Makes me curious if it drags on and eventually turns into a players strike (I sure hope not) if the video game is able to get released at all? Is it even permissible in such a case? I truly would be interested to know

@GoozeFn_PSN said:

@Dolenz_PSN Very few people buy GTA for the campaign. Online might not roll out until closer to MLB release. While it might not seem like the same crowd, a ton of people are going to be on GTA. I’m not someone who plays a lot of different games. MLB is my main game every year. Every few years I’ll get Madden. I’ve played Diablo 4 and POE 2 sparingly over the last few years. I’m going to be all in on GTA. I think people are severely underestimating GTA. It’s going to break records.

It made billions in 24 hours two weeks before online was even really a thing. Don't most realize just how huge, how culturally significant, this game is and will keep being?

The most disruptive game I can think of was WoW, which killed many smaller MMORPGs but had little impact outside of the genre.

GTA Online has the urban sandbox niche basically to itself (I think APB still exists). Thats why it has those impressive numbers so many years later. I don't think GTA VI will impact the online gaming space much. Sure, games will take a bit of a hit but its not going to collapse any player bases, not even the GTA V online one.

I don’t know how you got that out of what he said.

@GoozeFn_PSN said:

@Pergo_MLBTS Again, you severely underestimate GTA. GTA 5 is 13 years old. They are still getting 4 million active players per day. That is about how many they had at launch PER MONTH. They peaked nearly 10 years after the game was released. This isn’t a game people play for a few months and put down. It’s probably the most anticipated game ever and they are going to be adding to it for a very long time.

I get ya, its going to be a huge game, no doubt about that. I just don't think it'll cut in to sales for The Show in a major way. Maybe people play it a little less with another option out there. I'll definitely be buying it. It just feels like every year there is some game that everyone predicts will "kill" this game, and it never really happens. But again, I do acknowledge GTA is bigger than all of those.

@GoozeFn_PSN said:

@Pergo_MLBTS Again, you severely underestimate GTA. GTA 5 is 13 years old. They are still getting 4 million active players per day. That is about how many than they had at launch PER MONTH. They peaked nearly 10 years after the game was released. This isn’t a game people play for a few months and put down. It’s probably the most anticipated game ever and they are going to be adding to it for a very long time.

Yea that game is going to do very well unless it is majorly broken and I don't see that happening. Hell, I might get it and if I'm playing when MLB comes out I might not change. Especially when you consider how much you have to play to keep up and still can't. I have around 250 hours and have zero collections done completely. Don't think that won't enter my mind along with the cheaters and the glitchers.

@Dolenz_PSN said:

GTA is releasing 4 to 5 months before MLB 27 so I don't see it having much impact. The people who just buy it for the story/campaign will be done with it by then and I am not sure the online GTA players were ever the same audience for MLB The Show.

The one thing I noticed in Sony's state of play this week was that there were a lot of games releasing in September trying to beat the GTA juggernaut to market.

Yeah I agree with this. I think there is enough time between the two that it won't have a major impact on MLB 27 (if there even is an MLB 27).

@Ditka06-_MLBTS said:

@TripleH-4481_PSN if I can easily see it why cant they???. Check into this person's profile and check him out! Is it really that hard?

You can't see who is selling specific cards can you? Am I missing something?

Or are we just assuming because it was 5 at the same price?

Yeah just imagine how many packs he had to open via the wbc glitch to do that. With the odds at 1:12,500 packs that comes out to being roughly 75,000 packs. Guy has probably been exploiting the glitch for months. No way those were pulled legit and even if bought low it still had to cost between 3 to 3.5 million stubs to try and flip.

The one thing I noticed in Sony's state of play this week was that there were a lot of games releasing in September trying to beat the GTA juggernaut to market.

I agree, I think '27 will be a tough year for gaming in general because of GTA. But SDS is, I won't say in trouble, more of a crossroads. They need to take a long look at what they're planning to release. There's so many aspects that need improving. Server stability, and pitch morphing online, the timing windows need resetting (they tweaked them this year and they're far too inconsistent), Stadium Creator needs updating, better tuning of CPU defense...all of that needs to be addressed if they want to succeed.