Insidb said:
Mandalore76 said:
Yeah, one of the articles I was reading yesterday, when looking into the licensing, pointed out the irony of the NFL and MLB licensing situation. EA signed the exclusive deal with the NFL that made Madden the only officially licensed football game, forcing 2K to cancel it's NFL 2K series. In retaliation, 2K signed the 3rd Party licensing agreement with MLB that forced EA to end it's MLB MVP series. 2K at the time was considered the better football game developer, and EA was the better baseball game developer. So they actually both screwed each other out of what they did best. 2K realized this and discontinued their baseball series after MLB 2K13 and have stuck with having the premier NBA game and also the WWE as their tent-pole sports franchises. Meanwhile, EA continues to hold exclusive rights to the NFL, and also have FIFA, NHL, and NBA franchises. Therefore, they don't see the necessity to re-build a baseball game from the ground up at this point. In the end, EA unwittingly pushed themselves out of the baseball market the day they signed the football (NFL) contract.
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Do you play baseball games? The High Heat/MVP Baseball era was a true golden age.
I'm not a huge fan of the show, but maybe I just suck too much now lol.
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I used to a lot more. My friends are bigger baseball fans than I am, so they would bring their games over a lot back in the day. I did own a few of my own though over the years. The oldest would be Color Baseball on TRS-80 Color Computer 2! I did have High Heat 2004 on the original Xbox. And yes, that was a great baseball sim. I enjoyed that one a lot, and I do recall being very disappointed to find out that was the last one released in the series. Apparently, Microsoft bought the rights to the High Heat series when 3DO went bankrupt, but never actually did anything with the franchise.
I've never played any of The Show games. My last Play Station was PS2. I think I was onto the 360 before The Show started.
Last edited by Mandalore76 - on 07 December 2017
