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The sports video game world rejoiced when it was recently announced<\/a> that the lauded MLB the Show baseball franchise will spread to other, as yet unannounced, home consoles (but not the PC). This is great news not only for those non-PlayStation owners who\u2019ve been wanting to get their hands on the series, but it\u2019s also a validation of sorts for developer San Diego Studios that its work is good enough to share with the rest of the gaming fanbases. Unfortunately, I don\u2019t see this as a simple case of Sony, the series\u2019 publisher and owner of San Diego Studios, agreeing to put the franchise on other platforms.<\/p>\n Doesn\u2019t more versions mean more money for Sony? Probably, but I envision other obstacles along the way. Mainly, I wonder if San Diego is going to handle the other versions all by themselves. If they do, either it is going to have to expand considerably, or it\u2019s going to have to struggle through putting out as many as three other versions with the staff it has. Either way isn\u2019t a sure way to success. Studio expansion can fundamentally alter the culture and values that have made the developer great in the past, while standing pat and soldiering on with just the existing developers is perhaps a certain path to burnout and disaster.<\/p>\n San Diego might also choose to outsource the other versions to outside studios. The results of this could go either way. There are plenty of developers that do a great job with ports, delivering seamless representations, and some that don\u2019t. Meanwhile, all of this will have to be done on the usual yearly schedule (assuming that won\u2019t change) \u2013 a particularly grueling development schedule that doesn\u2019t suit every studio.<\/p>\n This expansion to new home consoles comes during Major League Baseball and Sony extending the league\u2019s licensing deal with the publisher. Was this expansion mandated by the MLB, perhaps spurred by the poor reception<\/a> to the MLB-developed R.B.I. Baseball series? Was it necessary for Sony to do this to ameliorate development costs and licensing fees?<\/p>\n The former could mean that this isn\u2019t necessarily a move that Sony favors if it had its druthers, and the latter could signal that Sony and the franchise is in relatively weak position despite the overall popularity of the series. I\u2019ve heard that historically the MLB has over-valued its license, which is part of the reason 2K backed out of the sport in 2013. This, it could be argued, might also be keeping competitor Electronic Arts from just swooping in. Perhaps even EA knows there\u2019s a ceiling to how much the license is worth. All this is to say that the move to multiple systems might be one of financial necessity.<\/p>\n The effects of this move to\u00a0San Diego Studio from a work and financial perspective could influence the series’ approach to microtransactions, which modes (like Diamond Dynasty) it prioritizes, and the overall quality of the series. It’s great that baseball fans on the other home consoles are getting to enjoy the franchise. I just hope that product itself doesn’t suffer in the process.<\/p>\n\n \t\t\t The sports video game world rejoiced when it was recently announced that the lauded MLB the Show baseball franchise w…<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Will Going Multi-Platform Be Good For MLB The Show? - ITTeacherITFreelance.hk","description":"The sports video game world rejoiced when it was recently announced that the lauded MLB the Show baseball franchise w..."},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\\\"IT\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2](\\\"http:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo2-2.png\\\"){kind=logo}
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