Sports video games are some of the most popular year after year given the huge number of fans that move around the world. Soccer, basketball, football, and also baseball. Today we come to talk to you precisely about this last case. And it is that now we have known that MLB the Show 21 becomes the most successful game in the series after arriving for the first time on Xbox. It did so last April when it was not only the first PlayStation Studios title (it is developed by Sony San Diego) to reach Xbox consoles, but it also did so from the first day in Xbox Game Pass.
US NPD SW – MLB The Show 21 surpassed Resident Evil: Village to become the 2nd best-selling game of 2021. Year-to-date sales of MLB The Show 21 are the highest in franchise history.
– Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) August 13, 2021
Now, and thanks to the data provided by the industry analyst Mat Piscatella at NPD Group, we have learned to what extent this baseball video game has succeeded. And it is that Piscatella comments that MLB The Show 21 has already achieved outsold Resident Evil Village and has become the second best-selling video game of the year in the United States, so only behind Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War. In addition, as we mentioned previously, the title of Sony San Diego is already the most successful in franchise history, which confirms that it was a good decision to allow its launch on Xbox, beyond its arrival day one at Game Pass.
Analysis of MLB The Show 21
What this data shows us is that barriers between platforms are blurring every dayAs exemplified by the case at hand today, the launch of The Outer Worlds (from Obsidian, Xbox Game Studios studio) on other platforms or the arrival of console games on Steam and other PC services. In fact, Phil Spencer has never closed the door to Xbox Game Pass end up reaching other platforms, even a direct rival like PlayStation.