DIVIDING YOUR ATTENTION IS NEVER A GOOD THING
Somehow, Major League Baseball got under PlayStation's skin and threatened them forcing PlayStation to make a move they NEVER would've made in the past, and it's a move that could ultimately cost them the PlayStation brand. We want to give them the benefit of the doubt they can be grown men and tell the truth but you never know in todaysDIVIDING YOUR ATTENTION IS NEVER A GOOD THING
Somehow, Major League Baseball got under PlayStation's skin and threatened them forcing PlayStation to make a move they NEVER would've made in the past, and it's a move that could ultimately cost them the PlayStation brand. We want to give them the benefit of the doubt they can be grown men and tell the truth but you never know in todays world. When the 10 Commandments were given, there was a reason "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness" was given, because people some four-thousand years later still can't seem to understand the damage a little "white lie" can do not only to ones self, but to those around them so hopefully, PlayStation can be honest and transparent in their communication to the people that supply their paychecks so they can buy their third house.
Somehow, Major League Baseball (MLB from here on out) were able to talk the PlayStation brand into threatening their own console by taking The Show to competing platforms and they let another company that doesn't know anything about video games or the video game business tell them how to run THEIR business. PlayStation has been acting very conservatively (financialwise) over the past few years since new CEO Jim Ryan took over former CEO Shawn Laydens roll, does that mean PlayStation is hurting financially so much that they'd agree to do the unthinkable to port their bread and butter to not a company that isn't there's, but a company that offers their game for free under the guise that it'll help better promote the game, sure, for Xbox. The problem with it is that one of PlayStation's top developers is essentially a third-party developer now. Sony will front the bill 100%, MLB will pay nothing, MLB will collect royalties, Microsoft will pay pocket change to have the game on their console, and Xbox will put up PlayStation's work for free every year to frustrate PlayStation's fanbase every year to win over ball players knowing that PlayStation can't afford to give away the game they paid for every year to sink more in the hole.
My point with this is the same with any third-party development company, when you have to divide your teams over multiple platforms, you lose quality because you can't just focus on just one. When quality suffers, the fun of the game suffers. So, San Diego Studio now gets to develop one game for: Xbox One, Xbox Series S and X, PS4, PS4 Pro, and PS5. We're still waiting to see if Nintendo will see PlayStation's game will become Switch and potentially Switch Pro. That's stretching your team thin for a little bit of money and that's what happened this year and from here on out, rather than PlayStation having the spine to put their foot down and say "Who are you to tell us how to run our business. We're good at what we do and we'll walk and then you'll have no game!"
I was really looking forward to MLB The Show this year on a new console with a fresh new take. It's usually the same for hockey games every year from me as well but, this year felt a lot like the first NHL that released on PS4, no Season Mode.
Season Mode is laid out the way it is for a reason. You start out learning the controls and getting a feel for the game and progressively get better and by Playoffs and World Series, you've got a good chance. But March for October "MFO" this year is sad. If you're one of the underdog teams, you really suffer. You play through a weird sort of season where you don't control your wins or losses, you're placed into impossible situations and the game then loves to watch you fail and the commentators will talk you up and embarass you and make you feel like a sad sack. The better you do, the better your teams morale, but the worse you do, the game makes you feel like turning a gun on yourself as worthless. I mean, I don't expect it to hold my hand or anything, you win some you lose some but, when you're working hard with a low rated team to score a run and with ease the game comes back and humiliates you, this game is supposed to be for gamers new to The Show altogether or maybe to March to October. I don't buy sports games because of incremental upgrades every year but, this seemed like a good time to jump in but, the modes have been frustrating, embarassing, and I haven't played a game in a long time that really makes you feel unimportant or worthless, and the game really rubs it in. All I wanted was a Season Mode and instead what I got, was the Middle School yard, I really wanted something better and expected better. Maybe having to worry about developing for Xbox took their focus and time away from developing a game for everyone, this was supposed to be the introduction of The Show, PlayStation style, to Xbox fans who haven't play this before, and somehow, even the Xbox version is scoring higher than the PlayStation version. Maybe when you don't have to pay anything for the experience are you expectations really low. Conservative PlayStation? Maybe not anymore. Too bad.......… Expand
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