MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

[Money99]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

Love all the unfounded speculation here... Guys, lets at least wait to kick the crap out of this game until it arrives. We truly don't know what the dev team has done to this game, but I hate this "I'm gonna buy The Show" stuff just because everyone THOUGHT 2K gave up on this game, which clearly they have NOT...

Beat me to it.
Amazing how many insider's we have on these boards. I didn't realize that half the members here work for 2K.

Im so mad i spent $150 on a damn ps3 a few months ago cuz i thought it wasn't coming back... guess ill be getting 2 baseball games this year tho...

I hear you. I did the same. It was more because we needed a 2nd BR player and my kids basically took over my Xbox. But it was also because I thought I would be buying The Show 13.
But after playing MLB 12 for a few days, I realized I was going to play 2K12 for another year.
Now I'm considering making the PS3 their main console and I take back my beloved 360.

This year looks to be a great one for me:
State of Decay
New GoW game and now
MLB2K13!!!

[kylefoley94]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

I want to buy into this and believe it but I have searched on Amazon, Best Buy, Gamestop, and Gamefly and there's no traces of MLB 2K13 being released. The game isn't on any of those sights so I don't know if I'm buying into the hype so I am going to wait until we get closer to the release date and see if it's true, hopefully so, it'd be great to have 13 The Show and 2K13

[pietasterp]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

Love all the unfounded speculation here... Guys, lets at least wait to kick the crap out of this game until it arrives. We truly don't know what the dev team has done to this game, but I hate this "I'm gonna buy The Show" stuff just because everyone THOUGHT 2K gave up on this game, which clearly they have NOT...

You're right that's it's all speculation, but I would say there is at least reasonable circumstantial evidence that full-bore development on the game has not been ongoing and that at a minimum, it would be surprising if there were major upgrades to the game with it being a 1-year licensing agreement made at a relatively late date for the last year of a console cycle on a product Take Two has openly stated they are not enthusiastic about spending more money on. I agree that we should wait for the final product to say anything definitively about the game, but I don't think it's at all unreasonable to put 2 and 2 together and at a minimum, significantly temper expectations on what to expect...I mean, let's say it was EA announcing in August an NBA Live release this year: would you really expect that game to be awesome?

Same here.

I'm very surprised by this news, for sure. I do think it is a positive for the sports-gaming industry, though, as competition is always a good thing. Hopefully now that 2K doesn't have the exclusive license hanging over its head, it can funnel some of those monies towards game development.

I wouldn't hold my breath...cost savings won't be re-allocated to game development. The MLB license has been estimated to be a $30-mil per annum drag on TT's bottom line. All that will happen is they'll stop writing down the losses from MLB license valuation in fiscal 2014.

[PVarck31]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

I'm sure it will at least be a little more than a simple roster update. But people need to realize this was probably something that wasn't a sure thing for the developers. I doubt 2k would have VC working on the game without knowing for sure the game would be released. So we have to cut them some slack this year.

And good for MLB wanting to make a deal with 2k. Glad they were smart enough to realize not having a game on the dominant console would be a mistake. I am sure MLB intends to extend this deal into the next-gen as well.

So whether you are a fan of this game or not, this is great for sports gaming. In a genre that's dying, a game came back from the dead. ZOMBIE MLB 2K13!

And please leave the Show out of the thread. Thanks

[RoyalBoyle78]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

Eric Fisher <s>@</s>EricFisherSBJ 2K Sports/MLB renewal is for this year only - one yr pact to serve as bridge to next console cycle



Eric Fisher <s>@</s>EricFisherSBJ
MLB did not want to sit out the yr on Xbox 360, went w incumbent party while larger options sorted out

maybe it could be more then one year if the game turns out worthy.

[Kccitystar]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

While I'm aware VC is developing this game again, what's stopping 2K from contracting Konami to develop an MLB version of Pro Baseball Spirits? Haven't they done this before with MLB Power Pros?

[Baseballking888]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

Nice! This is great news!

[Mt Oread]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

While I'm aware VC is developing this game again, what's stopping 2K from contracting Konami to develop an MLB version of Pro Baseball Spirits? Haven't they done this before with MLB Power Pros?

It would be the fact that 2K would not want to spend money on a baseball game if it sold numbers like The Show.

There is a way to make money on baseball games, but it is going to take a new company to not only get a good deal from MLB, but release a game that doesn't instantly get attacked because of what the franchise was like 4 years ago.

[bmgst8]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

it looks like the game will be the regular price of $60... just saw this on the store section of 2k's website

https://store.2k.com/Product.aspx?pSKU=GAME-MLB2K13&vSKU=2K-7-10425-49258-7

[iRepIndiana]

may make the switch if they can produce a true online franchise

Those are fightin' words.

I hope they make a push for the Xbox users and give them a playable game.

Like the show has given ps3 users.

[lhslancers]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

13 would have to knock my socks off at that price.

[tvman]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

it looks like the game will be the regular price of $60... just saw this on the store section of 2k's website

https://store.2k.com/Product.aspx?pS...-10425-49258-7

Is 2K nuts, at that price count me out on a first day purchase.

[HustlinOwl]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

Those are fightin' words.

I hope they make a push for the Xbox users and give them a playable game.

Like the show has given ps3 users.

have been asking this for years, single season franchise is pointless

[nemesis04]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

Here is another article from Kotaku:

http://kotaku.com/5974561/what-can-w...-much-probably

Good to hear there will be baseball on the 360. A little surprised on the price if indeed it is a minimal upgrade! We got better value when they packaged NBA 2k with this game last year.

[icemann6]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

This is great news. I was THIS close to buying a ps3 this week for 170 but the fact that this is likely the last year of the current consoles was eating me inside. Maybe I'm crazy, but I actually enjoy playing MLB 2K12 and the only reason that I quit was because of the silly franchise injury bug. Quite frankly, if all they did was fix the bugs from last year, realign the rosters and the divisions, and make check swinging even remotely close to functional I will gladly buy the game. I'll probably buy it anyways cause I love baseball and its a fun game to play. Regardless of what the insecure killjoys want us to believe, this game is far from "the bigs" and is a welcome addition back for another year before the rest of the competition gets involved.