There’s a major theme to sports games being released in 2026 as developers contest with the realization that their player base is wildly fractured. There are the deeply hardcore, year-in-year-out players who might invest 90% of their gaming time into one sports game — and casual players who drop in when the season begins to be hyped for their favorite sport, picking it up once more as we approach the playoffs.
This issue has been tackled in a variety of ways, with the majority skewing more towards catering to its broader group of more casual players, leaving the competitive side largely untouched. This isn’t the case for NBA 2K26, which
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