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Heck, do we even need a new baseball game on the 360 next year? As a thought exercise, it raises more questions than it answers. I was asked the question on the latest Press Row Podcast, gave a quick answer, and even after pondering it further I still don't know what baseball fans' response will be. What the reaction will be to an Xbox 360 without a new baseball game next year, I really don't know. There was a very brief reckoning with what that meant gamers quickly understood that these series, no matter their quality, didn't sell very well because they followed the NBA simulation products by one month, and most folks are interested in college basketball only enough to follow it in one month, March.

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The last time we had a series cancellation anywhere near the scope of the one coming, it was when EA Sports decided to pull the plug on its NCAA Basketball series in 2010.

Mlb 2k12 pc 2018 roster license#

Thanks to the premium paid by previous management for an exclusive license that wasn't really exclusive, the title was blamed for a $30 million loss in Take-Two Interactive's 2K Sports label, though NBA 2K's phenomenal performance wiped that out and made the entire division profitable. MLB 2K has long been marked for death, even if its parent company never officially confirmed the kill. But the game isn't getting another patch, isn't getting any official roster updates, isn't getting official anything. Assuming 2K Sports doesn't pull the plug on online support for MLB 2K12 (or isn't forced to, for some reason, when the terms of its deal expire), then user-edited rosters may still be shared, and I'm sure there will be many uploaded next spring. There will be no baseball on the Xbox 360 next year. The long-underperforming MLB 2K series is done for, which made this past week's details about MLB 13 The Show significant, not for what they say about a game that will come out, but for forcing gamers to confront the reality of one that won't. Next year it won't have any, in name or otherwise. The Show has had no serious competition for five years. The first week after Thanksgiving is typically when MLB The Show's publicity machine rolls out the first screenshots and begins teasing upcoming details for the game, and right on schedule we got them this past week.