Imagine them doing a super console together, that everyone loves and uses.. no more console wars. And to please today's standards it could be called the GayStation XXXXXX
Yeah due to a dodgy backdoor buissness deal , nothing to be proud of here just more of scummy Microsoft trying to force their control , which is not a good thing for gamers , we all be forced into gamepass and having microtransactions shoved in our faces if Microsoft get their way
@@jacobreed47 Dude, I'm a native Spanish speaker. I did a literal translation of a phrase we have, that's why it probably sounds kinda weird in English LOL.
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@@ramboj7924 The term “soccer” was still in use in some parts of the UK, in some social strata, as recently as the early ‘90s. Lots of UK-produced video games, including some only sold in Europe, used “soccer” in their titles in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Sensible Soccer being one particularly legendary example. Given Rich’s age, that may explain it in whole or in part. And “soccer” was always a British term, that’s why Canadians, South Africans, Australians, etc., call it soccer. Brits taught us to call it that, but now unjustly criticize us for using the term they taught us. Not cool.
@@ScrapKing73 Yea it's really dumb that they try to correct the word soccer while they also say senseless shit like MUM or MATHS when neither of those make any sense at all as abbreviations. We should correct them on those, because they're stupid.
@@hugostiglitzracing866 Actually, I think pronouncing it like "mum" makes perfect sense, as that's the same vowel sound at the beginning of "mother". While pronouncing it "mum", we should spell it "mom" for this same reason. That's in fact what many Canadians do, spelling it like the Americans but pronouncing it like the Brits.
@@ScrapKing73 that's complete and absolute bullshit. O AND U DO NOT HAVE THE SAME VOWEL SOUND. Cant believe that even needs to be explained. Are you thinking of ou like in colour? Mother isnt spelled mouther anywhere in the world so you're talking out of your ass dude
Right? I just commented that the crowd look like PS3 main characters and that there's so much crowd. And not to mention the awesome looking baseball players!
That would be true if Sony was actually a 3rd party developers like EA..but this had everything to do with MLB themselves..Soo if Sony wants to keep said licensing deal with MLB, it had to happen, but going forward i hope this IP doesn't suffer because of this. 🤔🤷🏾♂️ we'll see
Back in the day each console used to have their own exclusive sports games along with the third party ones. Miss when there used to be way more options.
@@LonghornsLegend Uh No, why it happened is important too, soo fools don't think this is gonna happen to ALL Playstation Ips!! Yes i've already seen those stupid comments. Smdh lol 🤷🏾♂️
I haven't played a baseball game since Ken Griffey Jr on N64, but because it was on game pass I thought I would download it and give it a try. It's an awesome game and it's hard to put down. I'm not sure if I'm going to get super into all the different modes and settings because it is extremely in-depth, but but overall it's a very fun game that I'll continue to play and I'm really glad it's on game pass
@@nightruler666 yes, but it's only optional. You can grind it in the game modes to generate the in game currency to get the card packs. But you can buy the currency if you don't want to grind. And it isn't like you can't easily generate the currency by playing the modes. You can.
I just learned today that there's a retro mode in the show that kind of emulates the style of the griffey games, but with the modern assets. Haha kinda interesting. Might be worth checking out
It's kind of jarring. As a long time player, it looks like they upgraded the dirt but not the grass. Dirt is high quality to me, while the grass looks straight from PS3.
I haven't watched raw gameplay of the MLB series in a long time and I gotta say I'm really impressed with how far the animations and crowds have come. The presentation is so much more convincing now.
I got into baseball a few years back when I was off sick for a while (I’m British). It’s a very therapeutic game where not much happens for long periods then explodes into action. Played one of the PS3 The Game iterations and it was really good fun. This should be a belter on Series X or PS5.
Playstation Studio sabotaging the SX version lol, just messing, main thing is gameplay is a solid 60fps on both consoles. (talking about XSX and PS5 ver)
@@mingo82 this is true. I wonder why the cutscene on series x drop when it’s a more than capable machine. Oh wait....I know why it mildly underperforms on those sections 😏.
@@MrRafie82 they still bought them out tho so technically they are still giving the green light for it. By them saying yes to it and honoring it, that makes them the middle man in terms of publishing. Also just because they agreed to a deal before the acquisition, it doesn’t mean Microsoft has to honor it anymore, but they are not like that and will continue to give out the timed exclusivity to them
@@pilot.sergio4 You may wanna do more research on how deals go. It's not that cut and dry. You can't just dimiss someone from a contract just because an entity bought out the property. Either you continue to honor that deal/agreement in place, or buy them out of It's plausible. Otherwise you risk breaching and will be sued with a hefty fine coming right after.
I need to give credits to devs here, they made a good job on xbox consoles since its the first time in 20 years that they are working with xbox hardware 👏👏👏👏
And having to work on 3 damn Xbox machines too. No developer wants to make their next gen games on a SECOND Xbox weaker speced console. The sooner more devs come out about this the better.
@@VariantAEC Closer to watching it in person, though :) Also would decrease the input lag, which would probably be even more important than the visuals.
@Digital Foundry The reason why MLB The Show went multiplatform, is that MLB Themselves issued Sony with an ultimatum since they are the sole holders of the MLB license for simulation style games on console/PC. Similar to how EA is the only holders of the NFL/NFLPA license for sim games on console/PC. The ultimatum was either develop the game for all platforms (Xbox, PC, Nintendo, Playstation), or lose the license exclusivity. Major League Baseball feels they can get more sales and thus a bigger share of the profits for from a game that will sell a few million more units across multiple platforms rather than about 1mil - 1.25mil on a single platform. MLB is also the publisher of the Xbox version of the game, which is how they were able to do gamepass on the Xbox version, since Microsoft isn't dealing with Sony directly for that since Sony isn't the publisher like they are on the Playstation version.
For real. Seems like Sony and Microsoft have two different philosophies regarding gaming. I don't see the former remaining in good faith with gamers if they don't start being open to inclusiveness. Games are so expensive nowadays.
@@kelvinpearce5572 I think this arrogance comes with over confidence. When the 360 was successful, Xbox one era was not so friendly. When the PS4 was successful, the PS5 era is starting to become arrogant. Atleast MS is not arrogant in putting their games on PC day one, so that makes me happy
@@waltzraghu686 what Console war,?? Colteastwood and the bunch of RDX staff making videos that flaming the war, SX Isn't the Most powerful console, its barerly a Next Gen machine compared to PS5, MICROSOFT lied to you as always, its not about war its about being delusional, Team Xbox definitely have problems in their minds. Just like their playerbase.
That was a great video. Glad it runs fairly well on most platforms, but the optimization is surprisingly poorly optimized on Series S. It makes me wonder what is happening in the code. Probably would be a fun find. No question MLB was the primary beneficiary, but it’s still surprising how little Playstation was interested in even offering any incentives for their own players despite their willingness to do so for third party games. Also, it’s unfortunate the lack of options on next gen, but this is a great example of how Xbox systems still have a lot of locked power and Playstation 5 isn’t that radically different than the PS4 Pro. Especially considering this is only optimized on Playstation and this isn’t even factoring in the improvements DX12U, or even Vulkan, would provide. Still, The Show 21 is a very solid game, and especially when compared to other Sport’s titles like Madden or NBA, it is very high quality and will satisfy far more than it will frustrate for interested players.
I've gotten every MLB the show since the first one, and I have been playing this one strictly on my series X, and it's glorious. I'm addicted to this game.
The big difference between old gen & new gen versions of the game for the end user that isn’t performance related is new gen only gets the build a stadium feature. That stadium can be used in the online Diamond Dynasty (MUT/My Team equivalent) mode, as long as you keep the stadium within certain guidelines.
Not gonna lie, I kinda love seeing the playstation studio on xbox. It's cool to see xbox fans enjoy the quality ps studio games. I'm sure sony wouldn't have done this without the Mlb haha
@@ivanleon6164 I think the gamepass move was meant to be a low blow for sure, but I know sony wouldnt have done this without the Mlb. Sports games being multiplat doesn't bother me too much
Yes, please, DF. There's no native current gen version, so I need to see how the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X versions compare before I decide which version to pick up.
@@SanjiSmutje Somebody counted the pixels and said the ps5 version (I guess PS4 pro version) was 1080p. Maybe both Xbox One X and PS4 pro are both 1080p then, and by extension the PS5 and XSX will be identical. This could be wrong though, it would be nice to get some confirmation!
@@skyycam i don't know man, i don't like soccer and yet playing Fifa is not that bad! And Mario Baseball is pretty fun on the gamecube lol.. i know one is kiddy game and the other is a sim but you gotta make it fun.
thanks from one of your American Patreon subscribers. I've tested on Xbox One S, and let me tell you..... it's rough. you would have a bounty of "yikes" data if you re-ran tests on base consoles, methinks.
I dont think the fps drop on xbox is an engine issue, since its also faster on one x than ps4 pro, what this game shows is what weve seen already in most games ps5 is generally faster than series x on rasterised graphics, polygons, textures, alpha particles and what not.
PS5 is Holding back the performance advantages of Series X. These are Sony Developers, so they won’t and probably can not further develop the game higher on Series X then what the PS5 configuration is able to do due to contractual Sony obligations. It’s totally comparing apples and oranges. We all know this game can fully be optimized way better on Series X than PS5. It’s truly a dishonest justice to us gamers especially on Series X platform.
The game is 4k running with an unlocked framerate across all versions...lol at "holding back" with an UNLOCKED framerate? 60FPS is the only limit but XSX can't maintain that so...where's the holding part? You Can't fix stupid.
@@riceeater79 I know your pain “Riceeater79” 😆😆 (Love the Name) . The truth hurts but not gonna debate with you on this. There’s enough videos on RUclips to support my argument. BTW, didn’t anyone tell you eating too much rice isn’t healthy these days.
I have never played a baseball game before (boring) but I must say the crowd animation is amazing. I almost lost it when I see the beer cooler guy walking down the stairs in the crowd.
Yeah I may be an Xbox fanboy but if there's anything holding back the performance on Xbox, I highly doubt it would be Sony intentionally doing it. It'd most likely be due to, yknow, Sony developing it? Since they wouldn't exactly be used to developing on the Xbox, it's not hard to believe they simply don't know how to squeeze as much power out of the XSX as, say, IO Interactive, who made Hitman 3 which runs better on XSX. And even then it's still so early in the generation to really tell which case will be the norm - whether PS5, or XSX, will generally run multiplats better. Hitman 3 could be the start of XSX running more games better or it could just be an anomaly, things still aren't very clear.
@@ronnieradon PS5 GPU has a 20% higher triangles per second/rasterization peak and culling rate compared to XSX besides other advantages. 18% theoretical compute lead of XSX is not everything contrary to current narrative. I personally don't consider XSX GPU to be more powerful. One should look at specs at a deeper level to understand the current situation. Assuming XSX is more powerful JUST because of it's slight GPU advantage and ignoring everything else is the reason why so many so called tech heads look dumb when these games keep coming out where PS5 has the advantage.
The funny thing about this game is that you can also play the PS4 version on PS5 at 4k/mostly 60 fps. You just won't get the haptic feedback or stadium creator. I know of some people, and I might start doing it myself, who are starting to do this simply because they are sick of seeing opponents' horrible custom stadiums in online play.
It was surprising to me that the game was exclusive in the first place. I am not a fan of sim baseball but I did try the game on Series X, Gamepass. Thought it was fine. As a multi-console gamer I say put the games on as many platforms as possible. Better for all gamers.
It's recommended by all the top players who play mlb to play it on a monitor because of input lag and a lower millisecond response time compared to most game modes on TVs.
@@DaPopester1 gladly! I love SD Studio and will always support them. I got a PS5 so it makes sense. Not switching platform for one game. Do you play? Who is your favorite team?
This game is made so well, that made me understand baseball and have so much fun with it. The option to choose your controls is fantastic. Every baseball players stats from what I can see, matters. You can clearly see how much they change when batting, pitching or even fielding. Awesome animations with realistic models. Probably the best baseball game ever made, but it's my first one and on Gamepass! Loving it on my XsX.
So Sony focused primarily on the Playstation versions, and just got Xbox up and running. But I don't get how a game that looks like that, perform so poorly across every console...
I mean Playstation is what they've known for over two decades. They are a smaller studio and went from developing for two consoles to seven in one year. PS4, Pro, PS5, XSX, XSS, X1X, XB1 Give it time post launch. Let them iron things out.
@@tommybull6578 I don't care about your childish console war. One of the great things about owning both systems is I can buy games on both and avoid ending up like you, fighting the good fight over some plastic box they think is better than the other plastic box.
@@MikeBisonTX Yeah I guess that could be the case. The game just looks like a last gen game not pushing any boundaries. So it's surprising the performance is tanking like that even on PS5/XSX.
This game is the most photorealistic videogame I've ever seen in my life. My mind was fooled more than once that I was watching real baseball players on the field. My goodness, kudos to the devs.
After a few updates this will be one of the smoothest sports games out there, especially with how many consoles it spans across. Pretty damn good job on all sides ladies and gents. 🍻
Yeah like Sony turned round and said they're forcing us to do a SX version lets make it better, they probably don't even have an SX dev kit, most likely just ported straight over
So is this a resolution issue causing drops, or a programming issue causing drops? Cause this game doesn't even come close to pushing the next Gen hardware to the max... Doesn't make sense.
I kinda hoped to see Rich do the prior-gen versions back compat on the new consoles, as at least from what my eyes have assumed, those frame rate drops on cutscenes are almost non-existent, even on Sharper mode.
@6:45 We saw the exact same in many third party games and as a reference i can name your own videos Digital Foundry ! Sometimes i think you guys are drunk. We LITERALLY saw the same in many next gen games, come on guys. Its not because its a Sony made game
@@corey_massey Yeah it's 72GB on xbox. That's a curious thing that it's smaller on PS5. Thougt that was pretty obvious as a non-baseball fan no way would I have paid money for it lol.
@@xAKIMBOCURLYx Just a note, the vast majority of third party games are smaller on PS5 than Series X. PS5 uses Kraken compression and decompression technology and when used in conjunction with the PS5 I/O solution it allows for large texture files to occupy less space on the storage drive. I don't pretend to fully understand what or how any of that works but that explanation is taken straight from Mark Cerney's Road to PS5 presentation when he explained why Sony chose the smaller SSD memory and odd numbered allotment of storage memory.
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So nuts seeing Playstation Studios brand show on my series X boot up lol.
Imagine them doing a super console together, that everyone loves and uses.. no more console wars. And to please today's standards it could be called the GayStation XXXXXX
What about Minecraft?
@@kiisseli1337 hell yea gimmy my GayBox 69
@@kiisseli1337 no competition is never a good thing
Yeah due to a dodgy backdoor buissness deal , nothing to be proud of here just more of scummy Microsoft trying to force their control , which is not a good thing for gamers , we all be forced into gamepass and having microtransactions shoved in our faces if Microsoft get their way
Gotta love how Rich made this comparison out of simple morbid curiosity.
“Morbid” huh?
Mmm-oook..
@@jacobreed47 Dude, I'm a native Spanish speaker. I did a literal translation of a phrase we have, that's why it probably sounds kinda weird in English LOL.
Sorry to be off topic but does any of you know a trick to get back into an instagram account..?
I was stupid forgot the login password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me.
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Most shocking thing in this video is Richard saying "soccer".
Funny enough, the British used to call it Soccer but started calling it football, because Soccer sounded to American.
@@ramboj7924 The term “soccer” was still in use in some parts of the UK, in some social strata, as recently as the early ‘90s. Lots of UK-produced video games, including some only sold in Europe, used “soccer” in their titles in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Sensible Soccer being one particularly legendary example. Given Rich’s age, that may explain it in whole or in part. And “soccer” was always a British term, that’s why Canadians, South Africans, Australians, etc., call it soccer. Brits taught us to call it that, but now unjustly criticize us for using the term they taught us. Not cool.
@@ScrapKing73 Yea it's really dumb that they try to correct the word soccer while they also say senseless shit like MUM or MATHS when neither of those make any sense at all as abbreviations. We should correct them on those, because they're stupid.
@@hugostiglitzracing866 Actually, I think pronouncing it like "mum" makes perfect sense, as that's the same vowel sound at the beginning of "mother". While pronouncing it "mum", we should spell it "mom" for this same reason. That's in fact what many Canadians do, spelling it like the Americans but pronouncing it like the Brits.
@@ScrapKing73 that's complete and absolute bullshit. O AND U DO NOT HAVE THE SAME VOWEL SOUND. Cant believe that even needs to be explained. Are you thinking of ou like in colour? Mother isnt spelled mouther anywhere in the world so you're talking out of your ass dude
Crazy how far crowd animation we have gotten.
Right? I just commented that the crowd look like PS3 main characters and that there's so much crowd. And not to mention the awesome looking baseball players!
Yeah it's pretty nuts. I still remember crowds being blobs in games like NHL and NBA.
Yes, crowd looks amazing.
It's so unrealistic. We need cardboard cutouts to come back!
I dont know, the crowd in Mike Tysons Punchout on NES was really good
It’s nice to see it on all platforms though imo no mainstream sport games should be exclusive to any platform.
That would be true if Sony was actually a 3rd party developers like EA..but this had everything to do with MLB themselves..Soo if Sony wants to keep said licensing deal with MLB, it had to happen, but going forward i hope this IP doesn't suffer because of this. 🤔🤷🏾♂️ we'll see
@@princephillip1481 nothing he said was incorrect he said sports party games shouldn't be console exclusive. Nobody cares who forced who to do it
Back in the day each console used to have their own exclusive sports games along with the third party ones. Miss when there used to be way more options.
@@LonghornsLegend Uh No, why it happened is important too, soo fools don't think this is gonna happen to ALL Playstation Ips!! Yes i've already seen those stupid comments. Smdh lol 🤷🏾♂️
Sport games should not exist
I haven't played a baseball game since Ken Griffey Jr on N64, but because it was on game pass I thought I would download it and give it a try. It's an awesome game and it's hard to put down. I'm not sure if I'm going to get super into all the different modes and settings because it is extremely in-depth, but but overall it's a very fun game that I'll continue to play and I'm really glad it's on game pass
@@nightruler666 yes, but it's only optional. You can grind it in the game modes to generate the in game currency to get the card packs. But you can buy the currency if you don't want to grind. And it isn't like you can't easily generate the currency by playing the modes. You can.
I just learned today that there's a retro mode in the show that kind of emulates the style of the griffey games, but with the modern assets. Haha kinda interesting. Might be worth checking out
Everybody: For sure DF will make a vid about fps boost in Battlefields
DF: Here's our video on American cricket.
man, the fps boost for Battlefield games was launched a few hours ago, how long do you think these videos take to be done?
@@diegofuentes425 mate, I'm just trolling.
Pffft I could care less about power and performance atleast I don't need to spend 70$ lol
Lol
@@diegofuentes425 it was launched yesterday lol
Video is 13:49 long, hope the grass texture loads in by then...
It's kind of jarring. As a long time player, it looks like they upgraded the dirt but not the grass. Dirt is high quality to me, while the grass looks straight from PS3.
Grass does look weird in this game...
@@Spokker That's what you get from a cross gen title, if it was next gen only like Demon's Souls it would have far better textures
@@mehrad1983 FIFA 14 was a cross gen title and the xbox one version had visible grass.
@@mehrad1983 Demons Souls is a PS3 remaster lmfao
It always surprised me that MLB was allowed to be exclusive in the first place.
If you researched how that came to be then it wouldn't surprise you at all. This didn't happen on purpose
EA and 2K stopped making the games. It was never exclusive.
The MLB threatened to take the license away from Sony if they didn't make it multiplat. Sony didn't even publish the Xbox version.
Blame madden and ea.
@@03chrisv nope that's the common misconception.
The beginning o this video had me feeling i was watching an episode of Planet Earth lol
That makes me think, Rich wouldn't be a bad nature doc narrator.
I haven't watched raw gameplay of the MLB series in a long time and I gotta say I'm really impressed with how far the animations and crowds have come. The presentation is so much more convincing now.
The self-shadowing on player details is SUPER impressive. They absolutely nailed the lighting overall.
I got into baseball a few years back when I was off sick for a while (I’m British). It’s a very therapeutic game where not much happens for long periods then explodes into action. Played one of the PS3 The Game iterations and it was really good fun. This should be a belter on Series X or PS5.
Rich not being a baseball fan is shocking 😂
How? He's British.
The closest we come to Baseball in the UK is Rounders at school.
Ehh guys sarcasm.
He evidently didnt play baseball stars when he was a teen , otherwise he would like it.
@@sparoc3 He's british, but said "soccer", THAT was shocking... :(
Playstation Studio sabotaging the SX version lol, just messing, main thing is gameplay is a solid 60fps on both consoles. (talking about XSX and PS5 ver)
But its not did u watch video
@@djbpresents9584 none gamplay cut scene sections are variable and favour the PS5, but actual gamplay is 60fps.
@@mingo82 this is true. I wonder why the cutscene on series x drop when it’s a more than capable machine. Oh wait....I know why it mildly underperforms on those sections 😏.
@@mingo82 mostly it is not locked 60 on either
@@mingo82 wich is shame being as it has no next gen graphics
I loved the writing in this video. Concise and straight to the point.
Right then he says in the video he had to buy the cross gen version on playstation big difference there
Rich’s intro narration sounds like it was written by the comment section
appreciate that df covered this.
A PlayStation studios game on Xbox (and game pass to boot) and MS technically publishing Ps5 timed exclusives (Deathloop, Ghostwire).
What a world.
MS isn't publishing the game though. The timed deals was already penned before the acquisition.
@@MrRafie82 they still bought them out tho so technically they are still giving the green light for it. By them saying yes to it and honoring it, that makes them the middle man in terms of publishing. Also just because they agreed to a deal before the acquisition, it doesn’t mean Microsoft has to honor it anymore, but they are not like that and will continue to give out the timed exclusivity to them
@@pilot.sergio4 You may wanna do more research on how deals go. It's not that cut and dry. You can't just dimiss someone from a contract just because an entity bought out the property. Either you continue to honor that deal/agreement in place, or buy them out of It's plausible. Otherwise you risk breaching and will be sued with a hefty fine coming right after.
I can't wait to see the Returnal breakdown that game looks interesting
More like Refundal 😂😂😂😂🤣
Got that ish on pre-order. Can't wait!
@@Lepend0K4287 why u salty?
@@akkibajaj705 No need to be angry big boy i just think the game is boring just my opinion you dont need to aggre of course 😉
@@Lepend0K4287 how am I being aggressive I was asking u a question 😐
I need to give credits to devs here, they made a good job on xbox consoles since its the first time in 20 years that they are working with xbox hardware 👏👏👏👏
And having to work on 3 damn Xbox machines too. No developer wants to make their next gen games on a SECOND Xbox weaker speced console. The sooner more devs come out about this the better.
@@andrewsqual 4 xbox machines, x,s, one x and one.
@Russell Adler yeah garbage games like ori xbot 😂
@Russell Adler You do know that Sony isn't the only one pricing games at 70 bucks, right?
@Russell Adler imagine using a game rental service with less games than PS now, and not even owning those games 😂
Imagine having to pay $75
Imagine owning a game...
@@davidvillamarin7164 even without gamepass I'm still paying $15 less than you for the best optimized version of the game
when the game leaves gamepass in 3 months you'll have pay up lol
@@davidvillamarin7164 but still paying $75 and not "owning" it 😂
Imagine all the people living life in peace
The crowd is made up of models as detailed as main characters in PS3 games, and there's a lot of them.
This looks like a ps3 game
@@flipzmadmax5494 You played a mlb game on ps3 right? It looks nowhere close to this..
@@Shadowninja1200 keep telling yourself that. It does. The graphics too
@@flipzmadmax5494 You are fake news
@@theryan519 you're mom's fake news. This is real
Would love The Show to have a 120 FPS mode moving forward. Could really benefit the pitching and batting animations.
Huh? 60 is fine for animations.
@@Ace21kg it would make batting a lot easier
And also twice as fast as watching the game on TV!
60hz is authentic mode 😆
120hz would be Sony donating their Motionflow technology to Xbox too.
@@VariantAEC Closer to watching it in person, though :)
Also would decrease the input lag,
which would probably be even more important than the visuals.
I really don't see the point of that for a game like this.
Something Richard left out. PS5/Xbox Series versions also have the stadium creator mode that last gen doesn't
Last gen doesn't and Nintendon't
He mentioned that the next gen systems have more “bells and whistles”
@Digital Foundry The reason why MLB The Show went multiplatform, is that MLB Themselves issued Sony with an ultimatum since they are the sole holders of the MLB license for simulation style games on console/PC. Similar to how EA is the only holders of the NFL/NFLPA license for sim games on console/PC. The ultimatum was either develop the game for all platforms (Xbox, PC, Nintendo, Playstation), or lose the license exclusivity.
Major League Baseball feels they can get more sales and thus a bigger share of the profits for from a game that will sell a few million more units across multiple platforms rather than about 1mil - 1.25mil on a single platform. MLB is also the publisher of the Xbox version of the game, which is how they were able to do gamepass on the Xbox version, since Microsoft isn't dealing with Sony directly for that since Sony isn't the publisher like they are on the Playstation version.
3:38 didn't know prince Harry was a baseball player 🤣
This is where the fun begins
PS5 wins
For real. Seems like Sony and Microsoft have two different philosophies regarding gaming. I don't see the former remaining in good faith with gamers if they don't start being open to inclusiveness. Games are so expensive nowadays.
@@dondavid822 Really? Can't you people stop doing these console war stuff...
@@kelvinpearce5572 I think this arrogance comes with over confidence. When the 360 was successful, Xbox one era was not so friendly. When the PS4 was successful, the PS5 era is starting to become arrogant. Atleast MS is not arrogant in putting their games on PC day one, so that makes me happy
@@waltzraghu686 what Console war,?? Colteastwood and the bunch of RDX staff making videos that flaming the war, SX Isn't the Most powerful console, its barerly a Next Gen machine compared to PS5, MICROSOFT lied to you as always, its not about war its about being delusional, Team Xbox definitely have problems in their minds. Just like their playerbase.
That was a great video. Glad it runs fairly well on most platforms, but the optimization is surprisingly poorly optimized on Series S. It makes me wonder what is happening in the code. Probably would be a fun find.
No question MLB was the primary beneficiary, but it’s still surprising how little Playstation was interested in even offering any incentives for their own players despite their willingness to do so for third party games.
Also, it’s unfortunate the lack of options on next gen, but this is a great example of how Xbox systems still have a lot of locked power and Playstation 5 isn’t that radically different than the PS4 Pro. Especially considering this is only optimized on Playstation and this isn’t even factoring in the improvements DX12U, or even Vulkan, would provide.
Still, The Show 21 is a very solid game, and especially when compared to other Sport’s titles like Madden or NBA, it is very high quality and will satisfy far more than it will frustrate for interested players.
Being an Xbox/PC guy, I hadnt seen much in the way of baseball games in a good long while, and WOW. You can almost smell the hot-dogs.
Awesome job, Rich! Really loved how you went into comparisons of all the new consoles plus the end of last gen.
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Whoa whoa whoa whoa Richey boy. Did you just say FIFA soccer ⚽️😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Its a shame the base PS4 and Xbox One versions are basically unplayable
I play on a ps4 slim and I'm pretty sure it doesn't run at 60hz
I've gotten every MLB the show since the first one, and I have been playing this one strictly on my series X, and it's glorious. I'm addicted to this game.
Would love to see a video on this year's version, particularly now that The Show has made its way to the Switch.
All that work making good assets, but then it's super obvious and robotic when animations switch during pitching.
Digital foundry causing FANBOY Chaos online....
They like to stir the pot a little lol
I'm glad they're covering the show. Maybe sony don't will actually fix this game that looks awful and runs terrible too. It's been this way for years
For a few seconds I thought I was on National Geographic, narrating how a hungry Xbox was preying on an unaware PlayStation
The big difference between old gen & new gen versions of the game for the end user that isn’t performance related is new gen only gets the build a stadium feature.
That stadium can be used in the online Diamond Dynasty (MUT/My Team equivalent) mode, as long as you keep the stadium within certain guidelines.
Not gonna lie, I kinda love seeing the playstation studio on xbox. It's cool to see xbox fans enjoy the quality ps studio games. I'm sure sony wouldn't have done this without the Mlb haha
agree, xbox move to put it in game pass was a low hit, lol.
@@ivanleon6164 I think the gamepass move was meant to be a low blow for sure, but I know sony wouldnt have done this without the Mlb. Sports games being multiplat doesn't bother me too much
@@SpencersStuffTV Lol... many PS "Exclusives" like Horizon are going to PC....
@@SpencersStuffTV it's not a PlayStation ip but it's dam near the closest we get lol
@@nonservium8358 yh a half ass port...
NiEr ver. 123456789 please 🤣❤️ - love your work guys - keep it up!!
Im playing it its kinda unsharp i feel like its only base xbox one and no enhancements were made at all
Yes, please, DF. There's no native current gen version, so I need to see how the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X versions compare before I decide which version to pick up.
@@SanjiSmutje Somebody counted the pixels and said the ps5 version (I guess PS4 pro version) was 1080p. Maybe both Xbox One X and PS4 pro are both 1080p then, and by extension the PS5 and XSX will be identical. This could be wrong though, it would be nice to get some confirmation!
@@brewski535 xb series will be better than since backwards games load faster on xb
@@SanjiSmutje very possibly, like I said though I'm not sure how accurate this information is.
as a european human beeing i can proudly say that i didnt know these games even existed.
£70 for a yearly sports game is madness.
They have to make money somehow. Hardly anyone buys them :O
@@xAKIMBOCURLYx Probably because they are not worth that much when they are obsolete within 1 year. A vicous cycle.
@@xAKIMBOCURLYx Fifa and Madden are often two of the top selling games every year
Here, people are buying NBA2k every year. Willing to pay $1000 for PS5 just to play the next gen NBA2K21.
@@xAKIMBOCURLYx Because they never add value to them...
This looks like Heavy Rain, but they really love baseball.
Is Richard's voice balanced slightly to the right?
I'm glad I played this on Xbox because I played it for 15 minutes
Same lol... didn't expect it to be that boring.
Gotta love baseball!
Paid nothing to know I didn’t like it. While a PlayStation gamer would spend $70-80 to have buyers remorse.
That alone is a plus for gamepass.
@@skyycam i don't know man, i don't like soccer and yet playing Fifa is not that bad! And Mario Baseball is pretty fun on the gamecube lol.. i know one is kiddy game and the other is a sim but you gotta make it fun.
@@hELLLcs its baseball. have you never watch or played baseball?
thanks from one of your American Patreon subscribers. I've tested on Xbox One S, and let me tell you..... it's rough. you would have a bounty of "yikes" data if you re-ran tests on base consoles, methinks.
Not a fan of baseball…but watched it to the end because of Rich 🙃
0:48 "I paid 75£ of my own money [...]" cut to the Catcher scratching his balls.
Y’all gonna do a video on Enlisted? Looking forward to that
I dont think the fps drop on xbox is an engine issue, since its also faster on one x than ps4 pro, what this game shows is what weve seen already in most games ps5 is generally faster than series x on rasterised graphics, polygons, textures, alpha particles and what not.
PS5 is Holding back the performance advantages of Series X. These are Sony Developers, so they won’t and probably can not further develop the game higher on Series X then what the PS5 configuration is able to do due to contractual Sony obligations. It’s totally comparing apples and oranges. We all know this game can fully be optimized way better on Series X than PS5. It’s truly a dishonest justice to us gamers especially on Series X platform.
The game is 4k running with an unlocked framerate across all versions...lol at "holding back" with an UNLOCKED framerate? 60FPS is the only limit but XSX can't maintain that so...where's the holding part? You Can't fix stupid.
@@riceeater79 I know your pain “Riceeater79” 😆😆 (Love the Name) . The truth hurts but not gonna debate with you on this. There’s enough videos on RUclips to support my argument. BTW, didn’t anyone tell you eating too much rice isn’t healthy these days.
Wish Sony made a cricket game at this level of quality :(
only you would play it
@@antwango I think you'll find every indian with a next gen console would buy it
I have never played a baseball game before (boring) but I must say the crowd animation is amazing. I almost lost it when I see the beer cooler guy walking down the stairs in the crowd.
Its actually a fun game
No lie but that beer cooler guy give me 2K vibes🙄🙄😭😭😭
What timestamp does the cooler guy appear in?
@@offspringfan89 start at 1:11
For me Baseball is fun to play but hell to watch.
Rich’s narration sounds like he belongs on the documentary series planet earth!
Digital Foundry: "Sony's first multi-plat game"
Sony games on Steam & EGS: "Am I a joke to you?"
How is it that the PS4 Pro can do 1440p yet the XSS can’t?
Did Rich even look at the resolution modes on the XSX. I can confirm those setting are there on the XSX. But he said they was not at 4:40.
It's kind of insane how the graphics in this have basically reached photo-realistic quality
It's surreal.
We're getting so close.
Sucks that they didn't do the same with Fifa21 and NBA2k21
@@marcianomorisson2542 To be fair, that’s an EA and 2K issue. Those two don’t care nearly as much.
@@thawkade Watch as many fans boycott fifa 22 and 2k22 as they fall way below expectations
@@lfcobrikom5612 I sure hope, I don't really play sports games but I hate how low effort they've become.
Santa Monica on the xbox dev kit : 😔😭
I play on a ps4 slim and I'm pretty sure it doesn't run at 60hz
Visually looks like it should be locked 60 on the current gen stuff but it is nowhere near that
Please tell us how you managed to get the game you made to stay locked at 60fps.
All we need is the older Halo games appearing on Nintendo Switch with the "Microsoft Studios" logo.
Guys!...Returnal! Come on!
When it comes to baseball I come to Rich for all the ins and out of this majestic sport.
Take it away Rich!
Let's see what the experts say in the comments
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"So how did this happen?"
I'd like to answer that with another question.
Does it have lootboxes/card packs?
It has card packs, yes.
Sure does. Game is ate up with micro transactions. Nothing new though been that way for years
Man animation work is simply incredible
4:19 Secretly disappointed that he didn't play a clip of Kershaw plunking the batter when he said "that takes a hit, too."
inb4 "Sony crippled the Xbox version"
Yeh haha people need to leave their tinfoil hats at home
Yeah I may be an Xbox fanboy but if there's anything holding back the performance on Xbox, I highly doubt it would be Sony intentionally doing it. It'd most likely be due to, yknow, Sony developing it? Since they wouldn't exactly be used to developing on the Xbox, it's not hard to believe they simply don't know how to squeeze as much power out of the XSX as, say, IO Interactive, who made Hitman 3 which runs better on XSX. And even then it's still so early in the generation to really tell which case will be the norm - whether PS5, or XSX, will generally run multiplats better. Hitman 3 could be the start of XSX running more games better or it could just be an anomaly, things still aren't very clear.
@@ronnieradon PS5 GPU has a 20% higher triangles per second/rasterization peak and culling rate compared to XSX besides other advantages. 18% theoretical compute lead of XSX is not everything contrary to current narrative. I personally don't consider XSX GPU to be more powerful. One should look at specs at a deeper level to understand the current situation. Assuming XSX is more powerful JUST because of it's slight GPU advantage and ignoring everything else is the reason why so many so called tech heads look dumb when these games keep coming out where PS5 has the advantage.
The funny thing about this game is that you can also play the PS4 version on PS5 at 4k/mostly 60 fps. You just won't get the haptic feedback or stadium creator.
I know of some people, and I might start doing it myself, who are starting to do this simply because they are sick of seeing opponents' horrible custom stadiums in online play.
It was surprising to me that the game was exclusive in the first place. I am not a fan of sim baseball but I did try the game on Series X, Gamepass. Thought it was fine. As a multi-console gamer I say put the games on as many platforms as possible. Better for all gamers.
So... Does the game supports Quick Resume and VRR on Series X?
Sony could never release a game on Xbox with features not available on PlayStation! That would be brand suicide!
@@4kking966 just asking if the features are hardware-based so somehow automatically available.
@@nabieladrian VRR works with all titles but Quick Resume does not.
Quick Resume works. Just used it right now.
Dude it's hard af to bat lol. Anyhow MLB2021 on my Series X playing on my Sony x90h is absolutely beautiful
😱🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😍🤤
It is I suck can't get homer
It's recommended by all the top players who play mlb to play it on a monitor because of input lag and a lower millisecond response time compared to most game modes on TVs.
@@cordellboss i have a 5ms monitor and i was terrible up until today
Go to practice mode It helps a lot. Also check your difficulty as that affects hitting as well.
@@MARxBLADE01 I'm on lowest can go just can't seem get my timing right
Why the xbox version looks wider? Does use a different aspect ratio?
This was low-key a Sony advertisement campaign on Microsoft Xbox
.. especially considering that you get the game on xbox as part of the Gamepass subscription and you have to pay $ 70 + for it on Playstation
This is MLB who got pissed off by Sony
I'm truly confused!!! Can someone please explain to me why the Xbox One X is running MLB The Show at a higher resolution than the Xbox Series X?
Richard, you nailed this. Thank you. Fun to see. I’m glad more people get to enjoy The Show. Loving it on PS5.
Lol you had to buy it😂
@@DaPopester1 gladly! I love SD Studio and will always support them. I got a PS5 so it makes sense. Not switching platform for one game. Do you play? Who is your favorite team?
@@bradleythatcher2869 lol I was joking no worries but I like the Tampa Bay Rays, hbu?
This game is made so well, that made me understand baseball and have so much fun with it. The option to choose your controls is fantastic. Every baseball players stats from what I can see, matters. You can clearly see how much they change when batting, pitching or even fielding. Awesome animations with realistic models. Probably the best baseball game ever made, but it's my first one and on Gamepass! Loving it on my XsX.
So Sony focused primarily on the Playstation versions, and just got Xbox up and running. But I don't get how a game that looks like that, perform so poorly across every console...
I mean Playstation is what they've known for over two decades. They are a smaller studio and went from developing for two consoles to seven in one year. PS4, Pro, PS5, XSX, XSS, X1X, XB1
Give it time post launch. Let them iron things out.
yeah like many other games that run better on ps5 lol
@@tommybull6578 I don't care about your childish console war. One of the great things about owning both systems is I can buy games on both and avoid ending up like you, fighting the good fight over some plastic box they think is better than the other plastic box.
@@MikeBisonTX Yeah I guess that could be the case. The game just looks like a last gen game not pushing any boundaries. So it's surprising the performance is tanking like that even on PS5/XSX.
Maybe because this is the studio's first attempt at a multiple platform title, might have something to do with it...
How are we not at the point where the interstitials can't also run at 60fps? Screenshots won't look as good on the box, I guess.
Great intro DF. Love how you pulled the Xbox menu onto the screen. 👍🏾
This game is the most photorealistic videogame I've ever seen in my life. My mind was fooled more than once that I was watching real baseball players on the field. My goodness, kudos to the devs.
After a few updates this will be one of the smoothest sports games out there, especially with how many consoles it spans across. Pretty damn good job on all sides ladies and gents. 🍻
No lie we all win😁😁😁
@@IDieGaming89 Hell yeah man! 👌
Hello, will you be doing a showcase for Nier Replicant that just released? I want to see the differences between the consoles. Thanks!
Where is It takes two?
It’s a co-op only game? I imagine the guys at DF don’t have many people to play with
@@spenny2cents They have each other.
@@Alexp37 true! Would make for a great episode to see their gameplay together
Any idea when the Judgement PS5/XboxSx comparison will be up? Still holding on before going out shopping for it 😊
Consonle war in the comment section in 3...2....1 GO!!
It’s absolutely horrible
@@alvin5585 what side are u with ??
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@@davidsomoza i love xbox but Playstation is the goat
why is this game so difficult to run? Is it really the crowd animations causing that?
So PS5 STOMPS SX Once again, same settings, same res, no VRS on SX, 10.3 Tflops RDNA2+>>>>>>>12TFLOPS RDNA+Fake Baked in RT.
Lmao these comments
It runs at 4k on series x and 1080p on ps5 what are you talking about?
Yeah like Sony turned round and said they're forcing us to do a SX version lets make it better, they probably don't even have an SX dev kit, most likely just ported straight over
@@Shaker1000 4K60 on PS5, 4K40fps on SX
I wonder if playing the OneX in 1440p on XSX via BC mantains 60fps.
I would think so. Not fully sure tho
Wow! They finally got PS2 backwards compatibility working!
What? This best looking sports game next to 2K
So is this a resolution issue causing drops, or a programming issue causing drops? Cause this game doesn't even come close to pushing the next Gen hardware to the max... Doesn't make sense.
I think Playstation players shouldn't be surprised if there will be more reports of disruptions in Minecraft from next week
Why? Because Sony made a really good baseball game for Xbox?
Huh
I kinda hoped to see Rich do the prior-gen versions back compat on the new consoles, as at least from what my eyes have assumed, those frame rate drops on cutscenes are almost non-existent, even on Sharper mode.
You're the first person on the the internet I've seen talk about this and yes sir you are absolutely correct
If it plays better on Series X, I swear that'll be the funniest thing ever .
Imagine having a theoretical ~20% hardware advantage and not having the games perform better.
Yikes. I didn't see the video, but yeahhhhh.
@@Disco_Potato this was done on purpose it’s obvious 😂
@@Disco_Potato imagine being ignorant? Couldn't be me
@@Disco_Potato yet, get ready update inbound
@6:45 We saw the exact same in many third party games and as a reference i can name your own videos Digital Foundry ! Sometimes i think you guys are drunk. We LITERALLY saw the same in many next gen games, come on guys. Its not because its a Sony made game
I played it yesterday but same as you, i'm English, not a big fan of baseball so I got by 72GB of space back for something else.
Dayum!
What happened to next gen compression tools. All these game comingout with massive sizes.
At this rate even indies will be 30+gb on ps5
@@tatienouorest3358 He didn't say he was on PS5, in fact sounds more like he was using the game on gamepass to me.
@@tatienouorest3358
He's definitely not referring to the PS5 version of the game. The PS5 version is only 59gbs.
@@corey_massey Yeah it's 72GB on xbox. That's a curious thing that it's smaller on PS5. Thougt that was pretty obvious as a non-baseball fan no way would I have paid money for it lol.
@@xAKIMBOCURLYx
Just a note, the vast majority of third party games are smaller on PS5 than Series X. PS5 uses Kraken compression and decompression technology and when used in conjunction with the PS5 I/O solution it allows for large texture files to occupy less space on the storage drive. I don't pretend to fully understand what or how any of that works but that explanation is taken straight from Mark Cerney's Road to PS5 presentation when he explained why Sony chose the smaller SSD memory and odd numbered allotment of storage memory.
Why u dont tell what resoultion is on XSS? I playing this game on XSS and its looks so bad like 900p compared to PS5...