https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/04/02/mlb-the-show-21-coming-to-xbox-game-pass-day-one/

Pretty unexpected and big news. Can make sense for Sony, they do load the game with micro transactions.

Bean me if old.

Well, that's... interesting.

Brilliant move to introduce the Xbox fanbase to a new franchise on the console.

Are the MLB games fun? I find baseball to be a snooze fest but I’ll give it a shot if it’s fun to play.

Imho no. If you aren’t into baseball, the game won’t sway you. I rarely buy The Show but when I do I typically sim through some franchise seasons trying to turn the Rangers into a contender and then I am done. 

Sony is telling journalists they had nothing to do with the GamePass deal and it was entirely MLB/Papa Phil. That’s extremely surprising imho. Sony must have given up a lot of control to be able to continue making MLB games.

Will this come to pc Gamepass? If so I'm pumped!

Nope, the game is only on consoles (Xbox and PlayStation), no PC version.  I am pretty disappointed, as my consoles are a PS5 and an Xbox One S.  I don't really want to pay full price just to try it out, so I'll probably end up playing this on the One S.

MLB are the publishers for the XB version. I believe this was known since the Show 21 was formally announced.

So naturally the decision isn't Sony's.

I don't think there's anything surprising that Sony had little to no say on the matter. 

Oh so you totally expected Sony to cuck out entirely and give up all control on one of their flagship franchises on a competing platform? To create a huge value discrepancy between the game on PS vs Xbox? A vast majority of people didn’t see that coming judging from the response to the GamePass news. Everyone said Sony surely had a say in the deal.