Take Two in Talks with Major League Baseball

After EA's ESPN announcement yesterday, it hardly comes as a surprise that GamesIndustry.biz is reporting a possible deal between Take Two Interactive and Major League Baseball. The deal, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, appears to be for exclusivity rights similar to EA's arrangements. While the move wouldn't hurt EA's baseball franchise, it would squeeze out other competitors who have used the MLB license in the past.

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It doesn't use MLB branding?

[spotter]

the article claims that, but EA's web page for the title, clearly has the MLB logo

http://www.easports.com/games/mvp2004/home.jsp

Don't get upset, just usual /. double-standard

[stratjakt]

While the move wouldn't hurt EA's baseball franchise ...

A lot of you are wondering why it wouldn't hurt EA any more than anyone else. Of course, it would, but remember - we're supposed to hate EA.

If we admitted that this could "hurt" EA, in the same way EA's deals could hurt Take Two (et al), we're admitting that competition in the video game market is alive and well, and that exclusive rights are par for the course in the industry.

Activision has exclusive rights to make Spiderman games, but you don't see any articles about that, do you?

So basically, just think of EA as Microsoft, and Take Two as Apple.

DRM in Media Player is an affront to our rights online, and threatens our very freedom. DRM in iTunes is a brilliant business strategy from a company that "gets it". Or, MSFT pursuing action againt mikerowesoft.com (even though they HAVE to defend trademarks) was evil, but Apple suing a kid for passing on a rumor about the mini mac, well that's different because, umm, iPods have neato little scroll wheel things.

I hope this clears things up. Slashdot is best read and understood when peering through your navel, with your head shoved far up your ass.

Re:Player Modeling

[Lifereaper0]

Where would they get the data for steriods-off?