Xbox Had to Provide Sony with Pre-Release Xbox Series X|S Consoles for MLB The Show 21 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 September 2021 / 2,575 Views
MLB The Show is a PlayStation developed franchise that has historically been exclusive to PlayStation consoles. However, MLB made the decision for MLB The Show 21 to not only launch on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, but also on the Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One. It was also available on Xbox Game Pass for Console and Cloud at launch.
The head of game creator experience and ecosystem at Xbox Sarah Bond speaking with Axios said that Microsoft had to trust Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X|S consoles in order to get the game running on the next-generation consoles.
"It was a real, real sign of industry trust," said Bond on providing Sony with Xbox Series X|S consoles before the console launched.
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Bond added that while working with the RBI Baseball franchise with MLB that "The Show always came up. We always said, 'We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'"
MLB The Show 21 is available now on the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One.
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Obviously. Mojang probably has PS4 and PS5 dev kits for Minecraft projects.
Minecraft was on PS before MS acquired it. A contract was probably penned to have the game on PS consoles. Well, I take that back...I don't wanna start pulling stuff outta my ass. The first sentence is definitely true though.
Minecraft isn’t available natively on PS5
Wow Sony getting the Trojan horse and it's actually a gift not a trap haha
Maybe thats the real reason why MLB came to the X/S consoles, so they can get first hand dev kits to tweak the PS5.
Is there enough time to do any significant tweaks on PS5 by the time they received new Xbox hardware?
They did clock up the GPU from 9tf to 10tf. But who knows. You can tweak little things, doesn't always have to be major modification.
citation for that?
Why else? The system was going to launch with a 9tf gpu. Also both the PS4 and XB1 were going to launch with 4gigs of ram at one stage.
With all due respect, I really don't want to offend... but this is nonsense and you can't prove it.
You honestly think these companies don't spy on each other?
It gave Sony an opportunity to learn its going to be another gen of similar gaming capabilities.
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