MLB THE SHOW evolution [1996 - 2023] 

I always found it hilarious that the outfielders sometimes dashed toward the infield when a home run was hit in MLB '99 like they were coming to beat the crap out of the pitcher.

I’m sure a lot of kids look at 96 like it’s a joke, but I can remember being amazed with the graphics at the time, especially how much better it was then NES baseball games.

The transition from 04 to 05 was when you could see the beginning of the franchise/game we know today, awesome stuff! 🔥

The 5fps framerate on the last one 😭 lol

Bat sound effects have come a long way, they sound amazing this year, really makes a difference for the true baseball and show fans

soooo basically The Show has peaked

The evolution of the crowd is awesome.

One thing I miss from 06-09 era (idr when exactly) was the pitch recognition. Depending on the batters stats, the ball would flash a certain color based on what type of pitch it was. And some deliveries could hide it better naturally, and pitchers stats also combatted it. It was a great feature

The graphics are amazing, seeing the progression. If only the announcers saw the same leap

The graphics haven't really improved much in the last 10 years

I remember in MLB 07 in road to the show mode that if you took a huge lead off the pitcher would always throw to your base, so if you started running right away you would always be able to steal the base (even home plate)

MVP baseball 2003-2005 was the way to go 🙏🏻

It really is ridiculous how long they used Matt Vasgersian as a commentator lol

You can see the graphics really turn a corner around 08-09

MLB 98 & 99 will always be my fav... those games had the best most responsive infield controls IMO... diving for grounders and then turning double plays was so much fun.

Imagine how great 23 would be if Vin Scully were still around and doing the commentary.

They’re still using animations from 2010. Watch the outfield swing his arm in anger after the home run

In many ways the current game and starting with 2007 are very similar.

Was waiting for this one!

Ken Griffey Jr Baseball on the N64 is the best baseball game of all time.

0:09 Sheffield loved those high, high, high fastballs.

I played MLB 2005 alot as a kid. It looked really good for the time!

MLB the show 20 was so realistic! Did you hear the trash can before the Alvarez homerun?

Gameplay for 23 still needs improvement. Runners never run through first base on a bang bang play. 1st basemens need to stay on 1st to be able to try and throw out a runner from the outfield. Runners need to round first base, not stop at first when getting a hit. More realistic running routes need to be implemented. More plays need to be challenge-able! Some of the crowd should have baseball gloves as it is in real life. All home runs have balls getting caught barehanded. Background graphics need to be updated to make the ballpark more realistic, have cars in the parking lots and not empty lots. Have things actually look real. People actually selling items in the stands. Beach balls in the stands, have the crowd start the wave around the stadium. Maybe add a blimp cam from above. Implement the new lighting systems for ballparks. It would be cool for the show to have a my player mode that lets you walk all over each teams stadium like nba2k with its virtual world

First played MLB The Show 06 and haven’t looked back since. Had a hiatus for several years since I didn’t have a PS3 but love that game.

Without even seeing the caption or thumbnail, I could instantly tell that 2003 - 2004 was a generation jump. You no longer see such massive generational improvements with new consoles.

Interesting how they were too lazy to animate the crowd in the PS1 versions but the SNES game MLBPA Baseball did.

I was lookin at 08 and thinking that looks amazing.

07 the show was my first baseball game, and honestly what got me into baseball

Reminded me of Triple Play 98. I like the show and had most recently 2019 i believe. I made a couple of players. Mad Dog Duff pitcher and Rip Riley at 1st

06 is the best. Bring back the Og commentators

I can't tell if the ending was intentional but that was hilarious. Well played sir. Well played.

MLB The Show 2010 was my personal favorite.

Had 08 and 19 with my Phillies on cover. Playing 21 now thinking bout upgrading to 22 or 23 . Great video Quite a jump since playing Major League Baseball on Intellivision

MLB 2001 was my first game.. haven’t missed buying a baseball game every year on PS since

awesome video...it would be cool to see you make a video of the evolution of pool (billiards) video games

Home runs in the old days sounded gun gunshots. I noticed 04 05 it started to take off with graphics

Mlb 99 on ps1 first game I ever got. Loved playing it!!! So much fun.

Man I liked having Harold Reynolds in the booth

MLB 23 THE SHOW has just been released, the opportunity to come back on the evolution of the series. What is your favorite opus? What do you think about MLB 23 THE SHOW?

Been buying this series every year since it was MLB Pennant Race on Playstation 1. Best baseball game series.

The first time you saw that slow motion camera with the double play 🥺

It’s funny how in 1997 the ball came in smoother than some today. I even play offline vs the CPU & half the time the ball is coming in choppy & doesn’t run smooth at all. Sometimes it works. Idk what’s wrong with these new games.

Man I remember the huge graphical change from 03 to 04 . Plus anyone notice the 20 frames a second on 23 they really need to fix this

Anyone else remembers MLB Slugfest 2003?!

The amount of hours I sunk into 2010 version. That’s where I started my journey. That game couldve been a full time job for me tbh.

Really wasn't ready to witness a home run through an arc of the right field wall at Pac Bell Park (AT&T Park)...

I still hooked on mlb 2023 it has come a long way

Huge jump forward from 05 to 06

I was playing triple play on pc. Got on the show on 07. Almost have played every single one since. Best sport franchise by far. A shame they couldn't keep the option to follow your career

its awesome to see the progression of these games, what blows my mind is thinking about what they will look like in another 10-15 years..

Baseball games back then were perfect. Triple play and MLB were staples. 2k baseball graphically looked great but the gameplay was subpar. Triple play will always be the G.O.A.T. baseball game to me.

I've been complaining about the graphics in The Show for years. I don't understand how you have hardware this powerful and don't even have clothes physics on the jerseys and the same low fidelity in the environments

Honestly I feel like there's been an improvement in every successive game that they've released. Rare to find that in a sports video game nowadays (Madden, NBA 2K come to mind). Also, I remember as a kid we had MLB 2K6 on the PS2, with Derek Jeter on the cover. That was a super good game for its time. Me and my younger brother and Dad would have so much fun intentionally plunking each other, and they even had a feature where you could get your manager thrown out of the game 😅. Great memories!

Mlb the show 09-23 looks very similar

MLB 2005 and NFL 2K5, some of the best sports games of all time

06 was the first one I played and I’ve been playing it ever since🙏🏽💯.

989 baseball.. man that hits home. Been playing this series for over 20 years, and that's why no one will ever beat me

17 years of Matt Vasgersion MLB 06 the show-MLB The Show 21

MLB 99 will always be a gem for me.

Love The Show now, well I guess I got to if I wanna play baseball, but Triple Play was my jam back in the PS1 days

In all honesty, once it got to the PS4 Around 17 or 18, honestly from a Graphics standpoint hardly anything has really changed these past 5-6 years its basically the same game with just minor improvements from a Visual standpoint but the gameplay does get better every year. Gameplay is more improved over past 5 years than graphics.

MLB 06 so many memories from High School ❤

It’s crazy how the crowd in the stands on the 1996 was just smeared in the stands and then in about 2000s they actually started to stand up and move that is so crazy

Since 'the show 23' has a WBC mode, it feels like it might have a different vibe from the previous series.

Played a bit MLB '19 without knowing anything about base ball, it was a PS plus offered game ^^

Damn it was definitely 08’ for me with nostalgia factor.

Ps3 had the best baseball games. Mlb show 2009 - 2012

MLB 08 is the game that convinced me to get a PS3. I remember playing the demo for it at a friend's house and I just couldn't get over how good the game looked and played. Was playing MLB 2K6 on 360 and MLB 08 absolutely shit all over that game

The announcers where way better back then in games

We have been playing the same game for around 10 years.... wtf

MATT VASGERSIAN IN REAL LIFE DURING HOME RUNS: "OMGSANTAMARIAINTHEBASKETLOOKITHOLY...!" MATT VASGERSIAN IN VIDEO GAMES DURING HOME RUNS: "Well, that happened."

World Series baseball on sega is the goat. We played that game for years 😂. White Sox were unstoppable.

You'll never top M.V.P baseball.

I thought MLB 98 was the very first Sony owned MLB game before The Show

06-10 was easily the best

2023 is worth 59.99 because of the new bat sound … 👀 lol

22 and 23 have bad movement compared to the few years prior where it was smoother.

Long overdue for a graphics upgrade. being held back by releasing on Ps4 still.

This video is the perfect way to respond to those who claim “baseball is baseball, it’s the game same so it can’t be improved, no matter what you do it’s still baseball” look at the improvements made from old to new consoles back in the day. Yeah it’s baseball, but that doesn’t mean the pitchers have to look robotic. I miss the days of noticeable improvement year to year, especially when expecting everyone to shell out full price for the roster update

Thumbnail on the left looks exaxtly like David Wells on the mound LOL

0:10 jeez louise he demolished that

These took me back to my childhood in the 90s wow

00-06 is an insane jump in tech

PS2の時代までは日本のプロ野球スピリッツが上だけど、PS3からは圧倒的にTHE　SHOWの方が上だなぁ 羨ましい

They’ve really been using the same bat audio from 1996 to 2022

Remember the time Bobby Boucher showed up at halftime and the Mud Dogs won the Bourbon Bowl?

The ending with the laggy ahh quality 😭

한결같은 더쇼 ㅎㄷㄷ

Last one is Cool, Kyle Schwarber from Philadelphia hiiting a homer to Framber Valdez from Astros in the Athletics stadium

I was (and still am) shocked that Sony decided to bring MLB The Show to Xbox and Nintendo platforms.

It’s wild that the mlb series is the one that stayed around. Triple play, all star baseball and many others were way better baseball games back in the day.

Over the years, they have removed some great features, including episodes with replay and commentary. One of my favorite features that was eliminated is the option in Road to the Show (RTTS) to upload your own walk-up music. I don't know if anyone else has experienced this in MLB The Show 23, but there is a glitch where, if you go to the manager option and have the player steal a base, for the rest of the at-bat, the broadcast will refer to the batter as the leadoff batter. Then, after every pitch, the animation will cut to that batter on the bench. Moreover, if you hit a home run, it won't show the home run; it will just cut again to that batter on the bench. The biggest thing I hate about the commentary in MLB The Show is how they repeat the same thing over and over again. You would think that the game's commentary is linked to where you are in the season. The commentary should grow more varied the more you play out the season, kind of like how in GTA III, the more you played the game, the more you unlocked the map.

I like how the graphics have improved over the years. Here’s something I noticed from this video: Featured MLB 2009: Pirates-Cardinals Should have been: Rays-Phillies MLB: 2011: Giants-Cardinals Should have been: Giants-Rangers MLB 2013: Red Sox-Cardinals Should have been: Giants-Tigers MLB 2015: Royals-Mets Should have been: Royals-Giants MLB 2017: Dodgers-Astros Should have been: Cubs-Indians MLB 2019: Nationals-Astros Should have been: Dodgers-Red Sox MLB 2022: Rangers-Yankees Should have been: Braves-Astros

Sounds like Vin Scully on all the old school games 👍

I have MLB the Show 23 on my Xbox, so glad I can play that game without needing a PlayStation

I remember playing on ps1 and thinking how awesome this game was

My dad and I played a good bit of '99 when I was young.

2004年からレベルが急激に上がった感

2011 looked better than 2023 in some ways. The grass since about 2020 is unacceptable, imo.