MLB The Show 25
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@The_Joneser_PSN regarding the first paragraph … If that would be true, then you do not need marketing and/or advertising … WE buy the game no matter (and we only debate about this here not knowing why), that is true though
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@The_Joneser_PSN said in MLB The Show 25:
I don't think this is true at all. Do you really think that the cover athlete sells copies?
For some people? Yes.
For you and I? No.
How much of a difference a cover athlete makes would be an interesting question to see an actual answer to. I have to believe they make a difference though, otherwise why would all these games MLB, Madden, NBA2k, NHL2k continue to pay these athletes what is probably a sizable amount to put them on the cover.
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I think the reveal may be some time this week!!!!!!!!!!!!! They teased it on their social media!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@YOSHI24_XBL, yes. I am definitely being too literal, here… every product will and must employ some marketing campaign to, at the very least, let people who aren’t aware of it know it exists.
But I don’t think the cover athlete matters (I do concede I may be incorrect). Nobody buys Apple products because they like Bella Ramsey, but the fact that her commercials tell them that there’s something shiny and new that their friends have and they don’t moves product. The marketing helps.
So, yeah, if we’re talking about the cover athlete as the face of a larger marketing campaign, then what they do may drive sales… but sports video games don’t sell like a box of Wheaties where a young Coco Gauff fan pitches a fit until mom throws it in the cart; I still don’t think the choice of cover athlete will move the needle.
But you’re right… me basically saying that the game sells itself is not true.
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@Dolenz64_XBL, well, I still don’t think Elly’s picture on the box generates sales in and of itself, but, yes, like I said to Yoshi24, perhaps as part of a larger marketing campaign (and why these games pay athletes a lot of money); I was being too literal in limiting it to the cover itself.
I’d also be interested to see data on how many sales game companies attribute to marketing efforts as opposed to, say, having a monopoly on baseball video games.
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Judge, Sale, or Skubal.
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Has there ever been a pitcher on the cover? Aside from Ohtani, of course. I can't remember ever seeing just a pitcher. Someone like Skenes could be the first.
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@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS no pitcher. I agree that skenes would be the first.
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@The_Joneser_PSN Good post … I am 90% on your side. I do not care who is on the cover … but the fact, that we have 20 threads (I am overexaggerating for the cause of this post
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@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in MLB The Show 25:
Has there ever been a pitcher on the cover? Aside from Ohtani, of course. I can't remember ever seeing just a pitcher. Someone like Skenes could be the first.
I think Marcus Stroman was on the Canadian version of the game's cover.
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I will be very upset if Elly gets the cover. LED the league in strikeouts, sub .260, not even top 30 in every major stat besides stolen bases. It’ll be another Jazz situation. They just pick the “flashiest” players that deserve none of the hype. Really disappointing.
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Forbes writes elly, skenes and henderson will be on show25 cover. And maybe also legend. They write if you buy it digital you can change it who you want to be on cover
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I do love all the hype over something that really doesn't matter. It's not like a see a massive amount of people using Jeter, Guerrero or Jazz in the game.
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@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in MLB The Show 25:
Has there ever been a pitcher on the cover? Aside from Ohtani, of course. I can't remember ever seeing just a pitcher. Someone like Skenes could be the first.
Well, if Elly is on the cover this year, he was an OOP Starting Pitcher in 24, so I guess that counts.
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Because Elly's swagger sells bruh
