MLB 2K Series is Likely Dead

[horrormaster]

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I mentioned Konami 20 posts ago.

Well don't I look foolish. That'll teach me to skim posts.

[Sandman42]

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Even if EA did get the rights to make a baseball game again, I doubt we would see one until the new consoles come out. Wouldn't be very cost effective for them to build an engine for maybe 1 year of a game until the new consoles come out.

[Spanky]

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... any time a sports game dies it's not a good thing for the consumers.

This is true is most instances. But not in this case.

This title needed to be aborted, badly, and much sooner. It was obvious long ago that 2k had no clue how to develop a baseball game. And yet many kept hoping, with blind faith, that next year would be the year. And it never was.

2k needed to give it up and hand over the reins to somebody that knows what they're doing. I'm assuming that will be EA. 2k has been doing nothing but impeding progress the last several years.

If EA, despite its faults, had the opportunity to work on a baseball title several years ago, I am confident it would have succeeded in putting out a decent, if not above average, baseball game by now.

Ordinarily, it's bad for the consumer when a company fails, leaving only one option. But it's different in this case, since 2k was hardly any competition for the other title, as much as many on these boards tried real hard to convince themselves that it was.

It's absolutely mind-boggling how the same company can develop such a successful title in one sport (basketball) and fail miserably in another.

[Scribe1980]

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In retrospect it sure seems a puzzling business decision by Take Two to offer up exclusive third-party rights to MLB Properties to gain the necessary licenses, then not devote their full time and resources to hiring the very best people possible. They let the series rot, in effect, until it was too late.

With seven years of hindsight, it seemed to be little more than reactionary response to EA's napalming of NFL 2K5, something along the lines of "oh yeah,well we can play that way, too."

And then they had it, and didn't do what was needed to compete in the marketplace. Just a very strange way to run a business.

[bigdoc85]

While MLB The Show was a far more superior baseball game, MLB 2k 12 was far more fun to play. The Show gave you a more realistic feel and true to life, 2k was just pick up the controller and flat out plain ole, just have fun. I only have the PS3 only for the Show, otherwise it just collects dust. All my other games, the 360 dominates.

I think that's just preference. I have both consoles. I prefer the PS3 and never could get into the 2k baseball series on PS3 or the Xbox for that matter. My concern is that 2k sports, as a company, may be dead after the next NBA 2k release.

[jeremym480]

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MLB 2k gets a bad rap, but it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I would venture to guess that half the people who are trashing it probably haven't played it in years.

This is actually the first year since 08 that I decided to get 2k instead of The Show. Is it as good as The Show? No. The Show does a lot of the little thing so much better. However, I will say that it's every bit just as fun as The Show. If not more fun because of the pitching. Also the Franchise has a bunch of things that make it more interesting than The Show's franchise. Which is probably the most stale franchise of any sports game that I play. The weird thing is that if we could mix both games together, then we would have a damn good baseball game. But, if The Show continues to ignore simple things like career stats, then this may very well be the end of my baseball playing days.

[RoyalBoyle78]

First of all, FYI, for all the guys saying to port The show over, it will never happen, never. The show is owned by Sony, so why in the world would they do this, to sell s few more copies of the show. I don't think so, cause in the end it would be helping M$ and I don't think they care for doing that at all, not ever. Not even to sell a few more thousand copies of the show, the show sells well on its own for only the Sony brand, nice though but it would never happen, so keep dreaming.


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[soxfan603]

As much as I love the NBA 2K series, I can't say I feel sorry for 2K Sports. They produced a really, really, bad baseball game for years. I remember MLB 2K6 was pretty much broken it was so glitched out and it never got much better from there. Those of us that are lucky enough to own a PS3 know how much better The Show is. 2K Sports just never got their act together. When you get beat out by a game that is only on one console, you are doing something really wrong. They did it to themselves. What I can't figure out is how this is the same company that has produced the greatest NBA video game of all time and their football games weren't too shabby either. I think they never really cared too much about baseball. It's the only way to explain how they dropped the ball.

[mva5580]

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I can't believe there are people seriously saying "Port The Show to the 360." What planet are you living on?

[soxfan603]

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MLB 2k gets a bad rap, but it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I would venture to guess that half the people who are trashing it probably haven't played it in years.

This is actually the first year since 08 that I decided to get 2k instead of The Show. Is it as good as The Show? No. The Show does a lot of the little thing so much better. However, I will say that it's every bit just as fun as The Show. If not more fun because of the pitching. Also the Franchise has a bunch of things that make it more interesting than The Show's franchise. Which is probably the most stale franchise of any sports game that I play. The weird thing is that if we could mix both games together, then we would have a damn good baseball game. But, if The Show continues to ignore simple things like career stats, then this may very well be the end of my baseball playing days.

I agree with you about the stats thing but I picked this game up at Redbox a couple of months ago and tried my best to give it another chance. It was no fun, I couldn't get the hang of the controls, and the players were so cartoony it wasn't even funny. I know playing The Show for so long makes me biased but it was like driving a Mercedes for the last 4 years and then test driving a beatup '82 Datsun Pickup truck that backfires every time you shift and has duct tape holding the dashboard together. It drives but once you drive that Mercedes you can never go back. Although I also agree they need to update that Mercedes soon because it is getting a little stale.

[Gilders335]

Exactly! lol Thats what I thought. Why doesn't the show do the 1 mill context they actually make money

lol god they're dumb...

[ExtraWhistle]

Hopefully EA gets in the game, MVP 05 is still my favorite baseball game.
It would be amazing if they just updated graphics/ teams and kept the core from that game in.
Maybe add a my player mode too.

Agreed. I played MVP 05 for GameCube and I still miss it, especially owner mode.

[CrackinBacks]

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don't bother wishing, its a PS3 exclusive, like Halo is to the 360

Well with Sony's huge financial troubles, it wouldn't be surprising, they'd listen to any opportunity to make some money. But I doubt MS would pay for the rights to have it ported to 360

[horrormaster]

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PC gamers are now doomed for eternity to play MVP 2005 or MLB 2k12

[SpartanBaller]

Bring back MVP!!