{"id":1804,"date":"2025-09-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:44:23","slug":"review-nba-2k26-switch-2-brilliant-b-ball-has-a-disappointing-debut-on-switch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/review-nba-2k26-switch-2-brilliant-b-ball-has-a-disappointing-debut-on-switch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: NBA 2K26 (Switch 2) &#8211; Brilliant B-Ball Has A Disappointing Debut On Switch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hoops!&#8230;they did it again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As much as I can understand the derision from some quarters regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/nba-2k26\">NBA 2K26<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/ea-sports-fc-26\">FC 26<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/ea-sports-madden-nfl-26\">Madden<\/a> \u2014 any of these big sports&#8217; games in their yearly, money-grubbing modern forms \u2014 I have, unfortunately, got a few of them to thank for several things that I enjoy in life these days. One of which is the old basketballs.<\/p>\n<p>For most of my life, Basketball was a game where people ran up and down a court, scoring and then letting the other team score. There was no discernible defence, no strategy, nothing other than to be incredibly athletic and awesome and beautiful &#8211; and good at going airborne. Oh, and if you had a gigantic wobbly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/nba_jam\">NBA Jam<\/a> head and a pair of fireproof sneakers, well, all the better.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch-2\/nba-2k26\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoops!&#8230;they did it again. As much as I can understand the derision from some quarters regarding NBA 2K26, FC 26, Madden \u2014 any of these big sports&#8217; games in their yearly, money-grubbing modern forms \u2014 I have, unfortunately, got a few of them to thank for several things that I enjoy in life these days. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}