There is no good baseball video game for Xbox?

[GwinnettNole]

So Microsoft has deals to ensure the ever popular FIFA and NBA2k video games are on Xbox— yet there is no good baseball game on the platform? Why?

From what I’m reading The Show is an incredible baseball game but is owned by Sony which leads to PS4 only. Anyone else find it strange there is no XBox baseball game similar to the quality of FIFA or NBA2K? Thoughts?

 

[seminole97]

Apparently the Universe is looking out for you:

https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/20/17142750/rbi-baseball-18-release-date-ps4-xbox-one-switch-mobile

 

[CDND]

Strange? Yes and no. Disappointing yes but strange no. First off RBI is garbage. The last good RBI game was still cartoony and like 20+ years old. These new ones are horrible. Basically it's simple supply and demand. Baseball games on consoles lost their luster and were overtaken completely by Madden and FIFA. NBA games too sell better. Once overall baseball games declined Sony swooped in and got the only official MLB license deal and they have one of their own houses make the game. Gives them a nice carrot over Msoft. Personally I'm an XBOX guy and would like a baseball game, but not enough where it sways me system wise.

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[GwinnettNole]

Strange? Yes and no. Disappointing yes but strange no. First off RBI is garbage. The last good RBI game was still cartoony and like 20+ years old. These new ones are horrible. Basically it's simple supply and demand. Baseball games on consoles lost their luster and were overtaken completely by Madden and FIFA. NBA games too sell better. Once overall baseball games declined Sony swooped in and got the only official MLB license deal and they have one of their own houses make the game. Gives them a nice carrot over Msoft. Personally I'm an XBOX guy and would like a baseball game, but not enough where it sways me system wise.

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Did you think the Y2K series for MLB was any good? I always thought the graphics were really good but the pitching in our latest version (2k13?) was weird.

The subreddit I was reading was not a fan of R.B.I. either...

 

[amicusnole]

This is correct. Went with a PS4 for my son for this reason. The Show is a good game. RBI Baseball on Xbox sucks.

 

[Noleguy06]

Why I have both an XBox and PS4.

 

[nynole1]

One more reason I chose PS4 over Xbox.

 

[dmm5157]

Why I have both an XBox and PS4.

Bingo. They aren't that expensive, I have both as well. Used to be more of an XBOX fan with the 360 over PS3, but lately the PS4 is much more reliable and I don't have controller issues (randomly disconnects for me, probably an issues with my actual Xbox itself).

 

[fsu1jreed]

I always downloaded MLB2Kx and played them online, I thought they were really good games, but do know EA sports discontinued the series a few years ago which sucks because I loved that game.

 

[FSUTribe76]

Why I have both an XBox and PS4.

Is this where we brag about our setups? Sweet! I just sent my wife a layout for our systems as we just moved into a new place and are taking things out of storage so I don’t have to do any work to brag here other than explain what some of the systems are. Unlike a lot of gaming nerds I don’t like displaying boxes or rows of games so I have all of my gameboxes stored in big cardboard boxes and placed in a storage facility. Instead I keep all of my disks in folders Color coded to the systems and the cartridges are kept in purpose built storage holders. That way I only display hardware which looks pretty nice in a quasi museum setting rather than looking like a game store or library.

Living Room

Playstation 4 Pro
XBox One S
Nintendo Switch Dock
Nintendo Wii

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Bedroom

Second Nintendo Switch Dock
WiiU
NES Classic
SNES Classic
Playstation 3 Slim

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Nerd Room/Home Office

Large entertainment centre with 60” HD Plasma 8 spots

Xbox 360 Star Wars edition
Japanese Playstation 3 Ni No Kuni edition (but region free and uses HDMI so no need for special layout)
Nintendo GameCube/Super NT (both small and fit in one normal slot, Super NT plays SNES and SuperFamicom on actual SNES Hardware but has HDMI output so better than emulation)
Retron 5 (plays actual NES, SNES, Genesis, Mastersystem, Famicom, SuperFamicom, Gameboy, and gameboy Color carts and displays to HDMI but does it via emulation)
Panasonic 3DO for regular 3DO games
Philips CDI (to play Zelda and Mario cd games that were never released on a Nintendo system)
Alienware Alpha (with all systems emulated via Launchbox including MAME)
Original Xbox - Clear Green Halo Edition

Component Tower 5 spots (can have output go to either plasma or trinitron crt)

Sega Dreamcast Hello Kitty (but modded to Remove Japanese guts and replaced with American to play on American tvs)
Nintendo 64 - Blue and Yellow Pokemon Edition
PlayStation One modded with a clear shell
(Sega Saturn or Turbografx 16 to be placed here eventually)


Corner entertainment center 4 spots with Sony Trinitron tv (best consumer CRT on the market with natural scanlines and works with all lightguns unlike modern flatscreens)

Sega CDX and PlayStation 2 Slim (both small)
Nintendo 64
Goldstar 3DO (for lightgun 3DO games)
NES (for lightgun games)


Component Stack 4 spots with prison crt tv with clear case and see through components

Atari 7800
Magnavox Odyssey (1972 model)
Bentley Compuvision
Atari 2600 Sears version


Bookshelf

Handhelds and tabletops on display plus toys and other display items


Corner entertainment center with 4 spots with Batman themed crt tv plus Batman themed dvd which allows Japanese systems to play on American tv

Nintendo Famicom Twin (plays Famicom and Famicom Disk System games)
Epoch Cassette Supervision
Nintendo Color TV Games 6
Japanese Gamecube - Tales of Symphonia Edition


Component Stack 4 spots plus Vectrex on top

Systems not being used like regular XBox 360 and SNES


Component Stack 4 spots Plus Virtual Boy on top

Storage for cartridge cases

 

[cjnoles9399]

If the show is anything close to what it was on PS3 it's worth getting the 4 just for it. I played the crap out of 09 and 11 back in the day. Used to play all 162 games of a season and have a RTTS going. Then ran out of free time to enjoy the game.

 

[GwinnettNole]

I always downloaded MLB2Kx and played them online, I thought they were really good games, but do know EA sports discontinued the series a few years ago which sucks because I loved that game.

Anyone know why the MLB2k series was stopped? From what I read each years edition was worse than the previous years and eventually they just stopped making it and focused on FIFA, NBA2k, and Madden. As I said above the pitching in the 2013(?) version was weird/ had some quirks. But prior to that years version I thought it was really good.

 

[fsu1jreed]

As I said above the pitching in the 2013(?) version was weird/ had some quirks.

I have every year from 2K09 to 2K13 and I never noticed that, but I would just play online so maybe it was part of Franchise play.

 

[CDND]

All I want is a modern version of Earl Weaver Baseball. To this DAY the best computer baseball game of all time. God I loved playing classic HOFers and then watching Earl kick dirt

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[NoleGrad83]

If the show is anything close to what it was on PS3 it's worth getting the 4 just for it. I played the crap out of 09 and 11 back in the day. Used to play all 162 games of a season and have a RTTS going. Then ran out of free time to enjoy the game.

The Show is still the premiere baseball video game. In the process now of downloading '18 and have been playing '17 everyday since I got it a year ago.