Yesterday we found out that Take-Two took a pretty big hit this year, losing $137.9 million. Is 2K Sports, a T2 subsidiary, to blame? It's apparent that the poor sales of the company's baseball games is partly at fault for the publisher's financial struggling, and the latest word on the street is that NHL 2K11 is getting canned because of it.
Take-Two published its Q4 2009 fiscal results yesterday, and along with it, a release schedule of games. NHL 2K11 was not included on that list, a strong indication that it's been axed. Chris Littman at The Sporting News’ FirstCuts blog asked 2K Sports about the missing title. A 2K rep made this comment:
We are currently in the process of evaluating our sports portfolio and have not announced any new NHL titles at this time.
That just about puts the nail in the coffin for the NHL 2K franchise I'm afraid. It looks like it's going to be taking the route of the College Hoops series, which suffered a similar death.
[via Destructoid]
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