NBA 2K14 | 2013 | 7 | [8] |
| NBA 2K15 | 2014 | 7 | [9] |
| NBA 2K16 | 2015 | 4 | [10] |
| NBA 2K17 | 2016 | 8.5 | [11] |
| NBA 2K18 | 2017 | 10 | [12] |
| NBA 2K19 | 2018 | 12 | [13] |
| NBA 2K20 | 2019 | 14 | [14] |
| NBA 2K21 | 2020 | 8 | [15] |
References[]
- ↑ https://ir.take2games.com/news-releases/news-release-details/take-two-interactive-software-inc-reports-strong-results-10?ID=2386288&c=86428&p=irol-newsArticle
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071028115051/http://www.next-gen.biz/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3537&Itemid=2&pop=1&page=1
- ↑ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/nba-2k9-reaches-2-million-sales-worldwide
- ↑ https://www.destructoid.com/nba-2k10-sells-2-million-brings-back-mike-wang-for-2k11-162361.phtml
- ↑ https://www.gamespot.com/articles/take-two-sales-sink-12-in-june-quarter/1100-6327818/
- ↑ https://www.gamespot.com/articles/red-dead-redemption-sells-13m-nba-2k12-hits-4m/1100-6349683/
- ↑ https://www.gamespot.com/articles/bioshock-infinite-ships-4-million-copies/1100-6412248/
- ↑ https://www.gamespot.com/articles/with-nba-2k14s-huge-success-why-doesnt-2k-make-mor/1100-6421599/
- ↑ https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-08-21-grand-theft-auto-series-has-shipped-over-220m-copies
- ↑ https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/10/02/nba-2k16-sales-figures-revealed
- ↑ https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/02/with-8-5-million-sales-nba-2k17-is-more-dominant-than-the-warriors/
- ↑ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180802005110/en/NBA-2K18-Hits-Franchise-Sales-Record
- ↑ https://twitter.com/mattbertz/status/1158483471288827904
- ↑ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-08-03-take-two-ceo-its-a-matter-of-time-before-the-business-is-entirely-digital
- ↑ https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/08/nba-2k21-pushes-take-two-to-860-9-in-q4-2020-revenue-down-7-5/