Franchise Mode has been a big part of MLB The Show ever since its induction, and we’re confident that this iteration is our best yet. We redid most of our core systems, such as Scouting, Training and Player Progression, shifting the mode’s main focus back to player development. We also improved our menu and added a ticker bar so that you feel more connected to what’s happening in your league. Go ahead and watch our video to see all of this in action.
Training is now done on an individual player basis, and it can be as simple or as complex as you want. You can go in and custom set training drills for every one of your players, or have the auto-trainer handle this for you. If you only want to set drills for a couple of your players and the rest set to auto, you can do that too.
Scouting has received a major overhaul. The main goal was to give it a “human element,” to mimic the fact that there are “busts” and “diamonds in the rough” in every draft class. The scouting system itself boils down to first discovering players, and then scouting them individually to get a more accurate report of their attributes and MLB ETA.
In an effort to add personality to each club, we’ve incorporated Team-Specific Player Valuations. These numbers are based on each team’s historical tendencies, their stadium and league. For example, teams from the AL will not value bunting as highly as teams from the NL, while certain teams like the Yankees will value on-base-percentage much more so than the average team. Teams with home stadiums that suppress power will tend to value speedy contact hitters over slower power hitters. These changes affect every facet of a team’s decision making process, from drafting, to promotions and demotions, to trade decisions and free agent acquisitions.
You’ll get to experience all of this, and more, when MLB 13 The Show is released on March 5th for both PlayStation 3 and PS Vita.
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Will this have cross-play and cross-buy?
Amazon is running the same deal as last year where you get $20 off the Vita version for buying the PS3 one and it together. Therefore, there’s no cross buy. Bad move, bad move!!! Swing and miss
It looks like you hit it out of the park(pun intended against my better judgement) with this years entry, but sadly I will not be purchasing. With God of War, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid, and Bioshock coming next month, I will not have money left for this. However, if there was an announcement about Cross Buy, I would get it instead of Metal Gear, but I don’t see that happening (whether it be a money issue with MLB, or Sony just deciding not too). Good luck in the new year, and go Rays and Cubs!
Now I just need all of this in an online franchise mode, please for MLB 14 and next gen
With no cross-buy I’m waiting until MLB 2014 for PS4 arrives. Still happy playing MLB12.
Good Stuff, loving the Franchise improvements very informative. I have one quick question for PS3/Vita Cloud save. Has the save feature improved to save to the cloud at any point in the game i.e. after batter or is it the same as last year?
Cloud Save functionality remains the same as last year.