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MLB: The Show gets extra innings on PS3

By Tim Surette, GameSpotPosted Dec 12, 2006 10:46 am PT

Next edition of Sony's baseball game announced for the PS3, PS2, PSP; online league play among the key new features.

Major League Baseball's Winter Meetings have just wrapped up, with several baseball players signing deals for outrageous amounts of money to play with new teams or stay with their previous squads.

Sony made its own baseball deal recently, announcing that it was bringing the MLB: The Show series back for extra innings. MLB 07: The Show was announced today for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable.

MLB 07: The Show adds online league play, lets gamers compete in online leagues of up to 30 teams (Sony did not specify which platforms this feature would be available for). Baseball fans can also tinker with the game's sliders and upload them to servers for others to try out.

The series' pitching has been given the most changes in the upcoming edition of the franchise. Catchers will recommend pitches based on hitters' tendencies, or players can shake off the backstop and simply throw what they want. Like the sport it emulates, MLB 07 will also feature finicky umpires, with their own strike zones and tendencies.

The atmosphere of baseball is being focused on in the PS3 version, with the addition of crowd animations, including tussles for foul balls, the seventh inning stretch, and the wave. Sony is also adding correct grips and arm angles for different pitch types for true students of the game.

MLB 07: The Show has not yet been rated or priced and will be available in spring 2007.

67 Comments

  • squizm0re

    Posted Jan 14, 2007 8:28 pm PT

    @melo

    "In 2005, in response to EA Sports' exclusive license with the National Football League and ESPN prohibiting any NFL 2K games for the foreseeable future, Take-Two Interactive signed an exclusive third-party licensing contract with Major League Baseball (MLB), MLBPA and MLBAM to produce MLB games. The agreement, which runs from Spring 2006 to 2012, allows for the console manufacturers Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to produce MLB titles for their respective platforms, but bars third party developers such as EA Sports from continuing or developing their own MLB games."

    Basically 2k bought the cross platform liscense, which is why this game is only coming out on sony consoles. Sony can only develop a baseball game for sony platforms. Microsoft can develop a baseball game for their platforms and so on. It was basically done to C*ck block EA Games after they nabbed the NFL license.

  • melo_211

    Posted Jan 12, 2007 6:00 pm PT

    Can someone answer me this? How does Sony make a MLB baseball game when 2K bought the baseball license??

  • RaiKageRyu

    Posted Jan 9, 2007 7:01 pm PT

    At least Sony knows how to make a good baseball game. Now, if only they can get thier basketball game together...

  • Odium_Humanis

    Posted Jan 8, 2007 11:32 am PT

    I started playing baseball games again with EA's MVP 2003 (rest in peace, that was a good series), but I dug 'The Show' 06 a lot. Online league play is something I've looked for in ALL SPORTS GAMES for years, and when Sega's NFL 2k5 had it, I thought a new day was dawning, but EA did it's thing with the NFL and the exclusivity garbage. Anyway, I'm all over this game and I suspect that it will make me very happy. For the guy that said that this might be his first baseball game ever...Well, it baseball sim. Kinda like the baseball madden in that you don't just pick it up and win 40-0. So if you are like, one of those guys that doesn't play Madden because it left the casual player behind years ago, you might wanna rent it first.

  • FilthyYamBag

    Posted Dec 21, 2006 1:03 pm PT

    sounds kickass, maybe i'll buy my first baseball game ever

    Go Red Sox

  • yanksfanman319

    Posted Dec 19, 2006 9:39 am PT

    I would love to get this game..but I just sold my ps2 a few months ago to get money towards the 360. Now I have the 360. It sucks that our baseball game sucks..atleast we have that guy from MVP coming over..hopefully he'll make things better..but whoever has a ps2 or ps3 DEF. get this game..I loved 06: The Show when I had my ps2..and the career in this sounds 10x better

  • GameFreak34

    Posted Dec 17, 2006 7:26 pm PT

    Yeah... it is kinda sad EA Sports ended its contract with the MLB to make baseball games. I loved MVP Baseball 2005, best baseball game i have ever played. The news about MLB 07 The Show sounds great with all the new features. I hope this series turns out to be good just like MVP. Anyways I'll probably get it over MLB 2K7...

  • ollieluc

    Posted Dec 14, 2006 4:14 pm PT

    "I still miss MVP Baseball and ESPN NFL for that matter. This games looks good and will be the first game I will get since MVP Baseball 2005. I really want to play as Matuzaka"

    by first game I meant first baseball game

  • ollieluc

    Posted Dec 14, 2006 3:22 pm PT

    I still miss MVP Baseball and ESPN NFL for that matter. This games looks good and will be the first game I will get since MVP Baseball 2005. I really want to play as Matuzaka

  • theKSMM

    Posted Dec 14, 2006 6:19 am PT

    Being able to have leagues of mixed platforms (i.e. PS3 + PS2 + PSP all in the same online league) would be tight.

  • GameFreak34

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 4:54 pm PT

    this is a game im actually looking forward to, better yet, it's coming out in the spring of next year, when ill get the PS3...

  • diablos101

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 10:36 am PT

    England we call it rounders i think

  • LordAndrew

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 9:19 am PT

    The PS2 version might have that, majestikk

  • Paul_TheGreat

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 9:03 am PT

    The best baseball game ever.

  • KingofTrolls

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 8:56 am PT

    Booooooooo I don't care.

  • anamnawshad

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 8:35 am PT

    Meh I like Brian Lara Cricket more.....

  • hotdork70minus1

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 7:08 am PT

    baseball is ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................oh crap i fell asleep there for a second.

  • Bathyj

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 6:04 am PT

    As an Aussie, I find baseball really boring (Cricket is the greatest sport of all, you won't like it immediately but give it a go, you'll thank me) but I"ve always thought it could make a good computer game. Hopefully the controls will be good and the game will have a nice TV like presentation.

  • NinjaShadows

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 5:54 am PT

    meh back to gears of war for me

  • abdullrahman

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 4:25 am PT

    Gamer46
    xbox360 is the garbage not ps3 .
    and the game will be great

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