Xbox Game Pass: the first PlayStation game comes to day one

As has been rumored for some time, Sony is about to kick off ad support Xbox Game Pass, a service that we could consider as an official competitor of the PlayStation Now. The next April 20 2021In fact, MLB The Show 21, San Diego Studio, will arrive from day one on the Game Pass. The series, being part of the stable PlayStation Studios, until today it has always been a 'PlayStation exclusive.

We are pleased to announce that MLB The Show 21 will arrive on Xbox Game Pass on day one, and will be available on April 20 for Xbox Series X / S and Xbox One, as well as on Android phones and tablets via Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) for members. Ultimate. Be MLB The Show 21 Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S Standard Edition will be included with Xbox Game Pass so members can play the best version of the game regardless of which console they own.

As announced by the same American company, the game will be available on both Xbox Game Pass for consoles and the cloud. The official announcement came directly from Senior Vice President of the MLB: for this very reason, we would like to speculate that they have been in talks with Microsoft products to allow this partnership to materialize, rather than a choice made in the first instance by Sony itself. MLB The Show 21 will support, from launch to day one, both cross-play and cross-save. In this way we will be able to save our progress regardless of the platform on which we will play it.

At the moment, we do not know if this landing will lead to subsequent exchanges of titles between the two video game giants. In any case, the news of the arrival of a PlayStation game on Xbox Game Pass opens the way to several possibilities for the future of the next gen. All owners of Sony consoles, in fact, will have to pay full price for a title that will arrive “free” on the Microsoft service. The Phil Spencer he said he was enthusiastic about this new entry in the title team Xbox, and we can be sure that it will not be the latest arrival from the "competition".

I'm excited to see @MLBTheShow debuting on Xbox consoles this year. Today we announced it will also be available on @XboxGamePass at launch on April 20, allowing this great game to reach even more fans than ever before. https://t.co/F1mGZKEhro

- Phil Spencer (@ XboxP3) April 2, 2021