In a tweet to promote its upcoming game NBA 2K22, the NBA 2K Twitter account awarded the 24K gold PlayStation 5 that is valued at more than $10000. In a promo tweet for its latest game NBA MT Coins, the NBA 2K Twitter account gave its players a gold 24K PS5 worth more than $10K.
The tweet went out just as the latest installment in Basketball's video games franchise NBA 2K22, was released. NBA 2K was originally developed by Sega Sports in 1999 with annually scheduled installments up to 2004. After the sale of the company and the formation of 2K Sports, annual releases continued under its new publisher. The 22nd installment of the popular basketball video game has Luka Don?i? of the Dallas Mavericks on its cover.
The PS5 The current generation of PlayStation remains in high demand since its release last year. Even though the PS5 came out in November 2020 however, it is hard to come by thanks to a cut in production of parts as well as scalpers who offer the devices with higher prices.
One of the most notable examples of this is a 16 year old who earned $1.7 million with PS5s and Pokemon cards. A sweepstakes to win an PS5 is noteworthy, however NBA 2K has made it more notable by giving away a golden edition of the sought-after console.
In order to win the golden PS5 contestants only needed sign up to their Twitter accounts, and then reply to NBA 2k's tweet using #2KDay and #Sweepstakes 2K22 MT Buy. The sweepstakes period however was short. Contestants had only 8AM PST and 12:30PM PST to sign up.