MLB The Show 21 Officially Arrives On Xbox One, Xbox Series X This April

Sony gotten greedy, acting like EA...

Just use smart delivery!

$70... ouch. Well I have been saving my MS Rewards! Can't wait!

Crossplay... curious... is it XBox One to PS4 only? Or can XBox Series X play against a friend on PS4?

Great news, definitely need some PS vs Xbox tournaments!!

@orionreplay @Tharsman the reasoning behind the game not utilising Smart Delivery is simple: if it did, it'd be $60 to play it on Series X and $70 to play it on PS5, and there's not a chance in hell that Sony would ever let that happen.

It's awkward seeing Sony pricing, and lack of Smart Delivery with this. It makes sense. That's how the pricing is on PS and they're certainly not going to make superior value on Xbox, but it also looks strange and almost petty to sidestep a key feature of the platform that their own platform entirely lacks for no obvious reason. To me it almost draws more attention to the fact PS5 lacks that obvious feature than I previously had.

The cross-play is totally unexpected though, that's pretty cool.

Bethesda deal got Playstation playing nice..

Not buying. $70 dollars is the deal breaker. Sony can charge that for its -first-party- games but I'll stick with Xbox.

@VenomousAlbino Makes sense.

@Bmartin001 I believe this is more because the MLB worked it into the deal it made with Sony. They wanted it multiplatform.

@VenomousAlbino Sony has their own smart delivery equivalent that Miles Morales uses. The real reason is just so they can get you to pay $70 across both platforms as opposed to just buying the last-gen version for $60. This could mean that the next-gen verison will be a bigger upgrade (Like how 2k had a much bigger upgrade for 2k which doesn't have a free upgrade than EA had for Madden which does have a free upgrade) or it could just be Sony being greedy. We don'tknow yet.

@VenomousAlbino if that is the reason, they should just sell the thing for $70 for everyone and be done with it, instead of locking two versions behind an even more expensive collectors edition.

Sony is starting this generation in a very gross and greedy direction.

@HammerKirby that is definitively nothing like smart delivery, and more like EAs "get the other copy free via these odd steps" hacked up system.

PS upgrades won't even sync save files or share trophy lists.

@HammerKirby What "smart delivery" equivalent does Miles Morales have? Last i checked it was buy the old one, or buy the new one (and the whole Spiderman Remastered debacle, which I unfortunately contributed to because it seemed like the only way to upgrade it and I hadn't really played it yet.)

@Tharsman Sony started greedy....Nintendo was already greedy....and MS smelled like a rose until they tried to double the price of Gold to force everyone into GPU. XB is still the best value, but I have no love for any of the brands this gen. They're taking a brutalized economy hamstrug by how-high-is-high stock market vultures, and deciding that's a great time to squeeze every penny from the market....I'm wary of any sudden moves from MS at any time, and annoyed at the up-front gouging by Sony. $70 still is not a good look for a video game. No matter the platform. From now on I'll think of a new release as "early access" - the real launch is when the price drops.

But yeah, selling two separated versions at different prices is just crazy. They really shoudl have sold one price, if it's $70, it's 70, and be done with it. This whole one version, the other version or pay 30% more and get both is scummy.

Although it's a cleaner break for Xbox. Nobody bought an X1, so anyone buying just wants the new one anyway. PS has the bigger problem. Everybody owns three or four PS4s, but nobody can find a PS5!

@NEStalgia I believe what @HammerKirby is talking about is the Miles Morales side upgrades no matter which one you buy. It’s just vanilla Spiderman that does not. I believe GOT and Days Gone also got “upgrade” paths could be wrong. There are other games to but those are three big ones off the top of my head.

But it is in no way like Smart Delivery. Which I’m finding is really hard to explain unless you own an Xbox. Yes it’s upgrades but it also downgrades, sidegrades, cloud syncs. “it’s just works” to quote and over used Apple phrase.

@mousieone GOT just got a framerate unlock patch, and nothing more. It's a BC game with a frame unlock. Same for Days AFAIK. Miles....maybe it has better BC performance, but you're not going to get the raytracing modes etc of the native PS5 version from a PS4 copy to my knowledge.

What's sad to me is that it's hard to explain Smart Delivery. To my mind that's the default. That's how everything would be expected to work by default. Having it work any other ways is the thing that needs weird explanations to me. Things like that is what keeps me preferring XB overall....their default seems to match with my expected default on most things. The SonTendo way is always some obscure game of twister inside my brain.