MLB The Show steps on the board for the first time on Xbox. This year’s edition, MLB The Show 21, will be available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S on April 20th. Better yet, the game has cross-play and cross-progression support, allowing Xbox and PlayStation players to face each other on the field.
Late in 2019, it became apparent that the franchise would expand to non-PlayStation consoles as early as this year. San Diego Studio will show off MLB The Show 21‘s new features in a series of Feature Premiere videos, the first of which will be released in March.
On the downside is the standard edition of MLB The Show 21 will be more expensive on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S than PS4 and Xbox One. There’s no free upgrade path for the standard edition, which costs $ 60 on PS4 and Xbox One, and $ 70 on PS5 and Xbox Series X / S.
With the collector’s edition, you can play in both console generations, which can be useful if you have a PS5 in your living room and a PS4 in your bedroom. Details of the collector’s issue will be announced on Wednesday.
This will be the first time PlayStation Studios has released one of its games on a competitor’s consoles. The company brought Horizon Zero Dawn last year to a computer and said it could do the same with other first-party PlayStation games.