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The story began roughly a year and a half before in mid-2009. In an interview with Kotaku posted on December 2, 2010, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello explained the business process of how and why the game was cancelled. Wilson also did not address what impact if any the public's reaction to the game's demo may have played in the decision. However, he did not address the specifics of why the game was initially delayed only a week before the scheduled release, as discs had already been printed by that point and a few copies had leaked out into the public. Given that the game was intended as a complete reboot of EA's NBA simulation basketball franchise, to release a substandard product could have had a greater negative impact on the future of EA Sports NBA titles than not releasing a game at all.Д¬oncerning the shifting of development duties for EA's next basketball simulation from EA Canada to EA Tiburon, Wilson noted that the move should not be seen as an indictment of the work EA Canada put into Elite 11. Wilson plainly stated that NBA Elite 11 'was a bad game.' Though the company had past success in retooling the gameplay of other sports franchises, that same level of quality simply wasn't there in NBA Elite. IGN spoke with Andrew Wilson, the development lead at EA Sports, about the cancellation. (However, Live 13 was subsequently cancelled due to quality concerns of its own.)

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At the time this announcement was made, it was unclear as to whether or not the next game would retain the NBA Elite branding it was later announced the the series would return to the NBA Live name with NBA Live 13. It was also announced at the time that EA Tiburon, the studio behind EA's Madden series, will be handling future development of the EA Sports NBA franchise according to then-EA COO, John Schappert. NBA Elite 11 was officially removed from the publisher's slate during an investor's call on November 2nd, 2010. Cancellation Image of a leaked copy of NBA Elite 11. The demo has since been removed from both online services. In it, the player encounters a series of glitches and gameplay complaints that reaches its peak when one of his players, Andrew Bynum, becomes stuck at center court, arms outstretched in a pose described as Jesus-like. The most damning of these discoveries were recorded in a Youtube video which went viral quickly across the internet. The demo quickly came under heavy fire for a notorious collection of major bugs. Prior to the delay announcement, EA had published a demo of NBA Elite to both PSN and the Xbox Live Marketplace.

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To make up for the delay, Electronic Arts also announced that the company would continue full online support for NBA Live 10 through the 2010-2011 NBA season. The reason for this delay was reportedly so that the development team had adequate time to clean up bugs and make other enhancements. Originally scheduled for release on Octofor the start of the 2010-2011 NBA season, EA announced on September 27, 2010, a week before the scheduled release, that NBA Elite would be delayed until an unspecified date. He lead the league in scoring in the 2009-2010 NBA season and led his team to the first round of the playoffs. Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder was slated to be the cover athlete of NBA Elite 11. EA also announced that EA Tiburon, the makers of Madden NFL, will develop future NBA titles. On November 2, 2010, Electronic Arts announced that NBA Elite 11 was officially cancelled. Originally scheduled for release in October of 2010, the game was delayed a week prior to the scheduled release date with no secondary release date given. The control scheme was also given a complete overhaul inspired by EA's NHL series, further separating its gameplay from NBA Live.

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Developed for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, the game was to feature improvements such as a new physics system which allows for completely free player movement, a skill-based shooting system which takes more into account than just the distance from the basket, and the elimination of canned shooting animations. NBA Elite 11 was EA Canada's planned revamp of the Electronic Arts NBA franchise formerly known as NBA Live.