2K Sports has confirmed that the Million Dollar Perfect Game challenge is returning with MLB 2K11. The contest has been opened to children aged 13 and up, and will start on opening day of the regular season and not the first day the game releases.
“I don’t know if we’re smart or just insane,” Jason Argent, the vice president of marketing for 2K Sports. “The million-dollar bounty’s back. I just walked out of a meeting with our chief financial officer; budgeting for this sort of thing is a bit of a challenge when you can’t say exactly when you’re going to pay it.”
Tying into this is the cover athlete Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies. The National League Cy Young winner threw a perfect game on May 29 and no hit the Reds during the National League Division Series.
“When we finished the deal to put him on the cover and were talking with him about the game, the first thing he said was, Man, you’ve got to change that perfect game contest,'” Argent said. “He said, My son is going crazy trying to throw a perfect game and win a million dollars, and I didn’t have the heart to tell him he was ineligible because he was too young last year.'”
Source: Kotaku
