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MLB: The The Show about to go multi platform in 2021, no longer a PlayStation Exclusive
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I hope you are right because I don't want to have consoles beside Nintendo.
Neat, I haven't played a good MLB game since Sony acquired the license. Lets go Xbox and/or PC.
Fake Edit: I guess those tweets confirm Xbox. Yeeeeeah Booyeee. Now it needs to have cross platform MP.
Fake Edit: I guess those tweets confirm Xbox. Yeeeeeah Booyeee. Now it needs to have cross platform MP.
Neat. I love the Show and glad more people get to play it. I just hope nothing changes to make it worse (i.e. shifting to another team).
Breh, how do you consistently have all the correct opinions about games in every thread that I see you in?
I still think World Series Baseball '98 is the G.O.A.T. baseball sim, but The Show is the only baseball series that I enjoy as much as I did WSB.
Everyone can make a MLB game (with MLB authorization of course), Sony was just the only one who put resources to make a game (especially after 2K stopped)
Apparently the other game is not very good (RBI), I think for MLB it is smarter to have just one good game available anywhere else and they probably paid Sony to release MLB The Show on other platforms
EA and 2K used to make baseball games. They stopped for a reason. The games don't sell enough for them to justify making them, especially not competing against Sony.
This is great news, it's stupid how Xbox players have had to go without a quality baseball sim all these years.
Huh. This was like the one exclusive IP that Sony could consistently count on. It's hard not to see this as a pretty big blow.
Yeah I mean you can basically play Sony 1st party games via streaming. By the end of this gen I'd be shocked if PlayStation didn't have PC ports.
Oh my god, WSB 98 is STILL my favorite baseball game ever. The perfect mix of arcade and sim. Me and my brother-in-law, who was an MLB pitcher, would play it for HOOOOOURS.
WSB 2k1 was so insanely disappointing as a follow up. Although 2k2 was a huge improvement. They never quite hit the high that was 98 tho.
i say sure. turnabouts fairplay, prolly need some sort of log in and prolly cross play now too.
If the game has crossplay how else are they going to do it? Sony would be dumb to not make people sign up for PSN accounts.
Somehow Sony will say "gamers prefer playing this on the most secure network possible" when they announce that there won't be crossplay. lol
I assume the MLB played a role, because there's just no way Sony would let a First party IP go to other platforms that easily.
MLB has been working for the past few years to market to a younger and more diverse fan base, and it has been working. I could see this as more of that marketing push. It says Sony extended their exclusive agreement with MLB, and I am sure that getting the game on more platforms was something the MLB wanted to negotiate. If you think about it, this is a win win for both Sony and MLB. The game can be played by more console owners, Sony can market to a larger customer base, while also getting practice developing on other consoles or developing relationships with devs that can do that porting for them (which could open the potention for future cross platform games for other Sony owned developers).
You have to understand that the previous exclusivity deal that Sony signed with MLB was signed back in 2014, when MLB parted ways with 2k Sports and MLB2k. Five years ago, console publishers developing a game for other consoles/platforms wasn't such a common thing as it is today. Sony was probably more open to it now, and I am sure there were some financial incentives to do so.
Do you think MLB was going to simply yank the license away from Sony and San Diego Studio if they didn't publish on multiple platforms? They have been making a fantastic baseball game for a long time now, that is what MLB wants for now and the future. Sony may have come into this deal with more leverage than you think.
Gonna be awkward
Sony, "umm Microsoft/Nintendo, can we um, like you know, get a dev kit from you because ummm...just trying to release a game"
Microsoft/Nintendo, "what you say? Can you repeat? I don't think I get you"
Sony, "We want umm, a dev kit from you because we want to release a game on your platform"
Microsoft/Nintendo, "Can you like, speak louder? Just trying to make sure we ain't imagining things"
Sony, "I SAY GIVE US A DEV KIT BECAUSE WE WANT TO RELEASE A GAME ON NINTENDO SWITCH AND XBOX DON'T MAKE ME REPEAT IT AGAIN"
Sony, "umm Microsoft/Nintendo, can we um, like you know, get a dev kit from you because ummm...just trying to release a game"
Microsoft/Nintendo, "what you say? Can you repeat? I don't think I get you"
Sony, "We want umm, a dev kit from you because we want to release a game on your platform"
Microsoft/Nintendo, "Can you like, speak louder? Just trying to make sure we ain't imagining things"
Sony, "I SAY GIVE US A DEV KIT BECAUSE WE WANT TO RELEASE A GAME ON NINTENDO SWITCH AND XBOX DON'T MAKE ME REPEAT IT AGAIN"
They're gonna make bank on those sales of the Xbox version, this is pretty much a win for everyone.
But didn't Microsoft have the opportunity to make a first party baseball game if I'm correct.
Is Sony still against crossplay? I have no idea.
I feel like MW has to be one of the rare exceptions, and that's because Activision has "fuck you" money and power.