MLB The Show 21 PS5 And Xbox Box Art Leaked, Confirming Game Will Go Multiplatform This Year

From PSU: "The MLB The Show 21 PS5 box art has been leaked by ANerdyDad on Instagram, who is a reliable leaker, revealing other box art for games in the past.

The box art stars Fernando Tatis Jr. from the San Diego Padres and takes the approach for a more grungy arty look, compared to the cinematic covers we have seen in the past. On top of the PS5 Box Art, we also get a look at the Xbox version of the cover, which will feature the San Diego Studio logo and the PlayStation Studios logo."

[SullysCigar]

Wow - this has been known for AGES! Get with the program psu.com lol

[Jin_Sakai]

Exactly. Sony had to go multiplatform with the game or lose the MLB license.

[mkis007]

This is just what everyone is guessing. There is no confirmation of this.

[Jin_Sakai]

“This is just what everyone is guessing. There is no confirmation of this.”

Sounds to me like the extended partnership required going multiplatform.

“MLB, MLBPA, Sony extend video game partnership”

“In addition, the historic expansion of the long-standing partnerships will bring MLB The Show, for the first time ever, to additional console platforms beyond PlayStation platforms as early as 2021. Complete details will be announced at a later date.“

https://www.mlb.com/news/ml...

[PigPen]

$70 dollars, they can keep it. Microsoft gaming division will be looking to see how many of its fans will buy so they can charge that too. Sony doing that wanting Microsoft to do that so its fans won't be standing idly around looking stupid. A baseball game, really?

[agnosticgamer]

@Jin_Sakai

Doubt that had anything to do with it at all unless you have a link to prove otherwise. Sports titles only have a limited fanbase so they need to increase the number of fans it's available to. They needed to increase the profits. 3rd parties could have made a licensed baseball game for all consoles and the only baseball game made was the crappy RBI series. So to increase sales it's a no brainer to extend this to other systems to maximize profits where no competing game is out for.

[ShadowWolf712]

@agnosticgamer While MLB hasn't gone the route of the NFL and given away EXCLUSIVE licensing for their league's sport... MLB The Show IS the only "official" game sanctioned by MLB and allowed to carry their name in the title. It's the BRANDED MLB game. Sony could, in theory, keep making baseball games had they lost the license, just call it "The Show" and drop the MLB, but they would also lose the sweet cross-promotion and perks that license deal came with.

The fact that the multiplatform announcement came the same day and the announcement that the new deal was inked VERY heavily implies that it was indeed part of the deal. Especially since The Show is actually a huge seller on the PS platform and they were making a lot of bank from their own ecosystem alone.

[potatoseal]

It was already confirmed it was going multiplat ages ago and I'm kind of glad this one is. I don't play this game, but Baseball is a much loved sport.

Kind of strange in a way to see the Playstation Studios logo on an Xbox cover lol.

[SullysCigar]

"I don't play this game, but Baseball is a much loved sport."

Same, the more, the merrier.

[crazyCoconuts]

Would be funny if they had the whole Playstation Studios intro play at the booting of the game, with the montage of games they show in there.

[neutralgamer1992]

Haha

[DJStotty]

Seeing as though san diego studios are the developers, i would be shocked if they did not play the dev/publishers logo at the start.

[agnosticgamer]

@CrazyCoconuts

I don't know I'm not much of a Minecraft Dungeons fan but I am sure that plays the Xbox Game Studios intro when playing on Playstation and Nintendo Switch. It's not like it's a "burn" why change the intro per different console it's on?

[Sitdown]

So we have knew the exact year it was going multi, as well as the cover art?

[potatoseal]

Yes we knew the exact year and no, obviously we had no idea what the cover-art was going to be. Use your head.

[Sitdown]

We did not know the exact year, the press release said "as early as". And since we didn't know the cover art, this article is appropriate.

[DJStotty]

"Kind of strange in a way to see the Playstation Studios logo on an Xbox cover lol."

Just the same as seeing Mojang on the PS4 Minecraft cover ain't it?

[potatoseal]

No. LOL. It's nowhere near the same hahaha

[DJStotty]

Why is it not the same?

Mojang is a studio of Microsoft (Xbox Game Studios), with their logo on the box
San diego studios/Playstation studios are studios of Sony (SIE), with their logo on the box (PlayStation Studios is a newly formed umbrella brand for its 1st party titles)

sounds the same to me.

[SonyStyled]

@ DJStotty, Depends on how one looks at it. I mean Minecraft was already multiplatform before the MS purchase Mojang, so my hard copy like many others doesn’t display the Xbox game studios logo on the box art, but I haven’t booted the game up in ages so for all I know the boot up screen of Minecraft could now show the Xbox logo on startup via game patch update.
But for MLB, this is flat out a PlayStation first part studio developing and PS publishing a game at launch on Xbox, which would be a first for both Xbox and PS studios with multiplatform development and publishing.
I think that’s what to OP was getting at

[masterfox]

sadly going third party on this new generation of consoles, the Xbox S will affect all other versions due to its low specs and parity , this is going to be a nuisance for all third party games and for the developers, not to mention Xbox exclusive will be affected as well if they have any of course.

[crazyCoconuts]

Yes, they will have to change to game to softball to make it run on the Xbox platforms

[Sonyslave3]

What about the ps4 lol it weaker then xbox series s 😄

[spicelicka]

As if MLB: The Show every pushed graphics to their extreme lol. That major difference is that Series S won't support 4k native and in some cases may have a lower frame rate. How do you think PC games scale for top of the line and medium hardware? It remains to be seen of course but there sure isn't any proof of what you're saying. Why would they manufacture a Series X if they expect to hold back games?

https://www.theverge.com/20...

[--Onilink--]

Yeah, its not like 3rd party devs ever had to develop for PCs with even lower requirements than whats on the Series S....

I dont get this whole nonsense scenario of treating it like its something new, practically every 3rd Party dev releases on PC which means they already had to scale a lot, MS devs also release everything on PC so it also applies to them.

[NeoGamer232]

That is kind of dumb.

There is always a lower performing console. Whether it be PS4 outperforming XBO or whatever.

If it isn't the fastest console then it is holding the fastest console back.

[Neonridr]

It'll be weird to see this game on Xbox.

[TheColbertinator]

I welcome it. For years we didn't have a decent baseball game on the Xbox and if anything The Show does so many things right for baseball simulation.

[Neonridr]

oh don't get me wrong, I don't mind. Heck it's more people to enjoy the game. Xbox does well in North America where Baseball is very popular. This gives them a game to own for sure.

[PlayStation47]

Hey now Microsoft Xbox has finally got some quality exclusive. I’ll take this a step further. This game will be on store shelves, probably by the end of March. This will make currently xbox best exclusive game that’s out for Xbox series X.

[Sunny_D]

"quality exclusive"

You know this game is multiplatform right?

[VersusDMC]

This situation makes me hopefully that the Bethesda Indiana Jones game comes out on PS5. Because Lucasarts might require the game to be multiplatform.

[Ausbo]

This will have no effect on whether Indiana Jones is exclusive or not

[VersusDMC]

It shows that a license holder can make the developer make a game playable on a competing platform. It show that it may be possible that Indiana Jones might be multiplatform.

[addictedtochaos]

Shame it doesn’t appear to be headed to Switch as well.

[Elda]

It's weird to see a first-party Sony studio logo on a game for XBOX. I'm guessing Sony & MLB reaps the most money-wise from the sales of the game.

[CBaoth]

Sony gets the lion's share - 70% as they are both developer and publisher. MS gets 30% as the platform holder. MLB probably gets royalties depending on total sales but the deal itself was negotiated long ago. They get licensing fees.

As for going multi-plat, great news. This is probably the only sports IP where the devs don't phone in annualized roster updates & charge $60. I AM curious about the pricing. Does Sony charge $70 though?

[JackBNimble]

No but they load the game with MT'S so you need to basically buy your team to be competitive online.

[DEEHULK88]

Old news. Guys are about a year late. This was announced Nov or Dec of 2019

[Sitdown]

So they announced the athlete in November/December with a picture of the box art?

[DEEHULK88]

"Confiming that it will go multiplatform this year"<<<<< < Was already confirmed in 2019 smrtas

[Profchaos]

I really want to know how this will actually turn out on Xbox it's Sony's first Xbox game as far as I know.

It'll be an interesting DF video imagine if aspects turn out better on Xbox.

[UltimateRacer]

This is well known, it’s a good thing in my opinion as it’s the best Baseball game you’ll ever play and San Diego do an excellent job on it.

[autobotdan]

History has been made lol

[Sitdown]

Haha, some of you all are trying so hard to downplay this. When pictures started floating about the ps5, did you all run in and say we already knew it was coming out? No. This is about the potential evidence of it actually going down. Previously it was just words, now we get to see it really unfolding through the box art.

[BlaqMagiq1]

Uh it was literally confirmed last year it was going multiplat. There were posts about it from Xbox and Nintendo.

[Sitdown]

Did we get the artwork last year as well?

[oof46]

“Previously it was just words...”

Yeah, words confirming it was coming to other platforms. Geeez...

[Sitdown]

So when a company confirms that a game is coming, you don't pay attention to when actually get artwork or images concerning it? Stop, the downplay continues.

[BlaqMagiq1]

It doesn't matter. Xbox and Nintendo posted about MLB The Show a long time ago. It was CONFIRMED it was going multiplat. No images are needed to confirm something that's already confirmed. There's no downplay. You were just too lazy to do any research.

[Sitdown]

I'm not sure if you are lazy, can't read or have reading comprehension concerns. During the original press release from December of 2019, it said, "as early as 2021". That CONFIRMED that it was coming, but we still didn't know for sure what year. This article is saying we have confirmation that it indeed will be 2021. In addition, you reference both Microsoft and Nintendo made a tweet, well how come at this time there is no mention of a Nintendo version? Since you have done the research, you would know that the press release said it would go to additional console platforms beyond Playstation platforms, but it did not CONFIRM which systems. This could simply mean Xbox One X, and Xbox Series editions along with the Playstation lineup. This may or may not include PC. This may or may not include Nintendo.

[BlaqMagiq1]

"I'm not sure if you are lazy, can't read or have reading comprehension concerns. During the original press release from December of 2019, it said, "as early as 2021". That CONFIRMED that it was coming, but we still didn't know for sure what year."

You LITERALLY just made my point. Regardless of what year it was coming it was STILL going to be multiplat whether it was 2021 or another year. IT. DOESN'T. MATTER. It is still multiplat. End of story. You say I have reading comprehension problems yet you still couldn't comprehend that single point I just made.

"This article is saying we have confirmation that it indeed will be 2021. In addition, you reference both Microsoft and Nintendo made a tweet, well how come at this time there is no mention of a Nintendo version? Since you have done the research, you would know that the press release said it would go to additional console platforms beyond Playstation platforms, but it did not CONFIRM which systems. This could simply mean Xbox One X, and Xbox Series editions along with the Playstation lineup. This may or may not include PC. This may or may not include Nintendo."

Umm ok and? That doesn't change the fact that it's going to be playable OUTSIDE OF PLAYSTATION. Why is not on Nintendo or PC? I don't know but they can if they want to whether it be this year or the next. But it is on Xbox, which means it is multiplat. If it was never going to happen, Xbox and Nintendo would never have tweeted about it at all. And when it shows up on Switch and PC it will be no different. There was no mystery or downplay about it. It was literally a matter of WHEN.

[Sitdown]

Again, we didn't know what year it was going to show and on what console. The article confirms it will happen this year and include Xbox. You struggle with comprehension, as you were trying to reply to my post. We knew the general, this article is confirming the specifics. You are the one wrongly using a single point to try and rebuttal my post.

[BlaqMagiq1]

So you still couldn't understand a very simple point I made and are just using the "struggle with comprehension" as an argument. Gotcha. Not surprising tho. It was clear from your original post you didn't get it to begin with.

[Sitdown]

Yes, it was clear you were clueless in trying to respond to my post. Thanks for acknowledging that. Have a good one.

[BlaqMagiq1]

You too. Thanks for confirming your low IQ.

[Psychotica]

I hope it comes to PC too..

[Bathyj]

I'm glad Xbox is getting a good game, even if Sony did have to make it.

I'm kidding guys, geeze relax. It's just video games.

[Nd1vhu]

So not a single good game on Xbox right now? Multiplatform or otherwise? Wow!

[SonyStyled]

The OP mentioned he was joking, said “he’s kidding, relax guys.” No need to have a tickled bum over it

And yes, this game is multiplatform, or “otherwise”

[Orchard]

Lets hope PS5 is getting good Zenimax games in return ;)

[SmokinAces]

Lets hope xbox is getting a good Zenimax game to begin with.

[DJStotty]

Sony soon to be a 3rd party publisher on Xbox lmao.

[frostypants]

This is a series that needs a serious refresh. It has felt the same every year since the PS3 days.

[Orchard]

Like every sports game... sadly.

[Abnor_Mal]

Interesting that the game will be using cross play, which I guess is good. I wonder how will the games compare on each platform, will the game look and perform better on one versus the other.

If people want to play the game on Xbox Series then they will have to cough up seventy dollars as the game does not seem to be going to gamepass day one or any day after I would wager.

[Atticus_finch]

Word to the wise. Never buy sport games at full price.

[Orchard]

Game is trash now that it isn't PlayStation exclusive.

/s

[boing1]

I wonder on which console it will work best.

[Sitdown]

Why would it not be the PS5, and that's before even considering what they could do with the controller.

[SonyStyled]

My guess is they will be identical, though it’s the studios first shot outside of PS3/Vita/PS4 development. There might be a slight challenge for reaching out to other platforms, but it’s not like all of SD Studio employs people who have exclusively worked game development on PS. There’s likely plenty employees of SD who have developed on XBox. I’d expect little to no difference between PS and XB versions of the game

[Petebloodyonion]

So now the game will suck since it will be played by ppl on the other platform?
Honestly, It always baffle me to see ppl sad because other ppl can experience the same game they are playing without losing ant benefits.

[Donnie81]

Love mlb the show.

[SmokinAces]

Confirming what was already confirmed, stellar reporting there.

[InUrFoxHole]

Can guarantee a lot of the comments will be... This is old or we knew about this already...