2K ships 2 million copies of PGA Tour 2K21 as on-line game golf heats up
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It’s a ways excessive tide for on-line game golf. Writer 2K Video games has shipped 2 million copies of PGA Tour 2K21 since its August debut. Steal-Two Interactive, 2K’s mother or father firm, known as the game “extremely winning,” which is one among the causes 2K obtained PGA Tour developer HB Studios.
These scorching sales for 2K21 come as Digital Arts and Nintendo notion to begin golf games within the subsequent 12 months. Nintendo is launching Mario Golf: Wide Bustle on June 25. That game brings the franchise to Swap for the first time. EA, within the meantime, is building a narrate competitor to PGA Tour 2K21 with its EA Sports activities PGA Tour. In a tweet on Can also 17, EA confirmed that it’s releasing PGA Tour in 2022.
When it launches, EA’s PGA Tour will gain the distinctive rights to the four PGA majors. This comprises the PGA Championship, The Masters Match, the U.S. Starting up Championship, and The Starting up Championship.
For its section, HB Studios and 2K Video games notion to counter EA by teaming with Tiger Woods.
“We’re very pondering referring to the expansion doable for the PGA Tour 2K sequence, particularly as 2K has agreed to an distinctive, long-term agreement with golf epic and icon, Tiger Woods, to operate its executive director and manual,” reads Steal-Two’s financial hiss. “We imagine this can enhance the sequence’ ongoing innovation and authenticity.”
2K confirmed over email at this time time that this will tranquil be making a PGA Tour 2K games.
“2K tranquil has the PGA Tour license and the PGA Tour 2K franchise will continue in due course, We’re not prepared to make an announcement referring to the subsequent game upright yet,” a spokesperson acknowledged.
Obviously, neither EA or 2K’s game gain King Bob-Omb.
Above: A steady king.
And the truth is, isn’t that better than Tiger Woods?
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