Over the years, as game fans have tried to get rid of something hypocritical, any illusion, that could put a baseball game on the Xbox One, inevitably one might wonder why Tony wouldn't just make MLB an Xbox Show, if there wasn't competing product there. "Won't they sell more and make more money?"
Certainly, I always thought, and occasionally I would answer. Why doesn't Chevy make parts for Ford, too? Won't they sell more and make more money?
That's what made last week's news such a bang on the forehead. The only thing that can criticize it as a silly or uneducated forum discussion it actually happened. It shows you hell I know!
Once again, on Monday, Major League baseball and Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that, in their agreement to continue their MLB The Show licensing agreement year after year, the series will be coming to other console platforms. While no mention of Xbox or Nintendo has been announced, media outlets for both companies have also reported on the media (Xbox notes immediately, "No more remote games. ”)
Considering that Sony should be embraced by the frog, small and small developers, playing the role of the platform, we see the biggest business news of the 2021 games two years earlier. I think it depends on who has given up what should come to this point. But it does show how the unusual limitation of the exclusive licensing agreement ended up being the league that sold it, rather than the publishers, developers – or in this case, the owners of the console – frozen.
We currently have college-enrolled sports video players who have heard of the issue of sex 2K Games and the 2005 Great Rebound Hookup. This is where, back to EA Sports and its exclusive agreement with the NFL, Take-Two Interactive negotiated a special-but-not-quite-happy deal that created 2K Games (2K Games, of course) and the MLB 2K. As Madden NFL roamed the NFL 2K5 (published, in fact, by Sega), so did Take-Two take on the knight of EA Sports & # 39 ;, his favorite MVP baseball series.
Except that the project was only a third-party build, meaning console makers were free to develop their own MLB games and Tony did. In the meantime, MLB 2K's Take-Two plans can best be described as having more money than the brain.
News accounts at the time estimated MLB-Take two pact worth $ 200 million in total. Later it will be blamed for the $ 30 million a year drag on 2K Games below. Take the First Two of MLB 2K early MLB game launches and stick Visual Concepts with a bag on the production plan for nine months. MLB 2K9 it was bad and the series, even as the only thing to buy on the Xbox 360, never fully recovered. MLB 2K13
The real lost in all this: Major League baseball. Sure, it paid off, but now, it didn't have a dance partner on the Xbox exactly as the Xbox One was launching. The electronic & # 39; MVP engine was more than a generation old; maybe Konami (with the engine driving Pro Yakyuu Spirits) had a way to make an MLB game. But no one wanted to pay the expected MLB load, or so I heard. In any case, no one can get the Xbox One or PlayStation 4 video games ready since the beginning of the year. EA Sports has tried that with NBA Live 14 the same year, but at least they had the current assets they were working on.
MLB's live the rest of the Xbox One, serving R.B.I's Fyre Fest food. Baseball as a placeholder. It was clear to see who owed it to any potential contract to create a game that was completely featured on Xbox, and it wasn't MLB. And with very little change in the last five years, I have to ask what Major League baseball has offered to get this done. It doesn't make any sense for Sony to take less money or invest more in doing this work. However, as I said above, I'm not a rapper
And obviously, this is about MLB The Show, that Franchise, coming to other platforms. Somebody has to install that, or pay to be copied. If Tony San Diego does the porting, I think they command a good price. Besides, it's easy to imagine that Microsoft and Nintendo are imposing certain costs on a third party authorized to do the work while Tony San Diego offers them a leading platform.
But then again – if having a baseball game imitated it has always been a priority for Microsoft or Nintendo, they would do it all this time for themselves, just like Sony. Why pay anything now? My guess is that MLB created this company and might have paid for it in some way, to simply break the painful barrier and return to the market it had locked itself in.
We now understand the actual damage a special license can do, and not to customers or developers. In 2005, Takeha-Mbili came stumbling into the club as an alcoholic and made the Major League baseball sound like the hottest one there for spending so much time. But there is a regret the next morning, and in the case of MLB, that morning would take 15 years.
The storytelling file is a column by Polygon and ideas on the interplay of sports and video games.