ESPN's "The Gamer Blog" is reporting that the NBA Street franchise is being put on hiatus. This news came directly from EA Sports president Peter Moore.

"We'll still do traditional sports, but we're going to do them a different way," said Moore. "Street is a good example. We built a new Freestyle brand to do different things, and we also need to build our own intellectual properties. We rely on other people's IP for everything we do and we need to develop some new things. In the old days we had things like SSX that were our own intellectual property, but since then we've kind of moved away from that. We need a mixture of experiences that are not only for the hardcore, 'it's in the game' crowd. But if Wii Sports has taught us anything, it's that people will sit there and play big head tennis all day long. We need to be able to tap into that audience. We need to have something for that sports fan who might not necessarily be a sports gamer, but who wants that 15-minute experience without having to struggle on how to use the controller."

The blog also claimed that Midway has permanently shelved the NBA Ballers franchise and may be looking to opt out of its NBA licensing deal, although there's no official confirmation on that from Midway at this point. The news would be in line with the company's recent announcement to terminate "non-core" licenses.