Ben Bishop works on all of
2K Sports premier major league titles, and is responsible for the
NHL franchise. Right now,
2K has an RV touring the country showing off early builds of
NHL 2K11, and recently
spoke with ESPN about their focus on the
Wii for 2011. While I've met Mr. Bishop just once, and spoken to him a couple of times in interviews,
I usually resepect what he has to say. But there's some pretty heavy spin when he talks about the
Wii version of last years title being the best seller.Of course it was, it was the only platform on which they had no hockey competition. And with
EA coming to the
Wii this year with a new title,
2K needs a strong offense to keep the one platform where they've shown leadership. The
Wii is an ideal platform for a good NHL game; a proper motion control scheme would be the ultimate selling point, even with the sub-standard graphics in comparison to the other two platforms.
Mr. Bishop gets into some specifics about features, but even on the
Wii he's playing catch up to what
EA offers. He admits to not having an answer to the success that
NHL2010 had and even hints that the year off on the
PS3 and
360 are to look at making significant changes to the franchise.
Hopefully the motion controls will be so good, and it will springboard sales enough to let
2K get back in the game so to speak on the other 2 platforms.
