This is also, surprisingly, a great call by Harry Caray.
You don't like it, don't read it. I've never understood everyone's need to show up and take the time to register their disinterest in something. We have more than 3 million different readers here at Kotaku. Some of them enjoy sports. This isn't your personal blog.
Boy, you said it.
Weekly, and they'll drop him if he does. They did for Carmelo in light of his injury.
Works as a hashtag for the Swimsuit edition too.
It's a forced perspective design. From anything other than that camera angle the end zone art looks distorted.
Waited for it, wasn't disappointed. Princess Leia, right after Adrian Pennino. Stings right between the eyes ...
It's certainly valid to point out that a payday attitude cares not for product quality. That could be the wildcard putting this nightmare scenario into effect. I'm sure the NFL and EA would love for MLB to kill the Show, it'd take Madden out of No. 1 pariah status for sure.
Translation: Irsay would pay Manning $28 million for him to retire--as a Colt--and make all of this go away.
But I think that confuses license for product, in terms of value. The value of The Show is its product quality, that is painfully clear to 2K Sports and Xbox 360 fans. Someone buying out Sony's MLB license would do better to acquire San Diego Studio and everything it makes, which is prohibitively cumbersome. I could not see MLB setting a price that's anywhere near manageable to Sony for having baseball all to itself as a system seller, though that is a fascinating concept.
The more I think about it, though, we may get baseball as a de facto exclusive on the PS3 in 2013. I just can't come up with any reasonable scenario in which this license changes hands to someone with the capital, the willingness, and the wherewithal to make a game, in a single year.
The irony is, as sports leagues are constantly complaining about the skyrocketing cost of labor, set in better economic times, a similar argument might be made back to them by video game publishers.
Who knows what really happens, but you do have me very curious to find out.
I understand your point of view, but considering MLB the Show is the only proven success story on this console generation, I can't imagine MLB would send it packing without an enormous premium paid. And if 2K Sports isn't making money on this game with a license causing $30 million annually in losses, why would EA Sports pay more? And furthermore, why would Sony bid for exclusivity on a single platform, given that the audience size on PS3 is at best the same and likely worse than the 360?
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love that guitar riff
Yeah, you WOULD find that hilarious, considering your name and stuff ...
The question is, who will develop the unisex crapinal?