Please spread the word to other devs who may not know that lack of 1080 support if preventing people from buying certain games:

http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3&thread.id=1543693&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

And speaking of custom players, will the game support the PS Eye? And will custom players still be called “NUMBER 17″ or will a full name be possible?

@ juanleche RE: 1080i/p support
Yes, we support both 1080i/p as well as 720p and 480i/p – so no matter what kind of TV you have you’ll be able to play.

@ lyfestory RE: Player inner penetration
This is a difficult issue to do and do well without impacting how the game plays. It is absolutely a feature that we are working towards.

@free
We thought about making online even harder to get working this year, but instead we went ahead and fixed it. Voice chat is in and working, the connection issue is fixed (was fixed in a patch for ‘07) and if we play our cards right, it wont even be broken on release! We actually planned it that way last year, you guys didnt enjoy it?! ;)

@ cmargary & moshakirby
I want Play TV too… however this is the wrong thread for that – I know absolutely nothing about it. Perhaps someone else will see this question and help you out

@chase
Yes, you can create custom soundtracks to listen to in the FE as well as in the post game menu.

@S StalkingSilence
I cant answer you 100% on this as I dont personally handle the animation system. That said, we try and fit as much of our improvement in every area on each platform. The last thing we want to do is ship a roster update for PS2/P every year.

As for developing features that are “PS3 centric” we’ve already done that this year. Quite a few items just arent possible on the PS2 because of the memory use they take up. For example: Custom Playlists, Replay Vault, box scores for every game throughout a season, play by play game log, etc, etc… This is of course on top of the improved graphics, audio and animations.

@Scarecrow
Yes we can and will be expanding on our multiplayer options in the future.

Glad you guys are pumped for the game!

-Kolbe

One question though. I read you can import music. Does this mean you can set certain music to play when homeruns are hit/created plare walks up to the box/game is won?

I’ve been dying to have a baseball game play Zombie Nation when a home run is hit.

Thank you Sony for taking me away from the ugly grasps of 2K and their horrible MLB 2K games.

Seriously, having bought MLB 99 back in 1998 I’m so happy to once again be back on the ship.

Everything looks so beautiful…..so personalized, so TRUE TO LIFE.

Love how Lowell slides sideways like he does in real life and how Howard hits his homers like in real life.

Man, can’t wait to see Hideki Matsui and some of my favorite Yankees!

The Stadiums are looking insane too….they really feel like they have LIFE to them. Hope we get a trailer highliting that. The only game where I could truly say “the crowd is into it” was Ken Griffey Junior’s MLB game on N64…and since then there’s been on game which has done it so well.

By the way Chris, think you guys can expand on multiplayer options? You know co-op(same team) and more than 2 players? I’d really love to see co-op in this game….would make playing with my brothers so much funner.