Yes, remarkably, there's a £15 price-premium for buying the SKU that allows access to both PS4 and PS5 versions of the game. Meanwhile, on the PlayStation side, I had to pay £75 for the cross-gen version of the game. From my perspective, MLB The Show 21 was available to download on any of my Microsoft consoles and it was just there as part of my subscription - a couple of button presses to download as I was good to go. It's also likely it's the same outfit that brokered the deal to bring MLB The Show 21 to Game Pass on day one, which not only makes this title an unlikely battle of the consoles but also a stark contrast in the business models that Sony and Microsoft have opted for. Quite how we've reached this situation is something we can only really speculate about, but it's likely that Major League Baseball itself - the publisher - opted to move the franchise into the multi-platform arena. I've played the game across three Xbox machines and two PlayStations and the results are fascinating.

This is MLB The Show 21, the first multi-platform release from PlayStation Studios. All of them in fact, from Xbox One to Xbox Series X. We've all seen that splash screen, the white type on the black background transitioning into a polished branding sequence, culminating in the familiar cross/square/triangle/circle iconography - only this time it's not just manifesting on a PlayStation game, it's also happening on Xbox. 'Sony Interactive Entertainment presents'.

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