The Show FINALLY has competition now!
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And does that say you can play the WBC AS AN ACTUAL TEAM?!?!?!? SDS, watch out
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And does that say you can play the WBC AS AN ACTUAL TEAM?!?!?!? SDS, watch out
yes an actual full WBC mode not behind a card mode. And English Translation too!
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only issue is it appears the game won’t be available on Xbox, at least right away
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only issue is it appears the game won’t be available on Xbox, at least right away
yes PS5 and PC
at least PC players will finally have a baseball game
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If this is the same game that was made free on PS5 recently, seemed like a demo to me, I wouldn't get too excited. I messed around with for about five minutes. Felt cartoony to me.
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If this is the same game that was made free on PS5 recently, seemed like a demo to me, I wouldn't get too excited. I messed around with for about five minutes. Felt cartoony to me.
it's the full version that's coming out.
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at least PC players will finally have a baseball game
Well Backyard Baseball 2026 will be on PC. So another game to add to the list.
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@theBlindRhino_PSN, you should mess around with it some more.
It has an old-school, Wii-like menu and music to match that feels a bit odd, at first, but that hides a pretty [censored] good baseball simulation. The free game doesn't look as good as its Japanese counterpart because the players in it are all fictional, created models without any face-mapping, and it appears somewhat hastily constructed; but it led me to order the 2024-2025 Japanese version and the pitcher/batter screens look amazing. Not as graphically polished as The Show when the ball is in play, but MLBTS relies on canned animations that look smooth, and really just limit control to the point that you may as well be playing Dragon's Lair.
The physics engine puts MLBTS to shame, making it a much better baseball simulation, and if you played it for a few hours, I think you'd start to see just how many things SDS gets wrong. The free game gives you a taste, but it plays even better when you try the import version because the players have better attribute rankings (the free version starts you with a selection of pretty weak players), speeding things up and allowing for more variation without destroying gameplay like high ranked cards do in DD.
I don't know how online H2H play will be, but for anyone who enjoys a franchise-like mode (Konami's Season mode is amazing), especially, I think this will be a great alternative to what SDS is trying to pass off as baseball.
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I played the PS4 version four or 5 years ago on the PS4 and it is in my eyes better than the show. Granted that version was Japanese only. That was a hard thing. Is you to translate every every screen
