Secondary Position in RTTS The Show 26
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Nothing is stopping another company from licensing the MLB brand from MLB. At one time MLBTS, EA, and 2K sports had MLB games eall at the same time.
EA had the smoothest gameplay on multi platform of all 3 at the time, it had basic features but best graphics at the time. EA was the first to drop MLB licensing because they had exclusive rights to NFL for Madden and it was starting to get real expensive to keep NFL.
2K made a decent game also like EA was multi platform it had some glitches but really had some cool stuff. When it would rain instead of spending the entire game listening to announcers complain about umpires calling it and how it would affect pitchers they actually called a delay and a crew rolled tge tarp on the field. 2K was a glitchy but no worse than MLBTS. Career mode in that game was just like RTTS , it even had secondary positions. 2 way players were not yet available. I’m not saying it was a better game but it did have some great ideas.
Back then MLBTS was only available on PSP, Vita, PS2, PS3 I am not sure why 2K dropped but I wish they would come back. SDS has been complacent for years now not listening to customers because they just don’t have any competition.
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That's exactly right. It was never MLB that worked with SDS to create a sole baseball video game. In fact, the only case I am aware of where a major sports league deliberately worked to create a monopoly was with the NFL and EA Sports and the Madden title. The NFL extracted a truly monumental scale of money for that exclusive contract.
In response, it seems the other rather limited number of software companies decided on their own to specialize by choosing one or perhaps two major sports to focus on and self-eliminating all others. For the longest period of time, these companies sought to release a title for all the major sports.
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They kind of did make it exclusive for now. MLB requires the game to be multi-platform AND old gen tech. I can’t imagine EA or 2K or anyone else would want to invest all the man hours into using tech that’s old and slowly going away. Maybe once MLB allows next gen only they’ll want to take a crack at it, but not going to happen until then.
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No, the only reason it’s required is because no other company has stepped forward to make a game with the MLB license. SDS got a huge discount to use tge licensing for making it multi platform since it was only company currently willing to create a game.
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They kind of did make it exclusive for now. MLB requires the game to be multi-platform AND old gen tech. I can’t imagine EA or 2K or anyone else would want to invest all the man hours into using tech that’s old and slowly going away. Maybe once MLB allows next gen only they’ll want to take a crack at it, but not going to happen until then.
Last year we were giving the excuse that the switch 1 was a reason for holding back on some features and i think graphics. So they could only do so much because of that.
