EA Sports dominated the basketball video gaming world during the initial parts of the new millennium while 2K Sports was still finding its stride. It all changed in 2010 when both developed the 2011 version of their respective titles.

2K Sports went retro with "2k11" and featured arguably the best basketball player ever on its cover as well as in the game itself. Who could ever forget trying to complete the "Jordan Challenge"?

"NBA 2K11" garnered 89 percent score on Metacritic and tallied a 9.5/10 rating from IGN. It went on to sell 5.5 million copies worldwide and 2K Sports had nowhere to go but up front that point onwards.

During the same time, EA Sports tried to go a different route with the newly christened "NBA Elite 11." It was anything but successful and things started to plummet for EA from there. The "Elite" brand was supposed to succeed the "NBA Live" series for years to come, but it was the only "Elite" title EA ever produced.

EA eventually cancelled the game because "ultimately it was just going to be a bad game," EA Sports boss Alan Wilson previously admitted to IGN.

"The goal of reinventing how people play basketball games and giving the gamer infinitely more control over the outcomes that appear on the screen in front of them was something that just needed to take longer than we had."

Now, it has been five years since the basketball video gaming gods tipped the rivalry in 2k Sports' favor. It has been EA Sports who has been scrambling to pick itself up from the strife it has inflicted upon itself.

Only gamers can decide though whether EA Sports will reclaim its glory or will 2KSports continue its hot streak starting this Sept. 29 when both "NBA Live 16" and "NBA 2K16" hit the market.

While 2kSports is merely counting the days until its next-gen basketball title releases, EA Sports is still ironing out technical issues with "NBA Live 16".

The Redwood-based gaming studio recently took to social media to apologize for the delay of their next-gen flagship feature, the face-scanning mobile app "Game Face HD." The app lets gamers take a self-capture of themselves via their mobile devices. The image will then be used to generate gamers' facial features to their customized characters in the game's "Rising Star" mode.

Nonetheless, EA Sports reiterates that the delay of the game's companion app will not affect the scheduled release of the "NBA Live 16" demo this Sept. 15.

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