After years on PlayStation, MLB The Show hits Xbox Game Pass at launch

That "PS Studios" logo on an Xbox retail box still looks a bit weird...

It has been over a year now since Sony first announced it would be bringing the previously PlayStation-exclusive series MLB The Show to Xbox as early as 2021. Today, Microsoft announced even better news for Xbox-owning baseball fans: MLB The Show 21 will be included with an Xbox Game Pass subscription the day it launches on April 20.

The move means that over 18 million Game Pass subscribers will have free access to the game on Xbox One and the Xbox Series X/S, or on Android phones via xCloud streaming. That creates a bit of an awkward situation for PlayStation owners, who will have to pay individually for a Sony San Diego-developed and Sony-published game that many Xbox subscribers will get for free.

That's especially notable because Sony has its own subscription service, PlayStation Now, which is not getting MLB The Show on launch day (as of now, at least). Then again, PlayStation Now has famously struggled to compare to Game Pass's "day one" bluster for a while now, especially when it comes to first-party software. Sony's recent "Play From Home" initiative and the PlayStation Plus Collection have opened up access to some Sony-published titles recently, but these too have revolved around dated software.

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