NBA 2K22 COVER PROFESSIONAL

The standard and cross-gen digital version will feature NBA All-Star Luka Dončić. 'Everyone is looking at it that it's impacting little girls, but it's also impacting little boys and young men and young women and men and women,' Parker said about the impact of her NBA 2K22 cover.NBA 2K22 will be getting three variations of cover athletes, paying homage to current greats in the NBA and WNBA as well as historical legends. And the game wouldn't only attract women. With NBA 2K gamers regularly spending hundreds of dollars on Virtual Currency (VC) in order to get upgrades for their created player, a WNBA game is a surefire cash machine waiting to print money. Women are also 79% more likely to make in-app purchases in a mobile game compared to men. There is no better time than now for a WNBA game.įemale gamers account for more than 41% of all gamers in the United States and in 2014, twice as many adult women played video games as young boys. Women have been playing organized basketball since 1892, and not one video game company thought it wouldn't be as far-fetched to give them their own video game as it would be to have NBA players shoot around a flaming basketball. There have been basketball video games with rappers playing basketball ( RapJam Volume 1), men twirling in the air like Simone Biles before dunking ( NBA Jam), cartoonishly exaggerated street ball ( NBA Streets), and whatever the hell Barkley Shut Up And Jam was supposed to be. The non-existence of a women's basketball game becomes more embarrassing for the video game industry after you realize what ludicrous basketball games were already made. NBA 2K21 rectified a few of NBA Live's issues and as a result, showed us a bit of what a WNBA video game could be. NBA Live 19 may have broken gender barriers by allowing women and men players to play on the same team and against each other in its The One mode, but failed to include a career mode for WNBA players, which is standard for every basketball game over the last few decades. Watching a basketball game without commentators giving historical context, player stats, or stale jokes is the same as watching a silent film where people just walk around. NBA Live 18 may have been the first game to feature WNBA players, but had commentators who never mention any of the WNBA players on the court by name.

NBA 2K22 COVER PROFESSIONAL

Not only has the WNBA never had its own video game, the first time female professional basketball players were ever included in a video game was in 2017 for NBA Live 18, 21 years after the WNBA was formed. Through social media, through video games, it's adding and benefiting the WNBA.'

'Now more than ever, fans want to follow the athlete. 'I think our game is different than the NBA now it's embracing that fact,' Parker told ESPN. That said, it has long been time for the WNBA to escape the NBA's shadow and shine in its own video game. There is no word on if that mode will return in NBA 2K22, but Parker being placed on the cover is a good indication we'll be able to drain threes with the New York Liberty's Sabrina Ionescu this fall. Parker's cover announcement comes less than a year after NBA 2K21 became the first video game in history to offer a single-player career mode for the WNBA, allowing players to play an entire WNBA season, run the league, and take a player they created through the arduous journey of making and thriving in the association. And this should be the last move to finally convince video game makers that it's been time to make a WNBA video game. She'll appear on the edition of NBA 2K22 that's sold atGamestop when the game is released on September 10. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the WNBA, two-time WNBA MVP and Chicago Sky star Candace Parker will become the first woman to grace the cover of the NBA 2K video game series.

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