MLB 08: The Show – Today is Opening Day!

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The grass is cut, the infield’s manicured and the lines are chalked. The boys of summer are back and it’s time to “PLAY BALL!” MLB 08: The Show officially hits store shelves today for the PS3, PS2 and PSP.

In celebration of the start of the 2008 baseball season, we’ve got a new Opening Day trailer for you:

If that wasn’t enough for you, or if you haven’t seen what all the hype is all about, be sure to click to www.mlb08theshow.com and check out recent vids from what ESPN The Magazine says is “the most realistic baseball game ever created.” MLB 08 The Show: Nothing gets you closer.

Dig in and swing for the fences…

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  • I dislike watching baseball. But you know, had so much fun with the demo that I may just pick this sonuvagun up!

  • Getting the team I follow the most, the White Sox and I have to say Sony you guys did a good job to get me to purchase a baseball game since this is my first one since my Sega Game Gear. :D

    Oh guys the rules on the baseball cap http://www.neweracap.com/mlb08theshow/rules.cfm

    It’s for the PS3 version only so if you got the PS2/PSP version then you don’t get the $20 Baseball Cap.

  • Congrats on a great game. I have never…EVER..played the single-player mode in a sports game. The Road to the Show is the first time a mode like that has captured my interest. Well played sir, well played.

    Can you give out free phantom cards for Eye of Judgment instead of a cap?

    • Sorry… caps only for the time being. Besides, you can\’t start a new season in an old lid anyway, right?

  • This is the greatest baseball game on the market and sounds like it is amazing on the PS3. Unfortunately I am very disappointed with the PS2 version. The gameplay is no different from last years game and I don’t know why but it seems like somebody at Sony just randomly created a hybrid rockies jersey: purple vest with black underneath. Very disappointing why couldn’t they put both the purple jersey and the black jersey in the game? This really takes away some realism, especially considering the ZERO amount of respect given to the Rockies in the game in general. 14th overall? For the National League Champions? Plus Todd Heltons stance has been a joke for years in the game I have to change it to Vlad’s and Hawpe, Tulo, and Francis’s pitching style are also terrible. There are still many glitches in this year’s version that have not been looked at from last year. These may seem like miniscule issues to most people but really kill the game for me. I am still yet to try RTS 2.0 so I still have some hope, but it is very possible I return this game and save my money for a PS3 so I can get a game that the developers actually care about!

  • i liked the demo on this game i went to rent it the other day it was in but the they wouldnt let me rent it cause the barcode was wrong and ive heard bad things withc im not likeing i heard the save a replay wont work the in game music doesen’t save also i heard u cant play single player if the internet is hooked up thats stupid

  • What’s up with certain routers causing the game to freeze at start menu (Belkin, Linksys) ?

    • The only issue I\’d heard of about freezing was a point where our IT/PD groups were deploying additional servers to handle all of the traffic. This was a launch day exercize and should be a non-issue at this point. With regard to specific routers (i.e. Belkin and Linksys), I haven\’t heard a word. I personally use Linksys and have never had an issue.

  • @55

    You can’t save replays. it’s not that it doesnt work, it isn’t there.
    You CAN save playlists, whoever told you otherwise is wrong.
    Some people were having issues with the servers, most likely due to first day load. I personally had zero problems getting into the game while connected.

  • I am so excited to get this game. RTTS is the best thing in sports games to me. The whole concept is gold. Little broke right now though.

  • Thank you SCEA and San Diego Studios for such a great game!

    Bought it yesterday and I’ve spent hours loving every little detail:

    -Editing ANY player(BIG PLUS)
    -The stadiums look sick
    -The faces are out of this world….
    -The animations are fluid, you never see retarded collisions or dumb plays by the AI.
    -The jukebox’s crazy lol, love it
    -Online’s fine, just take out that guessing thing, it really ruins the flow of the pitching/batting, some people take a long time and drag out their at bats with that, it also causes A LOT of slowdown.

    Anyway overall 9.5/10, this game’s sick!

    Again, thank you so much!

    PS: The New Era cap thingy’s such a nice bonus, you guys are the best!

  • Does YOUR mlb08theshow have graphic jerks or unsmoothness when it makes a certain graphic change like posting between-inning upcoming batters or moving to the next on=deck batter, etc? or did i do something wrong? if not, could i have “corrupted teh data” somehow and can a person correct that?

    thanks for your response.

  • how can a “corrupt your data” situation be remedied? thanksl.

    • Are you getting an actual error that says something to this effect? Please confirm and pass along the exact error. From there I can either have an answer for you or point you in the right direction with our Customer Service group.

  • My son bought the game yesterday but it was freezing the PS3 right after setting up his profile and hitting the start button. He took the game back and got another one. same issue so he asked me to check. After a bit of research online, I find issues with Belkin router and sure enough, we have one. Model F5D7230-4 wireless G router. I unplugged it and then was able to get past the start screen so I plugged it back in. I could navigate the menus but as soon as I went to “launch online”, it froze again and can’t get past it or exit game – must shut down PS3 completely with button in back. Don’t believe it has anything to do with the unexpected network traffic. Please help, he is very disapointed and can’t just return the game for something else once it is opened.

  • I have a minor problem that hopefully someone can help with. I have a bunch of music on my psp and when I go to create a new playlist with the my ‘mlb music feature’, it tells me that it can’t find any files on my memory stick duo. I’ve listened to the songs on my psp before, so I know they work. All my songs are through itunes, but that shouldn’t be a problem, should it? I don’t know what’s the problem, but I would like to fix it. Thanks for anyone who helps.

  • Man I can get the game til the 13th (birthday) each day is killing me!!!!! thank you for this great! game have been playing since 06 (idk If you guys are related to MLB 2006 either, I played that and saw it was very similar)

  • Great game. This is the reason I bought my ps3. I’m far from disappointed. I’m addicted!

  • How come we can’t get this freezing error corrected. It was the same problem last year!!! I have a belkin router, and the screen freezes at the same point as it did during last years version. This is ridiculous!! I went into my router and opened up all the ports that Sony recommends TCP and UDP, and still nothing.

    “tmack” this is a problem, google the following : “mlb 08 the show belkin”. You will see how many people have this same problem!!

    If it’s the router, you need to let us know, and maybe it will stop people from purchasing this game, as I would have because I’m not about to go and get a new router right now.

    HELP PLEASE

  • What’s up with the roster updates? I updated my rosters and guys like Hiroki Kuroda are still not in the game. He was signed by the Dodgers 3-months ago.

    • Players who have signed with Major League Teams aren\’t necessarily available for roster updates until they play their first Major League game. Spring Training games don\’t apply toward Major League service. But as soon as Opening Day rolls around and he sees his first inning of play – you should see him.

  • Why is there a 53 song limit on the songs you can select from your HDD to make a playlist with?

    I’m still trying to figure out why it doesn’t display my 100+ songs(HDD)

  • I’m just at a lost here. More of a catch 22. I’m a SP for the minor league Yankees that lacks in pitching skills. Of course training points will help me; however, I never can give credit to pitching attributes because it goes all to “achievement goals”. After a while, I end up playing games where on average. 44-100 tpg. because the opposing batters are taking me for a ride… Very frustrating to say the least. Now, I can’t even achieve my goals due to lack of points (sigh). Adding the cherry on top, Attributes decreases over a period of team. Isn’t that amazing? It would make since that “training points” can be accumulated in “practice” and not real games, but you lack a practice mode…Is there any tip that can help me get out of this situation?

  • I HAVE NOT BOUGHT A BASEBALL GAME IN A LONG TIME MY GIRLFREIND WONT PLAY A GAME BUT USE TO LOVE PLAYING HOMERUN DERBY JUST AS I DO WHY WAS NOT ONE INCLUDED??PERHAPS A DOWNLOAD ADDON COULD BE MADE AVALIBLE VERY SOON MY GIRL WOULD BE EXTREMELY HAPPY THANKS.

  • I’m going to guess that this might not be seen (it’s been a few weeks since the last comment was posted), but just in case…

    There is a thread on the MLB08 board — http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=mlb2007&thread.id=3243 — detailing a bug that I (and a number of other people) have encountered as infielders in Road To The Show: namely, our players will throw to the wrong base every so often. Example: I play as a SS in RTTS, and there is a double play opportunity — so I hit “X” to throw to 2nd base — but, instead, my player throws home. Or, another time, I got to throw the ball to 1st (“Square”) to get the runner out — but, instead, my player flips it to the 3rd baseman.

    This will happen at least once every other game, sometimes multiple times a game. I love MLB08 — I’ve bought both the console and portable versions for the past three years — but this is the first time I’ve encountered a bug that dampens my enthusiasm for the game. RTTS is challenging enough, trying to get your player to the bigs — but when a glitch is adding an error to my player (and often costing our team the win) every other game, it’s dispiriting.

    Hopefully someone will see this — I couldn’t find any other location to submit a bug or and error. If this could be patched in an update, it would go along way towards renewing my faith in your otherwise fantastic game.

  • i’m on my third copy of this game. I sent one back to Sony and they sent me another one that didn’t work. How do we get them to fix this since I’m not the only one?

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