R.B.I. Baseball 14 Announced For Current and Next-Gen Consoles, Mobile Devices Too

[Lovesports]

Quote: Originally Posted by RandyBass

Last RBI/Famista game was a few years ago for the 3DS in Japan. That game was an arcade game. RBI from "15 or 20 years ago" was an arcade style game. I think it's entirely reasonable to speculate that it will be an arcade style game, especially when the official Facebook page says: R.B.I. Baseball returns Spring 2014. Like I say, I would be very surprised if they bothered to transform the game into a sim style game, and in fact I'm not so sure I'd want that because it would sap a lot of the fun from the game. I got a chance to play Famista on the Nintendo DS a few years ago, the 2009 version I believe, and it was great. The AI could actually beat you on the hardest difficulty, and they had a season mode that tracked basic stats. I even managed to connect online and play against people in Japan from here in North America. The cool thing about that is that they were all playing small ball! Lol. I'm not getting my hopes up, because my gut feeling tells me they are going the nostalgia route, which would probably mean old school RBI with play now games and online versus thrown in. I guess we'll find out soon enough.

My understanding is that MLBAM is developing the game which is not the same company that developed the previous titles, therefore I stand by my comments that there is no need for speculation just yet.

[bcruise]

FWIW, these guys (MLB Advanced Media) run the MLB.com site and everything around it (like MLB.TV). It's not a development studio, and game developing is not their primary focus.

[nemesis04]

Quote: Originally Posted by bcruise

FWIW, these guys (MLB Advanced Media) run the MLB.com site and everything around it (like MLB.TV). It's not a development studio, and game developing is not their primary focus.

That is why I am curious who is developing it?

[doubledeuceR6]

Awesome news! Fingers crossed it's a an actual baseball sim.

[dalger21]

Perhaps it will be a cartoonish arcade type of game then.

[Lovesports]

Quote: Originally Posted by dalger21

Perhaps it will be a cartoonish arcade type of game then.

Perhaps it won't

[statnut]

Quote: Originally Posted by bcruise

FWIW, these guys (MLB Advanced Media) run the MLB.com site and everything around it (like MLB.TV). It's not a development studio, and game developing is not their primary focus.

They've also published these:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d..****nDerby&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...rkEmpire&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...chiseMVP&hl=en

Not saying there's a game studio, but they've made some mobile games, so they're not completely devoid of experience.

[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by nemesis04

That is why I am curious who is developing it?

Probably 2K, haha.

I wouldn't doubt if they hired some of the guys who worked on MLB2K to work on this title.
With MLB anticipating no 2K baseball, perhaps RBI is something that's been in the works for a while now.