When Sony announced that MLB The Show would be coming to Xbox consoles, no one suspected that it was going to be a success for the game, which would see a good number of gamers loving the sport on Xbox. This also makes sense because the American console is the most suitable for the target user looking for this game, because at the end of the day baseball is an American sport and the Xbox is the ultimate American console.
But what no one expected was that the game, developed by Sony, would arrive on Game Pass, the Microsoft service which is an obvious competitor to Playstation Plus. This may all be due to the MLB deals
Reinforced visibility thanks to Game Pass
However, one piece of news that we didn’t even expect is that the playable base of the game would be much higher on Xbox consoles than on Playstation consoles. But where does this data come from? Well, first of all, it should be clarified that they are based on the Truetrophies collection, a Playstation account tracker which represents user activity. If you’re coming from Xbox, you’ll be familiar with Trueachievements, which basically offers stats and guides for Xbox games based on users who sign up for the service.
Truetrophies ha extrapolated your data with its sister site Trueachievements, and has a sample of over 3 million active PlayStation accounts and over 2.4 million active Xbox accounts, which represents a good sample of users and validates the analysis, which , I emphasize, is indicative.
When we adjusted the data to account for the total sample size difference, MLB The Show 23 was played by 6.8 times more players on Xbox consoles than on PS5 and PS4. While it should be noted that our PlayStation sample may be slightly biased towards the European market, the quantitative value of this sample set is more than sufficient to make it a valid comparison.
In total, we’re talking about a 6 to 1 difference between Xbox and PS5, which gives an idea of the game’s potential to be cross-platform. Of course MLB The Show 23 is on Game Pass contributed a lot to making this happen.
This data unequivocally translates into increased revenue for Sony, as it is they who take all the profits from Diamond Dynasty mode. Likewise, even assuming the proportion is somewhat inaccurate, the difference will still be significant.
