As always, you can micromanage how your team operates, or you can simply let the computer do it all for you while you focus on playing baseball. With options for native output to 4K HDR, and some of the most detail ever put into individual scans of real-world player likenesses, equipment, and animations, MLB The Show 20 feels like it’s just begging to be played on a PlayStation 5.įranchise mode, where you run your own team just the way you want, is still one of the highlights of this series, so it’s disappointing so little has changed this year.
Whenever I watched a team take their victory lap in the rain, for instance, my PS4 Pro began to sound like a jet engine on a runway.
Even on “Faster” mode on PS4 Pro, which claims a ‘stable’ 1080p image, you may experience infrequent frame drops in moments when a lot of players are on the screen at once. “Graphics and animations look just a bit sharper this year, but it’s definitely beginning to feel like Sony San Diego is pushing the upper limit of what the PS4 and even the PS4 Pro are capable of.
Just as in MLB The Show 19, you can customize your PCI in any way you’d like, making it truly your own for the best results. That makes the Plate Coverage Indicator a potentially deadly weapon during at-bats, because you can use your own skill in combination with your batter’s skill to make those precision home runs. But it finally adds some much-desired variety in ways to progress through the excellent Diamond Dynasty card collection mode, expanded customization for its addictive Franchise mode, and further gameplay tweaks to improve what was already one of the best, most dynamic baseball simulations we’ve seen to date.One of the best gameplay tweaks this year is that perfect contact and perfect timing on batter hits leads to hard-earned ‘Perfect-Perfect’ hits, which let batters get more involved by rewarding you with higher-quality content that will lead to more home runs, line drives, or hot-shot grounders (a higher BABIP, basically). So it’s a good thing it’s great, as usual! That said, this is an annual franchise, and this year’s version isn’t as much of an improvement over last year’s impressive MLB The Show 19 as we’ve seen in big years in the past. Considering the real MLB has recently delayed its 2020 season, MLB The Show 20 literally is the closest you’ll get to real pro baseball for a while.