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* ADayInTheLimelight: Beginning with ''MLB The Show 23'', a multi-year narrative mode called Storylines was inducted into the game, with the first year focusing on notable Negro League players, a section of baseball history rarely touched by baseball games beforehand. As with other successful "documentary" story mode games as seen in [=2K's=] ''NBA'' and ''WWE'' series, the mode sandwiches real-life documentary segments chronicling specific players (narrated by Negro League Museum president Bob Kendrick) followed by gameplay sequences replicating real-life scenarios that must be completed by the user to advance. In ''24'', new Negro League players are the focus of Storylines, as well as a separate Storyline mode focusing on Hall of Fame Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, taking the player through historic moments of his legendary career.
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** This trope is actually the reason Major League Baseball and Sony came to a lucrative agreement to bring the first-party series to other consoles beginning in 2021. For most of the TheNewTens, no one stepped up to create baseball sims in the wake of ''The Show'''s dominance, leaving MLB's own media team to develop an [=arcade/sim=] hybrid revival of ''RBI Baseball'' for Xbox- and Nintendo-starved fans, which was poorly received. MLB worked out a deal with Sony to bring their seminal sim elsewhere, since there's little financial point for MLB to have a well-regarded official baseball game if it's only exclusive to one console.
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** This trope is actually the reason Major League Baseball and Sony came to a lucrative agreement to bring the first-party series to other consoles beginning in 2021. For most of the TheNewTens, no one stepped up to create baseball sims in the wake of ''The Show'''s dominance, leaving MLB's own media team to develop an [=arcade/sim=] hybrid revival of ''RBI Baseball'' for Xbox- and Nintendo-starved fans, which was poorly received. MLB worked out a deal with Sony to bring their seminal sim elsewhere, since there's little financial point for MLB to have a well-regarded official baseball game if it's only exclusive to one console. This worked out fantastically for both parties, as since the move to multiplatform, the series has annually been among the best-selling games of the year.
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'''''MLB: The Show''''' is a UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball video game series produced by SIE San Diego Studio, a development team that is part of [[Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment SIE Worldwide Studios]]. The series debuted in 2006 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable (though it's technically a continuation of the older baseball sim series that began in 1997 on the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation; that phase of the show was simply titled ''MLB'' followed by the year). There has been a new release in the series every year since 2006, with '11 being the last [=PS2=] version. The series was on the [=PS3=] from '07 to '16, with '17's release being the first on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 exclusively.
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'''''MLB: The Show''''' is a UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball video game series produced by SIE San Diego Studio, a development team that is part of [[Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment SIE Worldwide Studios]]. The series debuted in 2006 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 Platform/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable Platform/PlayStationPortable (though it's technically a continuation of the older baseball sim series that began in 1997 on the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation; Platform/PlayStation; that phase of the show was simply titled ''MLB'' followed by the year). There has been a new release in the series every year since 2006, with '11 being the last [=PS2=] version. The series was on the [=PS3=] from '07 to '16, with '17's release being the first on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 Platform/PlayStation4 exclusively.
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On December 9, 2019, it was announced that ''MLB: The Show'' would be ending its [=PlayStation=] exclusivity as soon as 2021 (see LastOfItsKind below). [[https://blog.playstation.com/2021/02/01/introducing-our-mlb-the-show-21-cover-athlete-fernando-tatis-jr The first game post-exclusivity,]] ''MLB: The Show 21'', was released on [=PlayStation=] 4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS on April 20, 2021 with cross-platform multiplayer support. On January 31, 2022 it was announced that UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch has joined the line of platforms starting with ''MLB: The Show 22''.
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On December 9, 2019, it was announced that ''MLB: The Show'' would be ending its [=PlayStation=] exclusivity as soon as 2021 (see LastOfItsKind below). [[https://blog.playstation.com/2021/02/01/introducing-our-mlb-the-show-21-cover-athlete-fernando-tatis-jr The first game post-exclusivity,]] ''MLB: The Show 21'', was released on [=PlayStation=] 4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, Platform/PlayStation5, Platform/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS on April 20, 2021 with cross-platform multiplayer support. On January 31, 2022 it was announced that UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Platform/NintendoSwitch has joined the line of platforms starting with ''MLB: The Show 22''.
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On December 9, 2019, it was announced that ''MLB: The Show'' would be ending its [=PlayStation=] exclusivity as soon as 2021 (see LastOfItsKind below). [[https://blog.playstation.com/2021/02/01/introducing-our-mlb-the-show-21-cover-athlete-fernando-tatis-jr The first game post-exclusivity,]] ''MLB: The Show 21'', was released on [=PlayStation=] 4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS on April 20, 2021 with cross-platform multiplayer support. On January 31, 2022 it was announced that UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch has joined the line of platforms starting with ''MLB: The Show 22''. CueTheFlyingPigs.
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On December 9, 2019, it was announced that ''MLB: The Show'' would be ending its [=PlayStation=] exclusivity as soon as 2021 (see LastOfItsKind below). [[https://blog.playstation.com/2021/02/01/introducing-our-mlb-the-show-21-cover-athlete-fernando-tatis-jr The first game post-exclusivity,]] ''MLB: The Show 21'', was released on [=PlayStation=] 4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS on April 20, 2021 with cross-platform multiplayer support. On January 31, 2022 it was announced that UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch has joined the line of platforms starting with ''MLB: The Show 22''. CueTheFlyingPigs.
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* LastOfItsKind: Sony was one of six(!) companies to release a console baseball sim in 2003[[note]]along with EA's ''MVP Baseball 2003'', Sega's ''World Series [=2K3=]'', Acclaim's ''All-Star Baseball 2004'', [=3DO=]'s ''High Heat Baseball 2004'', and Microsoft's ''Inside Pitch 2003''; ironically, Sony's ''MLB 2004'' was the worst-received, critically[[/note]]; today, it is the only one left on the market, and until a landmark deal struck in 2019, a first-party [=PlayStation=] exclusive at that to the chagrin of baseball fans without a Sony machine. And unlike similar cases in other sports game genres, this is not due to a league exclusivity deal; everyone else bowed out due to time lapsed from a prior exclusivity deal in the aughts (EA),[[note]]Who lost the license to their popular ''MVP Baseball'' series due to 2K striking a third-party exclusive rights deal with MLB from 2006-2011, as retaliation for EA's new exclusive deal with the NFL[[/note]] poor games and sales (2K, Microsoft), studio closures (Acclaim, [=3DO=]), and escalating license fees (EA and 2K again).
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** Sony was one of six(!) companies to release a console baseball sim in 2003[[note]]along with EA's ''MVP Baseball 2003'', Sega's ''World Series [=2K3=]'', Acclaim's ''All-Star Baseball 2004'', [=3DO=]'s ''High Heat Baseball 2004'', and Microsoft's ''Inside Pitch 2003''; ironically, Sony's ''MLB 2004'' was the worst-received, critically[[/note]]; today, it is the only one left on the market, and until a landmark deal struck in 2019, a first-party [=PlayStation=] exclusive at that to the chagrin of baseball fans without a Sony machine. And unlike similar cases in other sports game genres, this is not due to a league exclusivity deal; everyone else bowed out due to time lapsed from a prior exclusivity deal in the aughts (EA),[[note]]Who lost the license to their popular ''MVP Baseball'' series due to 2K striking a third-party exclusive rights deal with MLB from 2006-2011, as retaliation for EA's new exclusive deal with the NFL[[/note]] poor games and sales (2K, Microsoft), studio closures (Acclaim, [=3DO=]), and escalating license fees (EA and 2K again).
** Sony was one of six(!) companies to release a console baseball sim in 2003[[note]]along with EA's ''MVP Baseball 2003'', Sega's ''World Series [=2K3=]'', Acclaim's ''All-Star Baseball 2004'', [=3DO=]'s ''High Heat Baseball 2004'', and Microsoft's ''Inside Pitch 2003''; ironically, Sony's ''MLB 2004'' was the worst-received, critically[[/note]]; today, it is the only one left on the market, and until a landmark deal struck in 2019, a first-party [=PlayStation=] exclusive at that to the chagrin of baseball fans without a Sony machine. And unlike similar cases in other sports game genres, this is not due to a league exclusivity deal; everyone else bowed out due to time lapsed from a prior exclusivity deal in the aughts (EA),[[note]]Who lost the license to their popular ''MVP Baseball'' series due to 2K striking a third-party exclusive rights deal with MLB from 2006-2011, as retaliation for EA's new exclusive deal with the NFL[[/note]] poor games and sales (2K, Microsoft), studio closures (Acclaim, [=3DO=]), and escalating license fees (EA and 2K again).
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On December 9, 2019, it was announced that ''MLB: The Show'' would be ending its [=PlayStation=] exclusivity as soon as 2021 (see LastOfItsKind below). [[https://blog.playstation.com/2021/02/01/introducing-our-mlb-the-show-21-cover-athlete-fernando-tatis-jr The first game post-exclusivity,]] ''MLB: The Show 21'', was released on [=PlayStation=] 4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS on April 20, 2021 with cross-platform multiplayer support. CueTheFlyingPigs.
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On December 9, 2019, it was announced that ''MLB: The Show'' would be ending its [=PlayStation=] exclusivity as soon as 2021 (see LastOfItsKind below). [[https://blog.playstation.com/2021/02/01/introducing-our-mlb-the-show-21-cover-athlete-fernando-tatis-jr The first game post-exclusivity,]] ''MLB: The Show 21'', was released on [=PlayStation=] 4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS on April 20, 2021 with cross-platform multiplayer support. On January 31, 2022 it was announced that UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch has joined the line of platforms starting with ''MLB: The Show 22''. CueTheFlyingPigs.
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On December 9, 2019, it was announced that ''MLB: The Show'' would be ending its [=PlayStation=] exclusivity as soon as 2021 (see LastOfItsKind below). [[https://blog.playstation.com/2021/02/01/introducing-our-mlb-the-show-21-cover-athlete-fernando-tatis-jr The first game post-exclusivity,]] ''MLB The Show 21'', will be released on [=PlayStation=] 4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS on April 20, 2021 with cross-platform multiplayer support. CueTheFlyingPigs.
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On December 9, 2019, it was announced that ''MLB: The Show'' would be ending its [=PlayStation=] exclusivity as soon as 2021 (see LastOfItsKind below). [[https://blog.playstation.com/2021/02/01/introducing-our-mlb-the-show-21-cover-athlete-fernando-tatis-jr The first game post-exclusivity,]] ''MLB ''MLB: The Show 21'', will be was released on [=PlayStation=] 4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS on April 20, 2021 with cross-platform multiplayer support. CueTheFlyingPigs.
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* RecycledTitle: There's two games with the year 2006 in the title, but they are actually different games. ''MLB 2006'' was the first SSDS-developed game, released in 2005. The next game, released in 2006, is ''MLB 06: The Show'', with all the annual upgrades, the new Road to the Show mode, and matching the year in the title with the release year. Unlike other sports, MLB plays its schedule within the same calendar year, so it doesn't need the year-in-advance title like ''Madden'' or ''NBA 2K''; to avoid confusion with which game is supposed to go with a specific baseball season, baseball developers in the mid-aughts began to match title and release years.
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* RecycledTitle: There's two games with the year 2006 in the title, but they are actually different games. ''MLB 2006'' was the first SSDS-developed SDS-developed game, released in 2005. The next game, released in 2006, is ''MLB 06: The Show'', with all the annual upgrades, the new Road to the Show mode, and matching the year in the title with the release year. Unlike other sports, MLB plays its schedule within the same calendar year, so it doesn't need the year-in-advance title like ''Madden'' or ''NBA 2K''; to avoid confusion with which game is supposed to go with a specific baseball season, baseball developers in the mid-aughts began to match title and release years.
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* RecycledTitle: There's two ''MLB 06'''s in the series, but they are actually different games. ''MLB 06'' was the first SSDS-developed game, released in 2005. The next game, released in 2006, is ''MLB 06: The Show'', with all the annual upgrades, the new Road to the Show mode, and matching the year in the title with the release year. Unlike other sports, MLB plays its schedule within the same calendar year, so it doesn't need the year-in-advance title like ''Madden'' or ''NBA 2K''; to avoid confusion with which game is supposed to go with a specific baseball season, baseball developers in the mid-aughts began to match title and release years.
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* RecycledTitle: There's two ''MLB 06'''s games with the year 2006 in the series, title, but they are actually different games. ''MLB 06'' 2006'' was the first SSDS-developed game, released in 2005. The next game, released in 2006, is ''MLB 06: The Show'', with all the annual upgrades, the new Road to the Show mode, and matching the year in the title with the release year. Unlike other sports, MLB plays its schedule within the same calendar year, so it doesn't need the year-in-advance title like ''Madden'' or ''NBA 2K''; to avoid confusion with which game is supposed to go with a specific baseball season, baseball developers in the mid-aughts began to match title and release years.
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* LastOfItsKind: Sony was one of six(!) companies to release a console baseball sim in 2003[[note]]along with EA's ''MVP Baseball 2003'', Sega's ''World Series [=2K3=]'', Acclaim's ''All-Star Baseball 2004'', [=3DO=]'s ''High Heat Baseball 2004'', and Microsoft's ''Inside Pitch 2003''; ironically, Sony's ''MLB 2004'' was the worst received critically[[/note]]; today, it is the only one left on the market, and until a landmark deal struck in 2019, a first-party [=PlayStation=] exclusive at that to the chagrin of baseball fans without a Sony machine. And unlike similar cases in other sports game genres, this is not due to a league exclusivity deal; everyone else bowed out due to time lapsed from a prior exclusivity deal in the aughts (EA),[[note]]Who lost the license to their popular ''MVP Baseball'' series due to 2K striking a third-party exclusive rights deal with MLB from 2006-2011, as retaliation for EA's new exclusive deal with the NFL[[/note]] poor games and sales (2K, Microsoft), studio closures (Acclaim, [=3DO=]), and escalating license fees (EA and 2K again).
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* LastOfItsKind: Sony was one of six(!) companies to release a console baseball sim in 2003[[note]]along with EA's ''MVP Baseball 2003'', Sega's ''World Series [=2K3=]'', Acclaim's ''All-Star Baseball 2004'', [=3DO=]'s ''High Heat Baseball 2004'', and Microsoft's ''Inside Pitch 2003''; ironically, Sony's ''MLB 2004'' was the worst received worst-received, critically[[/note]]; today, it is the only one left on the market, and until a landmark deal struck in 2019, a first-party [=PlayStation=] exclusive at that to the chagrin of baseball fans without a Sony machine. And unlike similar cases in other sports game genres, this is not due to a league exclusivity deal; everyone else bowed out due to time lapsed from a prior exclusivity deal in the aughts (EA),[[note]]Who lost the license to their popular ''MVP Baseball'' series due to 2K striking a third-party exclusive rights deal with MLB from 2006-2011, as retaliation for EA's new exclusive deal with the NFL[[/note]] poor games and sales (2K, Microsoft), studio closures (Acclaim, [=3DO=]), and escalating license fees (EA and 2K again).
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* LastOfItsKind: Sony was one of six(!) companies to release a console baseball sim in 2003; today, it is the only one left on the market, and a [=PlayStation=] exclusive at that to the chagrin of baseball fans with an Xbox. And unlike similar cases in other sports game genres, this is not due to a league exclusivity deal; everyone else bowed out due to time lapsed from a prior exclusivity deal in the aughts (EA),[[note]]Who lost the license to their popular ''MVP Baseball'' series due to 2K striking a third-party exclusive rights deal with MLB from 2006-2011, as retaliation for EA's new exclusive deal with the NFL[[/note]] poor games and sales (2K, Microsoft), studio closures (Acclaim, [=3DO=]), and escalating license fees (EA and 2K again).
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* LastOfItsKind: Sony was one of six(!) companies to release a console baseball sim in 2003; 2003[[note]]along with EA's ''MVP Baseball 2003'', Sega's ''World Series [=2K3=]'', Acclaim's ''All-Star Baseball 2004'', [=3DO=]'s ''High Heat Baseball 2004'', and Microsoft's ''Inside Pitch 2003''; ironically, Sony's ''MLB 2004'' was the worst received critically[[/note]]; today, it is the only one left on the market, and until a landmark deal struck in 2019, a first-party [=PlayStation=] exclusive at that to the chagrin of baseball fans with an Xbox.without a Sony machine. And unlike similar cases in other sports game genres, this is not due to a league exclusivity deal; everyone else bowed out due to time lapsed from a prior exclusivity deal in the aughts (EA),[[note]]Who lost the license to their popular ''MVP Baseball'' series due to 2K striking a third-party exclusive rights deal with MLB from 2006-2011, as retaliation for EA's new exclusive deal with the NFL[[/note]] poor games and sales (2K, Microsoft), studio closures (Acclaim, [=3DO=]), and escalating license fees (EA and 2K again).
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On December 9, 2019, it was announced that ''MLB: The Show'' would be ending its [=PlayStation=] exclusivity as soon as 2021 (see LastOfItsKind below). [[https://blog.playstation.com/2021/02/01/introducing-our-mlb-the-show-21-cover-athlete-fernando-tatis-jr The first game post-exclusivity,]] ''MLB The Show 21'', will be released on [=PlayStation=] 4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS on April 20, 2021 with cross-platform multiplayer support. CueTheFlyingPigs.
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* LastOfItsKind: Sony was one of six(!) companies to release a console baseball sim in 2003; today, it is the only one left on the market, and a [=PlayStation=] exclusive at that to the chagrin of baseball fans with an Xbox. And unlike similar cases in other sports game genres, this is not due to a league exclusivity deal; everyone else bowed out due to time lapsed from a prior exclusivity deal in the aughts (EA)[[note]]Who lost the license to their popular ''MVP Baseball'' series due to 2K striking a third-party exclusive rights deal with MLB from 2006-2011, as retaliation for EA's new exclusive deal with the NFL[[/note]], poor games and sales (2K, Microsoft), studio closures (Acclaim, [=3DO=]), and escalating license fees (EA and 2K again).
** This trope is actually the reason Major League Baseball and Sony came to a lucrative agreement to bring the first-party series to other consoles beginning in 2021. For most of the TheNewTens, no one stepped up to create baseball sims in the wake of ''The Show'''s dominance, leaving MLB's own media team to develop an [=arcade/sim=] hybrid revival of ''RBI Baseball'' for XBOX- and Switch-starved fans, which was poorly received. MLB worked out a deal with Sony to bring their seminal sim elsewhere, since there's little financial point for MLB to have a well-regarded official baseball game if it's only exclusive to one console.
** This trope is actually the reason Major League Baseball and Sony came to a lucrative agreement to bring the first-party series to other consoles beginning in 2021. For most of the TheNewTens, no one stepped up to create baseball sims in the wake of ''The Show'''s dominance, leaving MLB's own media team to develop an [=arcade/sim=] hybrid revival of ''RBI Baseball'' for XBOX- and Switch-starved fans, which was poorly received. MLB worked out a deal with Sony to bring their seminal sim elsewhere, since there's little financial point for MLB to have a well-regarded official baseball game if it's only exclusive to one console.
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* LastOfItsKind: Sony was one of six(!) companies to release a console baseball sim in 2003; today, it is the only one left on the market, and a [=PlayStation=] exclusive at that to the chagrin of baseball fans with an Xbox. And unlike similar cases in other sports game genres, this is not due to a league exclusivity deal; everyone else bowed out due to time lapsed from a prior exclusivity deal in the aughts (EA)[[note]]Who (EA),[[note]]Who lost the license to their popular ''MVP Baseball'' series due to 2K striking a third-party exclusive rights deal with MLB from 2006-2011, as retaliation for EA's new exclusive deal with the NFL[[/note]], NFL[[/note]] poor games and sales (2K, Microsoft), studio closures (Acclaim, [=3DO=]), and escalating license fees (EA and 2K again).
** This trope is actually the reason Major League Baseball and Sony came to a lucrative agreement to bring the first-party series to other consoles beginning in 2021. For most of the TheNewTens, no one stepped up to create baseball sims in the wake of ''The Show'''s dominance, leaving MLB's own media team to develop an [=arcade/sim=] hybrid revival of ''RBI Baseball'' forXBOX- Xbox- and Switch-starved Nintendo-starved fans, which was poorly received. MLB worked out a deal with Sony to bring their seminal sim elsewhere, since there's little financial point for MLB to have a well-regarded official baseball game if it's only exclusive to one console.
** This trope is actually the reason Major League Baseball and Sony came to a lucrative agreement to bring the first-party series to other consoles beginning in 2021. For most of the TheNewTens, no one stepped up to create baseball sims in the wake of ''The Show'''s dominance, leaving MLB's own media team to develop an [=arcade/sim=] hybrid revival of ''RBI Baseball'' for
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* SceneryPorn: The stadiums are all painstakingly recreated for The Show. ''MLB 09'' introduced time-of-day cycles; instead of shading stadium lighting and shadows for [=day/afternoon/night=] in static form all game, the game replicates every stadium's lighting as they are in real-life over a three-hour game at a specific time. This greatly enhanced the game's visual fidelity, recreating everything from the notoriously difficult afternoon shadows around home plate in Oakland, to the stark daylight-to-night-time cycle of 7pm local time games.
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* SceneryPorn: The stadiums are all painstakingly recreated for The Show. ''MLB 09'' introduced time-of-day cycles; instead of shading stadium lighting and shadows for [=day/afternoon/night=] in static form all game, the game replicates every stadium's lighting as they are in real-life over a three-hour game at a specific time.time, and in later games, specific ''months''. This greatly enhanced the game's visual fidelity, recreating everything from the notoriously difficult afternoon shadows around home plate in Oakland, to the stark daylight-to-night-time cycle of 7pm local time games.
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'''''MLB: The Show''''' is a UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball video game series produced by SIE San Diego Studio, a development team that is part of [[Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment SIE Worldwide Studios]]. The series debuted in 2006 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable (though it's technically a continuation of the older baseball sim series that began in 1997 on the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation; that phase of the show was simply titled ''MLB'' followed by the year). There has been a new release in the series every year since 2006, with '11 being the last [=PS2=] version. The series was on the [=PS3=] from '07 to '16, with '17's release being the first on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 exclusively. Like most sports franchises, each year features a different athlete on the cover; to commemorate his induction into baseball's hall of fame the previous year, Ken Griffey Jr. adorns the cover of '17.
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'''''MLB: The Show''''' is a UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball video game series produced by SIE San Diego Studio, a development team that is part of [[Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment SIE Worldwide Studios]]. The series debuted in 2006 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable (though it's technically a continuation of the older baseball sim series that began in 1997 on the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation; that phase of the show was simply titled ''MLB'' followed by the year). There has been a new release in the series every year since 2006, with '11 being the last [=PS2=] version. The series was on the [=PS3=] from '07 to '16, with '17's release being the first on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 exclusively. Like most sports franchises, each year features a different athlete on the cover; to commemorate his induction into baseball's hall of fame the previous year, Ken Griffey Jr. adorns the cover of '17.\n
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* DumpStat: Not really possible after the overhaul introduced StatGrinding as the main way of leveling, but Contact is largely seen as a completely useless stat, due to Power doing everything it does, but better.
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** Not really possible after the overhaul introduced StatGrinding as the main way of leveling, but Contact is largely seen as a completely useless stat, due to Power doing everything it does, butbetter. better.
** Bunting and Drag Bunting tend to go absolutely ignored by the majority of players because it's less exciting than creating a power hitter that can send ball out of the yard, and also because bunting as a mechanic is extremely unreliable.
** Not really possible after the overhaul introduced StatGrinding as the main way of leveling, but Contact is largely seen as a completely useless stat, due to Power doing everything it does, but
** Bunting and Drag Bunting tend to go absolutely ignored by the majority of players because it's less exciting than creating a power hitter that can send ball out of the yard, and also because bunting as a mechanic is extremely unreliable.
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* {{Leimotif}}: Since the start of ''The Show'' series, the game boots up with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVDn5AVMbJI 30-second fanfare]] at the main menu that has become synonymous with the series for long-time fans, especially its ending flourish.
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* {{Leimotif}}: {{Leitmotif}}: Since the start of ''The Show'' series, the game boots up with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVDn5AVMbJI 30-second fanfare]] at the main menu that has become synonymous with the series for long-time fans, especially its ending flourish.
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* {{Leimotif}}: Since the start of ''The Show'' series, the game boots up with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVDn5AVMbJI 30-second fanfare]] at the main menu that has become synonymous with the series for long-time fans, especially its ending flourish.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: As the series has gone on, it has become supremely friendly towards player customization and accessibility for all skill levels and types, from gameplay to presentation, so that the game can be complex or as simple as a player demands without compromising the whole experience:
** Having trouble fielding or baserunning, or simply don't want to do it? There's an option for the AI to do that for you.
** Want a simpler 16-bit style approach to hitting, fielding, and pitching over the modern day meters and mechanics? There are independent options to turn each of those into an old-school aim-and-press-X mechanic.
** Want a quicker game? You can turn off all the presentation flairs like camera cutaways and even the AI delay between pitches.
** Players can save mid-game and finish it later if they need to be elsewhere, simulate half-innings (if the player just wants to hit or pitch), full innings (if the player wants to skip to crunch time), and to game completion.
** Hitting and pitching have separate difficulty levels and sliders, so players can find a sweet spot for both stages of the game independently. The game also offers dynamic difficulties for both, where the game will slowly raise or lower the difficulty level batter by batter depending on how [=well/poorly=] the player is doing. Even the scale of how much the game auto-adjusts difficulty can be adjusted.
** Having trouble fielding or baserunning, or simply don't want to do it? There's an option for the AI to do that for you.
** Want a simpler 16-bit style approach to hitting, fielding, and pitching over the modern day meters and mechanics? There are independent options to turn each of those into an old-school aim-and-press-X mechanic.
** Want a quicker game? You can turn off all the presentation flairs like camera cutaways and even the AI delay between pitches.
** Players can save mid-game and finish it later if they need to be elsewhere, simulate half-innings (if the player just wants to hit or pitch), full innings (if the player wants to skip to crunch time), and to game completion.
** Hitting and pitching have separate difficulty levels and sliders, so players can find a sweet spot for both stages of the game independently. The game also offers dynamic difficulties for both, where the game will slowly raise or lower the difficulty level batter by batter depending on how [=well/poorly=] the player is doing. Even the scale of how much the game auto-adjusts difficulty can be adjusted.
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* SceneryPorn: The stadiums are all painstakingly recreated for The Show. ''MLB 09'' introduced time-of-day cycles; instead of shading stadium lighting and shadows for [=day/afternoon/night=] in static form all game, the game will replicates every stadium's lighting and shadows as they are in real-life over a three-hour game at a specific time. This greatly enhanced the game's visual fidelity, recreating everything from the notoriously difficult afternoon shadows around home plate in Oakland, to the stark daylight-to-night-time cycle of 7pm local time games.
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* SceneryPorn: The stadiums are all painstakingly recreated for The Show. ''MLB 09'' introduced time-of-day cycles; instead of shading stadium lighting and shadows for [=day/afternoon/night=] in static form all game, the game will replicates every stadium's lighting and shadows as they are in real-life over a three-hour game at a specific time. This greatly enhanced the game's visual fidelity, recreating everything from the notoriously difficult afternoon shadows around home plate in Oakland, to the stark daylight-to-night-time cycle of 7pm local time games.
