MLB The Show 24
MLB The Show 24 is a PlayStation 5 sports game developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It centers on competitive 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
- 8.2 / 10
About this game
MLB The Show 24 is a PlayStation 5 sports game centered on competitive 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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Historical storytelling broadens a familiar baseball foundation.
Batting retains a mature foundation while new defensive animations connect catches and throws. Executing a strong play is rewarding, though some highlighted actions rely on simple prompts rather than a deeper new system. Jeter and Negro Leagues stories give individual match goals historical meaning, while a female career broadens perspective. Familiar season structures remain, making authored stories the clearest source of new interest for returning players. Interviews and archival material give ordinary baseball objectives a human context. Historical sequences are especially engaging, although dated surface and character detail keep the wider presentation from matching that narrative care consistently. The PS5 test finds clear tactile batting feedback and polished menu transitions. That supports repeated matches in the reviewed build, without guaranteeing present online rewards, population or server conditions.
Strengths
- Historical stories give match objectives emotional meaning.
Weaknesses
- Core structure and some visual detail remain dated.
Who it is for: Players interested in baseball history and offline matches.
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 Jeter and Negro Leagues stories give individual match goals historical meaning, while a female career broadens perspective. Familiar season structures remain, making authored stories the clearest source of new interest for returning players. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Batting retains a mature foundation while new defensive animations connect catches and throws. Executing a strong play is rewarding, though some highlighted actions rely on simple prompts rather than a deeper new system. | Reviewed | 8.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Interviews and archival material give ordinary baseball objectives a human context. Historical sequences are especially engaging, although dated surface and character detail keep the wider presentation from matching that narrative care consistently. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The PS5 test finds clear tactile batting feedback and polished menu transitions. That supports repeated matches in the reviewed build, without guaranteeing present online rewards, population or server conditions. | Reviewed | 8.3 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Sony Interactive
- Publisher
- Sony Interactive
- Release date
- Mar 19, 2024
- 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
- Sports-based PlayReplayable3D GraphicsSolo-friendlyLow Entry BarrierFast-pacedShort SessionsPick-up and PlayMain Story Under 10 HoursPlayer versus Player
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- MultiplayerSingle player
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideMar 19, 2024
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideMar 19, 2024
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Sources
- www.nintendo.com