MLB The Show 22
MLB The Show 22 is a PlayStation 5 sports game developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It centers on sport controls, shifts between attack and defense, and score or tournament goals, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.9 / 10
About this game
MLB The Show 22 is a PlayStation 5 sports game centered on sport controls, shifts between attack and defense, and score or tournament goals. Matches, challenges, and tournament goals give sessions clear boundaries, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Players, venues, animation, and score feedback establish the match atmosphere, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that opponent ai, control precision, multiplayer accessories, and period-specific rosters can affect consistency. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
MLB: The Show turns baseball’s pitch-by-pitch decisions into a mix of batting, pitching, fielding and longer-term team building. Across the series, you can develop a player’s career, manage a franchise or assemble a roster through player cards.
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AI review
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Detailed baseball fundamentals remain strong despite conservative iteration.
Batting discipline and fielding precision make small decisions matter throughout a match. The fundamentals are familiar, but they support sustained attention to pitchers, hitters and the changing situation on the field. Career appearances and full-team seasons support different session lengths with local saves. Older trade logic and familiar career structure remain, so the breadth of options should not be mistaken for equally fresh design. New commentators change the sound of a match, but repeated lines quickly reduce variety. Courtside detail remains functional rather than especially fresh, leaving the sporting contest stronger than its surrounding visual presentation. The PS5 test confirms additional difficulty levels and expanded practice tools. Those support learning in offline play; historical cross-platform functionality is not being presented as a guarantee of current service availability.
Strengths
- Offline modes cover individual and team progression.
Weaknesses
- Career structure and commentary repeat.
Who it is for: Baseball players focused on offline careers or team seasons.
Play notes: Based on the dated target-platform build; later patches and expansions are not automatically included.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Career appearances and full-team seasons support different session lengths with local saves. Older trade logic and familiar career structure remain, so the breadth of options should not be mistaken for equally fresh design. | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Batting discipline and fielding precision make small decisions matter throughout a match. The fundamentals are familiar, but they support sustained attention to pitchers, hitters and the changing situation on the field. | Reviewed | 8.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension New commentators change the sound of a match, but repeated lines quickly reduce variety. Courtside detail remains functional rather than especially fresh, leaving the sporting contest stronger than its surrounding visual presentation. | Reviewed | 7.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The PS5 test confirms additional difficulty levels and expanded practice tools. Those support learning in offline play; historical cross-platform functionality is not being presented as a guarantee of current service availability. | Reviewed | 8.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Sony Interactive
- Publisher
- Sony Interactive
- Release date
- Apr 5, 2022
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Sports · Primary genre
- Tags
- 3D GraphicsReplayableLow Entry BarrierPlayer versus PlayerShort SessionsSolo-friendlyFast-pacedSports-based PlayPick-up and PlayMain Story Under 10 Hours
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single playerMultiplayer
- Perspectives
- Top-downThird personFirst person
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideApr 5, 2022
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideApr 5, 2022
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Sources
- www.nintendo.com