MLB The Show Could Be Coming to Smartphones As Multiplatform Push Continues

The best baseball game is in Yakuza 6! Otherwise, it's more boring than cricket.

I’m surprised it’s not coming to PC before mobile. Seems like a strange omission.

Or it could be the fact that the Switch is based on mobile technology and Sony may be looking at ways to make the best possible version it can for both handheld and docked modes.

It was already strange enough seeing the PlayStation Studios logo on Xbox; it's going to be even weirder seeing it on Nintendo Switch.

The first smartphone was in 1992. When are we just going to call them phones? 😁

@get2sammyb I'm not saying that cricket is better, just less boring. Cricket is pretty boring, but then again it's supposed to be played on a lazy Summer day. American sport in general is just not that great.

@get2sammyb But I bet you will because you know you want portable MLB The Show! LOL!

@Apfelschteiner American sport is great if you like adverts! 😁

@get2sammyb no way cricket is more boring! Big bash, IPL, One Day, 20/20, Limited Overs, The Ashes are all more entertaining. Test Cricket is more tactical and nuanced. Only County Cricket I'd agree is duller, but then it's played by average players. But at least they don't cover everything in spit. Baseballers are disgusting!

Cricket: a sport that breaks for tea, can be rained off, lasts a week and can still end in a draw

@MatthewJP and the ref will hold your jumper if you're hot 😁

@get2sammyb How are Switch's analogue sticks less usable than DS4/5's? I mean yeah they have a different feel and range of motion, but they're not really limiting in any other game I can think of. It's not like it's Vita's weird feeling sticks. And the series WAS on Vita!

Certainly more playable than mobile, lol

@get2sammyb Both boring

@NEStalgia The Switch’s sticks are utter garbage. A Pro Controller is borderline mandatory.

@NEStalgia

As a Switch owner and big fan of the console, you’re wrong on that bud.

The Joycon sticks are acceptable for short game play sessions or slow paced RPGs and point and click games.

For shooters or any game requiring complex analog motions, they’re trash. Very limited travel, poor feedback on the click in functions, and the location of the stick on the right joycon is suboptimal for comfortable play in long sessions.

Now the Pro controller is a different story. Outside of being overpriced and a so-so D-Pad that controller is a masterpiece and I’d argue it’s Nintendo’s greatest controller of all time.

I respect the Show. But man baseball is boring.

The only two sports I’ve ever gotten hardcore into is Basketball and what you old worlders call “football.” I love playing soccer and I enjoy watching it.

American football isn’t half bad either even though I feel the sport has been watered down over the past twenty years.

@nessisonett I have a lot of bones to pick with Switch, but TBH the usability of the sticks, when they're not drifting, has never really been one of them. I use it almost exclusively as a handheld at this point, so my pro controller goes a year at a time untouched, but the joycon have never really interfered with play. Even with precision shooting like sniping in Splatoon (admittedly that's gyro assisted, but the speed and precision still matter.)

It's not as nice as PSXB controllers of course, but it's a big step up from Vita's sticks which handled MLB just fine.

The mobile version will have you grip the phone like a baseball bat handle and you'll be able to swing using the gyroscope, the phone will slip out of your hand while hitting a home run, hitting the big burly guy sitting at the front of the bus, he'll get up and a brawl will be activated and the crowd goes wild (on the app) . Fun for all!

Sony should push their mobile division more tbh, I mean look at the success of games such as league of legends wild Rift, Pokémon Go, mario kart tour, genshin impact, clash of clans etc they bring in billions per year each and at a fraction of a cost to make compared to console games.

Sony could use the money they make from mobile games to inject into its console division to create more games or save up so after 4-5 years they have around at least 5 Billion for studio acquisitions, and whilst their at it they should revamp playstation now and also put that back onto the android market.

That coupled with more pc releases and Sony will rake in the money.

@nessisonett @TheRedComet I suck at Souls and at MH, so I feel awkward saying this, but I think you scrubs just need to git gud

I jest of course, but seriously, I've never felt impacted by the joycon sticks, at least not on the order of the Vita or 3DS sticks. I've played a lot of Splatoon, up through S+ rank (not into the crazy X ranks or anything) on that thing, and don't do any worse on there than on the pro controller. Obviously, plus lots of other games. I admit fighting games are a bit rough, but I'm a joystick guy through and through for fighters, and I'm super casual at them.

I can't refute the specific criticisms though. Yeah, limited travel is a thing, but that's the obvious nature of what they have to do. The click feedback isn't necessarily great (and accelerates drift), and the grip with the position of the right stick and dimensions of the unit aren't ideal. Obviously there's the caveat that it's a portable sized control stick versus a full sized controller, but within the necessary limitations of a miniaturized control, it's very well designed (note I said designed, not well made, which it is most definitely not, lol.)

When I first got the Switch my first action was to test the sticks to see if they were as bad as Vitas, and fortunately they were way better. I love my Vita, but those sticks..... The only good thing about them was there were actually two, and neither of them skinned your thumb down to the muscle tissue unlike PSP.

@get2sammyb How DARE you! Cricket matches can last for days 🙈

i'd be happy with a pc version

@Rural-Bandit I played on PS consoles since the PS1 and love my PS controllers. Fingers that slip of i never had that issue.

I dont like US sports Rugby is better then American football and baseball yeah its boring as F***. Icehockey thats cool to see but besides that its all boring its a pity they force you to take US based crap with our European sports soccer and formula 1. Its my personal opinion so thats it sorry US fans.

@Rural-Bandit Just buy a few stickcovers thats cheap and easy the only thing is that sometimes i like the sticks to be a little higher with shooters so i use those for the PS4 controllers.

@Rural-Bandit I know, I am not complaining. It's just so weird seeing the logo. I am sure it's weird seeing Xbox Games Studios on PlayStation as well.

It's just interesting times!

@Flaming_Kaiser I have to agree with @Rural-Bandit I've played on pretty much every controller from the big 4 and some 3rd party controllers. Sonys analog sticks have been a weakness for them all along. To be fair the ds1 sticks were head and shoulders above the N64, but all their controllers since then have had pretty shoddy sticks with terrible range and really terrible dead zones. Ds3 was the low point. Ds4 did improve but was still pretty below average. Ds5 finally is the first ps to actually have decent sticks. Idk who Cerny had to kidnap to make that happen but it finally happened. I happen to prefer the ergonomics of xsx and especially the elite V2, but the ds5, though slightly bulky, finally can "disappear" while I play games.

@Rural-Bandit DS4 actually had a quiet revision that fixed the breaking triggers and self destructive stick caps....I have both the launch model that fell apart everywhere and the fixed version that held up a lot better. But the buttons were mushy, the grips short, and the terrible range and dead zone....

But yeah definitely agree. The ds5 sticks still aren't the best, but it's such an improvement I can cut it some slack