Long-standing PlayStation exclusivity aims at other -apkrig platforms

If a game from Microsoft can come out on a console from Sony, why couldn’t it be the other way around? Sony in late 2019 extended contract with Major League Baseball for the MLB game series The Show, but announced that the game will no longer be released on PlayStation in the future. Although neither party specified which platforms could be involved, the announcement on Twitter enthusiastically voted on the official accounts. Xbox i Nintenda. For a long time, however, it was not certain whether these versions would be developed by the first party team SIE San Diego Studio. We seem to have the first hint here.

First of all, it should be emphasized that the following information should be taken with caution, but in view of the above, it is probably based on the truth. The American team of San Diego Studio announced in mid-January that the news about MLB The Show 21 will come in February. New episodes of this series are usually released in March, as the last MLB The Show 20 for the PS4. In addition to the PS4 and PS5, the next installment was thought to arrive on the Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch, but now players are examining the first alleged picture of the box. It appeared on the user’s Instagram nicknamed anerdydad and captures the coverart of a new episode for the PS5 and Xbox One.

MLB The Show 21 news coming in February.

— MLB The Show (@MLBTheShow) January 15, 2021

Not everyone believed the alleged leak, but anerdydad stands by his fact that it is a real package, never publishes false information, and its credibility is to be confirmed by earlier similar revelations. The star of the box itself is Fernando Tatís Jr. from the San Diego Padres club, but of course the player is more fascinated by the PlayStation Studios logo on the packaging of the xbox version, even if it’s just a habit.

Nothing is certain except the fact that MLB The Show will no longer be just on PlayStation. We will see if other platforms will be confirmed, whether the game will be released on a PC and whether the development of all versions will be on the command of the San Diego Studio team. Fans are also very interested in when the novelty may reach the market and whether other platforms and circumstances in the world will influence its release, as might be expected.

This is Sony’s next step in multiplatform gaming. The most significant was definitely the release of Horizon Zero Dawn on PC. Earlier, the French team Quantic Dream announced that its original PlayStation exclusivity Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human will also be released on PC. But behind them was an independent team, similar to the case of Death Stranding by Kojima Productions, who from the beginning promised to bring their debut after the premiere on PS4 to PC, so in this case it was not the first party game like Horizon and MLB The Show.

And with the PlayStation Now streaming service, it’s also possible to play some of the biggest hits for the PS4, PS3 and PS2 from the cloud on a PC. But that certainly doesn’t mean that Sony is planning to release its brands on other systems en masse. Its representatives have repeatedly denied this in the past. And it wouldn’t be a surprise if, in the case of MLB The Show, this concession was a prize for maintaining a license.