MLB The Show 21 Arrives on April 20 with Cross-Platform Play & Cross Progression - Some Details Revealed

[OriolesFanRD]

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We want this for Steam and PC!

[XtremeDunkz]

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Just a thought here but X Box might be the downfall of MLB The Show in the not to far future?



What are the odds MLB said to Sony either you put MLB The Show on other consoles or we will not renew the MLB License?



Hopefully I am just talking out of my *** lol

I mean that is pretty much what happened. MLB wanted the game to have more exposure and forced Sony to go multi platform.

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[ninertravel]

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I think it's going to come down to if roster carryover is still there or not.

If roster carryover is not there and season carryover is not there, they would have to start entirely from scratch. Well maybe give or take if they do part of the minors roster for SDS like last year.

Now I didn't start following the FM roster until 2016 so I am not sure how long it took before year to year carryover started but I would guess it took longer than a month.

If they do it, I can see it taking 2-3 months because they are starting from base one as opposed to transfer and update.

i seriously doubt carry over will be there because Xbox has no prior feature they won't add a feature into PS5 that isn't on xbox to much work. Xbox is going to be the downfall of the game sadly. (and no lets not have a console war over that)

[tabarnes19_SDS]

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I didn't read the entire 15+ pages, but this part I don't like. I don't understand why there needs to be a difference between simulation and competitive. I can see the difference with casual. So competitive is if I'm batting and I time my swing properly, I'm going to get a hit or homerun regardless if Mike Trout or the 25th man on the Tigers is at the plate, just because I have stick skills and move the plate coverage indicator in the right place. You have to be able to play the game well to win, but I don't want to see anyone hit like Trout just because of stick skills. And this is the online game style. I'd hope that Trout would get more hits if even if I don't get a good swing/plate coverage than the a bench player and that would depend on stick skills anyway.

I just responded to something like this on Twitter yesterday. You have the crowd that believes a perfect contact swing should result in a hit everytime. The reality is you only control what you do. There is also a defensive portion. A perfectly placed defender or a ball hit on the nose at a defender should not result In a hit.

A perfect release on a jump shot would not result in a basket if the defender blocks the ball.

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[ComfortablyLomb]

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No PC?

Huge bummer. So disappointing.

[XtremeDunkz]

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i seriously doubt carry over will be there because Xbox has no prior feature they won't add a feature into PS5 that isn't on xbox to much work. Xbox is going to be the downfall of the game sadly. (and no lets not have a console war over that)

I think it's less of an xbox thing and more of a whatever new features they are adding to "revamped" franchise mode broke the ability to carryover saves so they have to reprogram it from scratch.

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[Funkycorm]

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i seriously doubt carry over will be there because Xbox has no prior feature they won't add a feature into PS5 that isn't on xbox to much work. Xbox is going to be the downfall of the game sadly. (and no lets not have a console war over that)

I mean it probably won't be but who knows how much difference there is in programming. They are all just PCs at this point.

Speaking theoretically, it could be there on the xbox. It just opens files from the previous game and it would pull nothing up and just be a dead link in the game. Again theoretical. It probably isn't there but they seemed to choose the words specifically saying year to year saves weren't there leaving out roster and sliders.

I am sure it is still enough to make most roster makers hold off until something concrete comes out. No doubt about that.

I think the likely reason it's not there would be if they added attributes or some kind or adjusted roster size. This is likely a reason why carry over saves are gone as well. That's just my perogative though.

[ninertravel]

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I think it's less of an xbox thing and more of a whatever new features they are adding to "revamped" franchise mode broke the ability to carryover saves so they have to reprogram it from scratch.

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I hope you are right and that is the reason. if it is it's best for the future.

[ASUBoy93]

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I'm worried about RTTS being tied to DD. It feels like it could end up the route that 2k took with MyCareer were attributes are heavily capped to keep the playing field equal in online environments.



As long as we can play RTTS offline with at least the weighted archetypes introduced in recent years, then that's fine. But I'd hate it if we can only have one character model in RTTS and ability caps enforced due to H2H play.


I want to believe SDS won't do this. But you never know, they are just another company in the grand scheme of things.

[Cod]

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I guess $70 is going to be the new norm for PS5 games...

[ckarlic]

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I wonder if we would be able to play the Show on the PC through the Microsoft store and Xbox ultimate. It would be nice but I wont hold my breath for it.

[jrnlgrn]

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I guess $70 is going to be the new norm for PS5 games...

Game prices haven't gone up since 2005 I'm surprised we made it this long without a price hike.

[Caulfield]

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I wonder if we would be able to play the Show on the PC through the Microsoft store and Xbox ultimate. It would be nice but I wont hold my breath for it.

if someone winds up being able to mod everything through microsoft and the xbox, I'd seriously consider a switch. and I've never owned an xbox. been a diehard PlayStation guy since 1998

[redsoxfan31]

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I wonder if we would be able to play the Show on the PC through the Microsoft store and Xbox ultimate. It would be nice but I wont hold my breath for it.

I thought the head of Microsoft said this was only for first party games on Xbox? So I think that would wind up excluding SDS since they were exclusive to Sony until now

[TheBleedingRed21]

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if someone winds up being able to mod everything through microsoft and the xbox, I'd seriously consider a switch. and I've never owned an xbox. been a diehard PlayStation guy since 1998

That’s now how it works. So don’t hold your breath LOL.