@tmoneymill_PSN, how many RS games have you played using the timing interface? I've played over 200 this year, and I can tell you that what you're saying is 100% incorrect. Even on balls floated right down the middle of the plate, 99s will fail to reach safely roughly 60% of the time. Move the ball from the heart (but still in the strike zone), and you'll see that failure rate jump to about 70%. With my best cards, I'm hitting roughly .300 to .330, homering about once every 15 ABs through hundreds of plate appearances. Good zone players make those stats look pathetic.
It's more difficult to succeed while hitting when using the timing interface (more so when you use analog). If it was easier to succeed, then everyone would use it.
I often will switch to zone for moments when a homerun is required--or even temporarily in RS games when someone is spamming locations--because it seems that if you put that [censored] reticle anywhere near the ball and time it well, you've got a coin-flip's chance of a home run. For giggles, I played an RS game this morning using zone (I was around 630 and my opponent a little lower, I think), and it was much of the same; I didn't set the world on fire, but I hit 3 HR and 2 more perfect/perfects that each hit the wall on a screaming line drive.
While it may be difficult to line up the PCI and point the batter's eyes at the ball using zone (which is really a dumb mechanic, when you think about it), that thing is far more forgiving than both timing and directional.
That's an advantage.
