R.B.I. Baseball 14 Announced For Current and Next-Gen Consoles, Mobile Devices Too

[C.J.S.]

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I don't see this being an arcade style game.
They aren't going to let MLB THE SHOW walk away with that market.

[aguero90]

The one reason I can think of it being close to a sim is for xbox owners. They won't be happy if it's not a sim because it'll be the only baseball game they can play. Having a ps4, my game will be the show, but much like I did with 2k, I'll pick this up just to have another one.

[TerryP]

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Maybe MLBam just bought the game engine from 2ksports. 2k didn't want to spend the money on baseball licensing, so MLB probably offered to buy them out. The 2k** name is kind of a 2ksports trademark so they went with another name. The timing for 2k ending their series and the announcement of RBI Baseball '14 really makes this seem possible. May just be coincidence but Take 2 is publishing it, too.

Would make sense, but I guess we'll just have to hurry up and wait for info.

[Kayotick]

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Man this is intriguing, we need more info darn it!

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[AntiBandwagoner]

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Far too little information to make assumptions at this point.

[illmatic04]

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Couldn't be more excited to see what's in store for us, of course The Show will be amazing as it has been every year but being an Xbox One owner I am really looking forward to this game .. my guess this will be a SIM

[mess98]

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To be honest, I'd be happy with an arcade-style game as long as it includes a roster management system close to as perfect as The Show's.

I love OOTP, but there's just something about making a big trade for a SP and then going out and pitching his first game.

[fish61324]

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You do know it's been announced that it is an arcade style and NOT sim........

[opd897]

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You do know it's been announced that it is an arcade style and NOT sim........

This has been an ongoing discussion here in this thread as no one that I'm aware of has seen an announcement either way. If you have a link to this announcement I would be interested in reading it.

[roadman]

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You do know it's been announced that it is an arcade style and NOT sim........

It's strong speculation at this point.

If you are talking about Pasta, he pulled that away from Twitter.

If you do have a link, please share.

[fistofrage]

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Far too little information to make assumptions at this point.

Nonsense, you are on the Overreaction Sports message board, we are supposed to make assumptions and get all up in a lather before we have any facts......carry on.

[dickey1331]

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I don't see this being an arcade style game.

They aren't going to let MLB THE SHOW walk away with that market.

The baseball market isn't very big.

[Will I Am]

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The baseball market isn't very big.

All they need is the xbox market.

[joedogg9999]

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The baseball market isn't very big.

Either was the basketball market untill nba 2k became great. The Show doesnt touch a million copies on the ps3 but I guarentee it would soar well beyond that if it were on the xbox too. Remember baseball is americas sport and the xbox is americas console and outsells the playstation in america. Theres a much bigger market for baseball games on xbox tha. Playstation. In all honesty, The Show isnt a "great" baseball game. It just looks so good because its the 6/10 chick who hangs out with 3/10 fat chicks to make herself look like an 8. Mlb 2k was so awful that it made the show look far better than it was. Honestly the only thing the show did better than 2k was the graphics and animations. 2k was so horrendus in that category that it actually made a much larger difference than it should have.

If xbox had a truly good baseball game (mvp baseball) it would easily sell over a million. Basically, if you build it, they will come.

[Money99]

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Either was the basketball market untill nba 2k became great. The Show doesnt touch a million copies on the ps3 but I guarentee it would soar well beyond that if it were on the xbox too. Remember baseball is americas sport and the xbox is americas console and outsells the playstation in america. Theres a much bigger market for baseball games on xbox tha. Playstation. In all honesty, The Show isnt a "great" baseball game. It just looks so good because its the 6/10 chick who hangs out with 3/10 fat chicks to make herself look like an 8. Mlb 2k was so awful that it made the show look far better than it was. Honestly the only thing the show did better than 2k was the graphics and animations. 2k was so horrendus in that category that it actually made a much larger difference than it should have.

If xbox had a truly good baseball game (mvp baseball) it would easily sell over a million. Basically, if you build it, they will come.

I believe MVP 2004 sold 2.5M copies - by far the largest amount of any baseball game in the past 2 generations of consoles.

I agree that The Show gets a pass on a lot of things due to it's aesthetics.
And it does a lot of good things on the field as well, but I always had more fun with 2K.
I've said it before that if 2K looked and moved like The Show, it would be the one everyone's talking about.

Anyhoo, I do think there's room for more than 1 baseball game on the market and they can both be simulations of the sport as well.

RBI could very well be non-sim, but we forget that when RBI came out years ago, it was considered a sim. In fact, I think it was the first baseball game that featured real players.
Who's to say they don't want to carry on that tradition?
And if it is arcadey, if it's fun it may be well worth it's sticker price.
Especially if it combined fun gameplay with some elements from their MLB Empire game.