While sports simulations and video games have gone together like peanut butter and jelly for the existence of the art form, some might argue that things have not been so great for fans of professional baseball. Twenty years ago, gamers had choices from the major console manufacturers as well as third-party publishers, though these options dried up in the last decade due to exclusivity deals and the like. Baseball games were once fertile ground but have slowly become a barren desert, save for Sony’s MLB: The Show franchise.
While Take-Two had an exclusive deal to produce MLB games as a third-party licensor about a decade ago, they opted to leave the market in 2012, leaving Xbox and PC players with no pro baseball game. MLB still allowed console manufacturers to develop games for their platforms, so Sony continued on…
