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Onyxmeth said:

More and more people are not buying the Show instead of MLB 2K series. Baseball videogames as a whole are declining in sales.

MLB 06 sales:

PS2: .75M
PSP: .33M 

MLB 07 sales:

PS3: .27M
PS2: .76M
PSP: .28M

Total: 1.31M

MLB 08 sales:

PS3: .64M
PS2: .35M
PSP: .33M

Total: 1.32M

MLB 09 sales:

PS3: .59M
PS2: .16M
PSP: .24M

Total: .99M

This goes along with the MLB 2K series also declining in sales, along with The Bigs 2 selling less than the original, and along with the cancellation of MLB Power Pros. It's baseball itself that is becoming unpopular in videogame form. The Show hasn't had any real growth as a series since the original, regardless of it's quality climbing, and regardless of the last installment having a very healthy advertising budget on sports networks like ESPN and male oriented channels like SPIKE. It's either been stagnant or declined in sales on all of it's three platforms since MLB 06: The Show.

I've noticed, and it's a shame, but I'm curious to see what the Slim might do for The Show (with the increased userbase).



Onyxmeth said:

More and more people are not buying the Show instead of MLB 2K series. Baseball videogames as a whole are declining in sales.

MLB 06 sales:

PS2: .75M
PSP: .33M 

MLB 07 sales:

PS3: .27M
PS2: .76M
PSP: .28M

Total: 1.31M

MLB 08 sales:

PS3: .64M
PS2: .35M
PSP: .33M

Total: 1.32M

MLB 09 sales:

PS3: .59M
PS2: .16M
PSP: .24M

Total: .99M

This goes along with the MLB 2K series also declining in sales, along with The Bigs 2 selling less than the original, and along with the cancellation of MLB Power Pros. It's baseball itself that is becoming unpopular in videogame form. The Show hasn't had any real growth as a series since the original, regardless of it's quality climbing, and regardless of the last installment having a very healthy advertising budget on sports networks like ESPN and male oriented channels like SPIKE. It's either been stagnant or declined in sales on all of it's three platforms since MLB 06: The Show.

Baseball is just getting more unpopular in general I think.  What brought people back from the strike that devestated baseball was basically the steroid era... and now people are finding out that well... it was the steroid era.

Still, Power Pros could of did well damn it.  Better then baseball blast anyway.  Man that pisses me off... Power Pros is the type of game people who don't even like sports games would like just due to the RPG create a character modes.



baseball isn't losing popularity. at least i doubt it. maybe it's just the dip in between yearly releases..



i agree big time

i loved 2k back in the day

i watched a preview of the new 2k game, everything they listed was in the game ten years ago

sad really, its not like i dont like it, just like i already played the shit out of it

last baseball game i bought was powerpros



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