The predecessor of the NBA Live series was the NBA Playoffs series, which featured Lakers vs. As of 2021, there has not been any official announcements about a new game being developed in the series. Even with WNBA teams being added into NBA Live 18 for the first time in the series, sales continued to decline, with NBA Live 19 being the final confirmed release, and eventually leading to the cancellation of NBA Live 20 and 21. The series, which has had releases annually from 1994 to 2009, 2013 to 2015, and 2017–2018, is the successor to EA's previous NBA Playoffs and NBA Showdown series.īeginning in the late 2010’s, NBA Live sales had dropped off compared to their competitors, NBA 2K. NBA Live is a series of basketball video games published by EA Sports.