MLB The Show goes multiplatform

[Train wreck]

Barkley said:

pokoko said:

What's the leverage? Taking the license away? Why would they do that? Doesn't make any sense. Even if Sony said no to multiplatform, it's hard to see MLB cancelling The Show. I very much doubt there was any kind of "forcing" at all. 

They could have easily given the license to make MLB games to EA, 2K or someone like that.

Sony and MLB just made a deal to extend Sony's rights to have the license for the game, at the same time Sony announce the game is coming to other consoles. "Forced" might not be the right word. But it's obvious that MLB would be the party interested in getting the game out onto more platforms and during negotiations they got that wish.

Why would Take-Two (2k sports) want the license again after having the license exclusively for 6 years (2006-2012) and fully stopped making baseball games once that license was over?  Take-two making the exclusivity lapse tells me it was not a very profitable venture for them.  A simple wiki search shows the terms of their exclusivity.    Why didn't EA, who had a very good baseball franchise that ended in 2005 after 2K won their exclusivity, not start making baseball games after it ended?  Tells me that in EA's eyes, there is no money to be made making a baseball games.