Take-Two Interactive Suggests MLB Exclusivity May End When 2012 Deal Expires

[Chef Matt]

Quote:

blah blah blah blah MVP Baseball 2013 could happen blah blah blah blah

LMAO, yes that would suffice.

[Beebe's Kid]

The Show is pretty, and it is a good game, possibly great...however, give MVP a crack at next-gen, and it's ovah!!

Maybe it's been to long, and some forget, or maybe some think The Show is the best, because it's all they've ever known.

Competition is absolutely the best thing that could happen to us. MVP will show everybody else what a baseball game should be, and they will all be scrambling to beat the champ... we get MVP, and we get the other companies to step it way up trying to beat MVP. Win/win. We can't freaking lose!

[EnigmaNemesis]

Keep in mind people, the MVP team was dismantled and done with a long time ago. (so to think them coming with the same branding and all of a sudden "game over" for every other baseball game is crazy talk) Especially when The Show IMO far surpassed MVP in every way... just nostalgia keeps one in thei hearts.

With all the issues EA is having with NBA, etc, there is no guarantee for anything great or anything at all initially.

All Star Baseball team was dismantled, Microsoft has the rights to High Heat, yet did nothing with it.

So it will still be a rough first start for a new game 2013, especially how refined The Show will be, and hopefully 2K baseball as well.

[Ollienyy]

Quote: Originally Posted by DickDalewood

.... Where exactly did 2K state they would stop making baseball games?

I meant in the series, but how would they make more if they don't get the MLB license?

[EnigmaNemesis]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ollienyy

I meant in the series, but how would they make more if they don't get the MLB license?

They will still have the license, but it will not be "exclusive" for third parties. Which means it is open for all companies to purchase a right to make an MLB game.

[nemesis04]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ollienyy

I meant in the series, but how would they make more if they don't get the MLB license?

They are talking about an exclusive deal. They would continue to make a baseball game.

[Artman22]

Quote: Originally Posted by MLB01

I personally don't believe that applies to this situation because MLB 2K hasn't been any competition for MLB The Show since 08. MLB The Show is competing with itself anymore.

The show is blessed to have developers who don't add gimicks, but continue to build on a solid foundation. The same will evetually start to happen for mlb2k as well. If YOU don't see the improvements on mlb2k from 2k9 to 2k10 then I don't know what to tell you. The game will continue to improve. These things take time.

[w1ck3d50xf4n]

2K Sports has never made a decent baseball game. Every year they produce garbage. I stopped buying their baseball games back in 2007 and haven't looked back. MVP Baseball was a great baseball series. It's the one game EA did really well. The Show is a good game and luckily I own a PS3 so I can get my MLB gaming fix but some of the things that are left out of this game baffle me. The weather is horrible. 95% of the time it doesn;t change. No rainouts, no delays. MVP had these in 2004. If you play at fields like Safeco the roof stays open all the time. In Boston the weather NEVER changes. Maybe once out of every 50 games you will get an overcast game, Anyone that has ever lived in New England knows how fickle the weather can be in the spring and summer.

Also The Show doesn't have a Playoff Mode. A clear oversight. The Show has great graphics, no doubt about it, but I am starting to feel they are just producing the same game year after year. MVP always had something fresh to bring to the table. The Show is getting a bit stale in my opinion.

And is it just me or does anyone else have trouble playing the NHL series by EA. The NHL is the only thing EA really has going for themselves right now, especially if they lose the exclusive NFL rights, but NHL 10 was so hard to just pick up and play. It was beyond complex. I'm no idiot but I also don't want to spend 3 weeks just trying to figure out the controls to a video game. With their NBA game a complete joke, Madden on the way down, and the funky controls for the NHL series. I almost scared what MVP Baseball 2013 might look like. I do hope EA the MLB license back and that they can regroup and produce some quality games again. Competition makes the games better.