Quadraphonic
Member
Yup. MS and Nintendo could have published their own baseball games at any time.
When Namco brought RBI out here for the Wii, it was published under 2K.
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MLB 2K is dead
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Yup. MS and Nintendo could have published their own baseball games at any time.
When Namco brought RBI out here for the Wii, it was published under 2K.
Yes please. MLB Power Pros!!! Such an awesome game.
Ninja Scooter
Member
and both have done more than 2K did with MLB, so why have faith that they'll do any better with the NFL license?
ViperVisor
Member
2K Baseball was always the bastard child.
Strange with the legacy Sega had with World Series Baseball.
I remember you had auto fielding on the first dreamcast game.
Strange with the legacy Sega had with World Series Baseball.
I remember you had auto fielding on the first dreamcast game.
Its not up to EA to buy, its up to MLB to sell them.
Although after how this contract turned out, I could see MLB not wanting to go down that route again.
I keep dreaming.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
EA throws too much money at them for that to be a possibility. Their only hope is that 2k can convince them that competing videogames makes everyone better, and then hope the NFL realizes they'll make a crap load of money either way.
But the crap load will probably be more with EA's exclusive deal and honestly, why wouldn't the NFL take that? Haven't Madden sales slowed lately? They don't seem to be the sales juggernauts that they were when this deal was struck.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
WSB2k1 was such an abomination. The Saturn ones were so perfect.
WSB 2k3 IIRC was the next release and it was way better. Idk what happened to them this gen, they were always just so unpolished, like every single release was rushed out to market.
NaturalHigh
Member
In MLB 2K's place they need to remake Super Baseball 2020. That would be the shit.
Well if their is one exclusive doing good is this for Sony in US which help increase the ps3 sale/
So i would prefer it to stay exclusive.
Psychoward
Banned
Whoa whoa whoa, try 1 year, 2k11 and 10 were great games.
JohnTinker
Limbaugh Parrot
Basileus777
Member
This is kind of funny considering it's Madden's shitty engine and tech that keep it locked in mediocrity.
Bending_Unit_22
Member
Yeah, what I was thinking. I'm still playing MLB Power Pros 2008, well My Life mode at least. My brother is also, he took my copy with him forcing me to spend $2 to buy another used.
Fox Mulder
Member
All the exclusive license bullshit has done is get me to stop playing sports games. I used to love playing these games with friends or nerd out with a few seasons of franchise mode, but it sucked how EA got the nfl license when 2k was better, and 2k got the MLB license when EA had the better game.
I'd love to try the show, but buying a ps3 as a second console was too expensive most of this gen.
I'd love to try the show, but buying a ps3 as a second console was too expensive most of this gen.
Basileus777
Member
Not without a license.
Para bailar La Bomba
Banned
Go Flushing Metros!
10 was awful, completely broken online and sloppy.
11 was better just because of Jordan, but still broken/gimped online.
12 was the same exact game just with other HOF's in it this time. Still gimpy online, and completely broken on PC for the longest time.
13?
Small incremental changes here and there but they still haven't removed so many cheap things about the game.
lowhighkang_LHK
Member
Looking at sales, The Show does about 10x's as much as 2k does. This is really one of the few instances where the superiority of a sports game compared to another has even reached to the most casual gamers when you consider how well The Show sells and how abysmal MLB 2K does.
Kccitystar
Member
Time for Nintendo to bring back a version of this:
This game really made the Summer of 1998 the greatest time of my life, and the bonus teams being the developers/publishers made everything even awesomer.
Fun fact: The company that developed this game (Angel Studios) at the time, is now Rockstar San Diego. You know, the guys who made Midnight Club 2, 3 and LA. They also helped develop the RAGE engine for GTAIV, Red Dead, and Midnight Club: LA.
What 2K needs to do is simply publish a Konami developed Pro Yakyuu game using the MLB license and X360 owners will be fine. EA stepping in with another MVP Baseball, if it isn't done justice for a next-gen title they will appear to be out of step, but then again, MVP Baseball 2005 was really ahead of its time.
infinityBCRT
Member
False. The year they "took off" they spent making NHL 06 for Xbox, PS2 and PC. They didn't start development on NHL 07 for 360 until they shipped NHL 06 (and that's when development for PS2 and PC shifted over to the EA Montreal Studio on NHL 07)
Really now?
GitarooMan
Member
MVP Baseball was way better, not sure why they would want to go back to Triple Play.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Nothing was stopping EA from developing a game for the last 2 years. Take Two had been pretty open about the plan to discontinue the game for awhile now.
MLB The Show has been the best baseball game out there since at least 09, and only gets better each year (although that was minimal between 2010 and 2011). The MLB 2K series has been declining rapidly since 2K5 (but I've heard they've improved over the last two seasons, I haven't played).
The NBA 2K series is the same, it just gets better, and it's already the best (I've played, but haven't owned the 2K series since 2K12)
Madden is a terrible football game, and is a perfect example of what happens with market regulation. All-Pro Football 2K8 was bad but is still worth playing over today's Madden release.
The NHL 2K series was a wash from year-to-year, sometimes they'd get it right, sometimes it'd be horribly wrong (2K7, 2K8).... one of the best games EA makes is the NHL series, and that's because it's made by Canadians who actually have a passion for both games and the topic they're on (hockey).
The NBA 2K series is the same, it just gets better, and it's already the best (I've played, but haven't owned the 2K series since 2K12)
Madden is a terrible football game, and is a perfect example of what happens with market regulation. All-Pro Football 2K8 was bad but is still worth playing over today's Madden release.
The NHL 2K series was a wash from year-to-year, sometimes they'd get it right, sometimes it'd be horribly wrong (2K7, 2K8).... one of the best games EA makes is the NHL series, and that's because it's made by Canadians who actually have a passion for both games and the topic they're on (hockey).
ViperVisor
Member
MVP Baseball was very good but legend of it grew a bit much until The Show gave people an outlet. MVP Baseball was just a tweaked version of the Griffey N64 games.
High Heat games are still worth mourning. The best balance of realism and fun.
High Heat games are still worth mourning. The best balance of realism and fun.
Mr. Enigma
Member
Legally-binding contracts are legally-binding contracts, bro.
Mitsurux
Member
Another deal awash...
What is interesting is to think back a console generation or 2 and look at all of the choices availble for sports gamers.... then look at the current landscape... very little choices remain... sad really...
For baseball games (thinking of game modes) nothing came close to all of the modes of play offered by the MLB Power Pro's series... (A close second might have been Allstar Baseball 2005 as it had a ton of content)
How similar was that XBLA game MLB Bobble Head pros to the acctual Power Pros games, cause they looked very similar (besides art style)
I wonder how long 2k will keep the 2kShare fuction for this game going, as in theory the rosters could be updated by the fans for a year or 2 (NHL2k10 has pretty accurate rosters availble for download created by fans).
What is interesting is to think back a console generation or 2 and look at all of the choices availble for sports gamers.... then look at the current landscape... very little choices remain... sad really...
For baseball games (thinking of game modes) nothing came close to all of the modes of play offered by the MLB Power Pro's series... (A close second might have been Allstar Baseball 2005 as it had a ton of content)
How similar was that XBLA game MLB Bobble Head pros to the acctual Power Pros games, cause they looked very similar (besides art style)
I wonder how long 2k will keep the 2kShare fuction for this game going, as in theory the rosters could be updated by the fans for a year or 2 (NHL2k10 has pretty accurate rosters availble for download created by fans).
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
So you are saying EA couldn't spend the past two years developing a generic baseball game then fill it with authentic MLB players and stadiums once they get the rights? Which "legally-binding contracts" would stop that from happening? That would be the way to go if you wanted to hit the market ASAP. Get the gameplay and mechanics worked out first then add authentic details.
Wow good info, ya that summer was great man. I played this game so much it was troubling.
Man, I miss those days where there were at least three versions of each sport from competing companies, along with arcade styles of the game.
Now, there's just one sim game per sport... and while some are good, MLB The Show, the others could use some healthy competition again. Also the sports genre is severely lacking in the "fun" arcade style games. Sure we've got NBA Jam and NFL Blitz back, but we need more.
Now, there's just one sim game per sport... and while some are good, MLB The Show, the others could use some healthy competition again. Also the sports genre is severely lacking in the "fun" arcade style games. Sure we've got NBA Jam and NFL Blitz back, but we need more.
Little Green Yoda
Member
I'm going to go out on a limb and say the sales would be pretty lousy without the MLB license. Otherwise, why do people buy Madden year after year with minimal gameplay improvements?
OldJadedGamer
Banned
How well did Madden sell on the N64 when they didn't have the NFL license?
Warm Machine
Member
The Bigs and The Bigs 2.
storybook77
Member
Why would you if next-gen is around the corner though? Makes more business sense to build a new engine for a baseball game around next-gen architecture.
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
It seems like The Bigs 2 killed that franchise.
