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NBA 2K Franchise

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Average Sentiment

0.91

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Average Monthly Article Count

3.66

First Article Date: April 2000

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Highest Monthly Average Sentiment

1.00

Month: June 2023

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Lowest Monthly Average Sentiment

0.68

Month: October 2020

Total Articles Count

1,039

Most Active Authors

  • Owen Good - Kotaku (136 articles)
  • Hodey Johns - Game Rant (113 articles)
  • Eddie Makuch - Gamespot (98 articles)

Article Source Distribution

Game Rant: 38.59%

Gamespot: 36.19%

Kotaku: 23.29%

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Article Count Frequency Trend

Increasing

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Historical Trends of NBA 2K Franchise

NBA 2K Franchise

NBA 2K Franchise

Genre: Sports (Basketball)

Mode: Single-player, Online Multiplayer

Release Date: First - November 11, 1999; Recent - September 8, 2023

Description:The NBA 2K franchise offers an authentic NBA simulation with various modes like career, team management, and multiplayer. Renowned for high-quality graphics and accurate player stats, it provides a comprehensive basketball experience, mirroring real-world NBA gameplay. The series is celebrated for its immersive gameplay, incorporating advanced mechanics and realistic game dynamics to engage basketball enthusiasts.

Historical Trends Summary

The NBA 2K Franchise is the most well known basketball simulation game, well known both for its annual releases and constant innovation of new game play modes and stunning visuals of the players and courts. The series was originally published by Sega, but is currently published by 2K.

A new title for the series is released annually in the month of September since 2016, and was previously released in the month of October or November. Based on article counts, the game had plateaued in popularity from 2010 until 2020, when the COVID-19 outbreak pushed videogames into the mainstream as people forced to stay at home looked for new ways to pass the time.

Additional Observations

As it is an annual release with usually nominal changes, the NBA 2K franchise is largely cyclicle, with quite periods in the months between each release. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, NBA 2K titles have had increasingly more coverage, hitting a high of 25 articles in September 2020, and another high just two years later of 75 articles in September 2022 accounting for nearly 7.5% of all articles historically. This highest peak is most likely due to the reintroduction of the "Jordan Challenges" from NBA 2K11 and its release on Apple Arcade.

NBA 2K enjoys a high sentiment of 0.91, and has largely maintained that through its history. Historically, its sentiment only began to drop during periods of low article frequency, when it is prone to extreme movements. The lowest score it reached with a minimum 5 articles in a month was October of 2020, as multiple authors complained about unskipable ads being introduced to the game and some players being the victim of an in-game scam.

Sentiment in the game is on the rise as more innovative titles and game modes are released, such as the inclusion of 'ProPLAY', which will incorporate footage into the gameplay to make the games movement feel seamless. In fact, in June of 2023 the NBA 2K Franchise reached a perfect score of 1.0 again, after reaching it on multiple occassions throughout its history. Future titles are expected to gain in popularity, as Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the younger generation and for both boys and girls.

Count of Articles by Authors

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Source Rankings

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IGN
0.93
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Game Rant
0.93
3
Gamespot
0.93
4
Kotaku
0.86
5
PCGamer
0.81
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Average sentiment historically

Highest Average Sentiment Authors

  • 1 Jerrad Wyche (Source: Game Rant, 15 articles)
    1.00
  • 2 William Parks (Source: Game Rant, 15 articles)
    1.00
  • 3 Jonathan Ammerman (Source: Game Rant, 16 articles)
    1.00

Lowest Average Sentiment Authors

  • 1 Jasmine Henry (Source: Game Rant, 12 articles)
    0.66
  • 2 Luke Plunkett (Source: Kotaku, 49 articles)
    0.75
  • 3 Owen Good (Source: Kotaku, 136 articles)
    0.90
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Must have 10+ articles of the game

% of Total Articles by Source

Authors & Source Summary

Coverage of the NBA 2K Franchise is almost entirely dominated by three gaming news outlets, Game Rant with 38.6% of the articles, Gamespot with 36.2% of the articles, and Kotaku with 23.3% of the total articles for a combined 98.1% or 1,019 articles.

All titles hold a hold a high postive sentiment of the Madden Franchise, althought the gaming news outlet PCGamer is considerably below the average. None of the news outlets reached a perfect score, but three sit above the average at 0.93 for all of them. Multiple journalists for the NBA 2K franchise managed to report perfect scores while reporting on the game.

Additional Observations

Owen Good (136 articles) from Kotaku is by far the most prolific journalist covering the Madden Franchise, accounting for just over 13% of all articles published on the title. The next two largest journalists are Hodey Johns (113 articles) from Game Rant and Eddie Makuch (98 articles) from Gamespot. Owen Good is well known for his coverage of sports and motorsports video games, although he is no longer with Kotaku and has joined the outlet Polygon as of 2014. His highest coverage game title is the Madden, which is reports more than double the amount of articles than the NBA 2K franchise.

The gaming news outlets IGN, Gamerant. and Gamespot all report score of 0.93, which is 0.02 points above the average. The main news source bringing down the NBA 2K Franchise's historical sentiment is Kotaku at a sentiment score of 0.86, with PCGamer reporting a lower score of 0.81 but comprises less than 1% of all articles.

Although Game Rant accounts for 38.6% of the total articles, it makes up 92 or 47.2% of all journalists covering the game. Consequently, it comprises all three of the highest sentiment journalists, all of which report a perfect score, Jerrad Wyche (15 articles), William Parks (15 articles) and Jonathan Ammerman (16 articles). Jerrad Wyche is also known for being the highest sentiment journalist for the Madden Franchise as well. No author with more than 10 articles reported a negative score, with the lowest sentiment score of 0.66 being Jasmine Henry (12 articles) from Game Rant.