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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Strong" data-source="post: 287124" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>This is basically a sidenote post, but as a baseball geek I’m compelled to reply: There’s no exclusive deal for MLB games any longer either. 2K used to have the exclusive deal, but that expired a few years ago and they chose not to renew it and they shut down MLB 2K completely. Sony was always able to make their own MLB game (The Show) even during 2K’s exclusiveity years because the deal had a caveat that allowed 1st party console developers (Sony, MS, and Nintendo) to be exempt and develop their own MLB games if they so chose (only Sony took advantage of it, partly because baseball is so huge in Japan). So nowadays, there’s no longer an exclusive deal, but there just isn’t the interest in developing MLB games like there used to be, in large part thanks to 2K killing off the other great franchises when they secured their exclusive deal (EA’s MVP, etc.), so we went from having a plethora of great MLB games in the early 2000’s to just a couple today. Now all we have is Sony’s MLB The Show (which is a great game, arguably the best sports game out there) and the rebooted R.B.I. Baseball (not so great...which is sad because the originals were so good).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Strong, post: 287124, member: 3"] This is basically a sidenote post, but as a baseball geek I’m compelled to reply: There’s no exclusive deal for MLB games any longer either. 2K used to have the exclusive deal, but that expired a few years ago and they chose not to renew it and they shut down MLB 2K completely. Sony was always able to make their own MLB game (The Show) even during 2K’s exclusiveity years because the deal had a caveat that allowed 1st party console developers (Sony, MS, and Nintendo) to be exempt and develop their own MLB games if they so chose (only Sony took advantage of it, partly because baseball is so huge in Japan). So nowadays, there’s no longer an exclusive deal, but there just isn’t the interest in developing MLB games like there used to be, in large part thanks to 2K killing off the other great franchises when they secured their exclusive deal (EA’s MVP, etc.), so we went from having a plethora of great MLB games in the early 2000’s to just a couple today. Now all we have is Sony’s MLB The Show (which is a great game, arguably the best sports game out there) and the rebooted R.B.I. Baseball (not so great...which is sad because the originals were so good). [/QUOTE]
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