10 PlayStation Trophies That Are Literally Impossible To Achieve

An entry in EA's NBA Live series of basketball games, the case of NBA Elite 11's unobtainable Platinum trophy is a completely bizarre one.

The story starts with the game's complicated development. EA Canada only had around 18 months to make and release it, which isn't a lot of time for a major AAA product. But, confident that they could deliver, the team pressed ahead. As the game was nearing completion, a demo was released for public consumption, and it was here that Elite 11's prospects took a sharp turn for the worse.

The demo was plagued with bugs and animation issues, including the hilarious "Jesus Bynum" glitch, which saw one of the players stood in the middle of the court in a t-pose. Despite this bad press, EA Canada remained adamant that they could fix the game's problems, but, after an internal review, EA chose to flat-out cancel the game, unwilling to ship a product that they weren't happy with.

But strangely, this cancellation came when the game was pretty much finished, and somehow, a few copies leaked out into the wild and into gamers' hands. As a result, a tiny, tiny amount of players have actually played the game and earned some of the trophies, and these "released" copies of the game quickly became rare collector's items, and were even spotted on eBay for extortionate prices.

So, unless you're lucky enough to somehow stumble across one of those copies, the platinum is fully unobtainable. Even if you did get your hands on the game, it has online trophies which will not be possible to unlock at this late stage.