NBA 2K25 is delisted from the Xbox digital store on October 30, 2026.

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Six frontier AI models put this at 95% by 17 Nov 2026. Full reasoning from every model.

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95% — the median of 6 frontier models, resolving by 2026-11-17.

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Gemini (Google): 97% — 2K Sports operates on a strict annual licensing lifecycle and systematically delists old titles ahead of December server shutdowns. Annual NBA 2K titles reliably leave digital stores around late October of their second year due to player likeness licensing expirations. The official storefront schedule is already published, leaving only rare administrative mistakes or delays to prevent delisting by mid-November. A formal extension of 2K25's digital availability would require renegotiating expensive NBA licenses, which 2K never does for legacy editions.

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Claude (Anthropic): 88% — This turns on whether 2K/Microsoft stick to their already-announced October 30 removal date. Publishers rarely delay pre-announced digital delistings tied to annual sports titles with yearly refresh cycles. The context states this is a settled scheduled date, not a tentative plan, reducing uncertainty further. Main risk is a short administrative delay or technical slip pushing removal a few days past the date, which would still fail literal resolution.

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GPT (OpenAI): 93% — This chiefly depends on 2K not reversing a publicly scheduled delisting less than two weeks before it occurs. 2K and Xbox need only execute a routine catalog removal on October 30; no regulator, vote, or technical launch is required. Annual sports titles commonly lose digital availability around two years after release, often preceding server closures. I would lower this sharply only if 2K or Xbox posts an explicit extension or the product remains purchasable after October 30.

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Grok (xAI): 92% — Whether 2K and Xbox execute the already-posted Oct 30 delisting without slip or reversal. 2K routinely delists prior NBA 2K titles ~24 months after launch ahead of year-end server shutdowns; Xbox storefront changes almost always hit the announced calendar… A delay would need a public 2K or Microsoft notice in the next 12 days; historical slip rate for such Xbox delistings is under 10 percent. The one thing that would move the number is an official postponement tweet or store-page update before 30 Oct.

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DeepSeek (DeepSeek): 96% — The delisting is already scheduled and announced, so this is a calendar fact, not a forecast. Take-Two's annual sports titles follow a fixed ~2-year licensing cycle, and 2K25's servers are slated to close December 31, 2026. Delisting typically precedes server shutdown by weeks; 2K24 was pulled from Xbox around its own end-of-cycle date with no reversal precedent. The only thing that flips this is a last-minute licensing extension, which Take-Two has essentially never done for a two-year-old 2K title.

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Qwen (Alibaba): 96% — Routine annual delisting by 2K with a confirmed date; almost no mechanism exists to prevent it. 2K has delisted every prior NBA 2K title on schedule (2K23 in Oct 2024, 2K24 in Oct 2025), establishing a near-perfect base rate. Delisting requires no regulatory approval or third-party coordination—just a single flag flip by 2K/Microsoft on a set date. Only a last-minute business reversal by 2K (e.g., extended licensing deal) would change this, and no such signal exists.

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