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Mandalore76 on 05 December 2017
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Ka-pi96 said:
Insidb said:

Yeah, that's when they lost it: it's important to delineate the licenses, though.

You can have a console exclusive license or a multiplat license: EA had the latter, and then 2K had it.

Nintendo, MS, and Sony can all do console exclusives; the Show is made by Sony and can only be on Sony consoles.

I dunno about that...

Them still allowing MLB to sell the licence to other 3rd party companies is one thing, but I'd be quite surprised if they don't have a "can't sell the licence to Microsoft/Nintendo" part in their licence agreement.

 I don't know.  If that were true, I think there would be evidence of it somewhere.  Best I could find was Microsoft saying they wish someone would do it for them without actually saying they are barred from doing it themselves.                      

Ever since 2K Sports canceled its MLB 2K series in 2014, Xbox fans looking for a licensed MLB game have only had one option--the RBI Baseball series--while Sony fans continue to get that franchise and new installments in The Show series. It doesn't look like this will change anytime soon, but Xbox fans may be happy to learn Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has spoken up to say he would "love" to see another pro baseball game on Xbox someday.

"Some of us have been begging for a true MLB game for years and fallen on deaf ears," one person on Twitter wrote to Spencer recently. The executive dismissed the idea that Microsoft hasn't heard these suggestions and went on to say a third-party game would be something Microsoft would support.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-boss-would-love-to-see-new-xbox-mlb-game/1100-6435622/

As far as Nintendo goes, they haven't bothered with sports licensing on their own in a long while anyway.  They seem to prefer to market their own IP characters into the sports games they make.