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Konami’s WSBC eBaseball: Energy Professionals is out now on Nintendo Change and PlayStation consoles.
The baseball sequence has hitherto solely been obtainable in Japan, but it surely’s getting a “world debut” and is now obtainable for the introductory value of 79p – or $0.99 – with “no extra costs” (though “some areas could also be barely larger than this value on account of digital retailer minimal pricing restrictions”).
Formally licensed by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), the sport options over 300 characters to select from, with whom gamers can “assemble their group of batters, catchers, and pitchers to compete in on-line matches towards rivals from everywhere in the world”.
The sport additionally helps four-player co-op on each Change and PS4, and affords “matches with associates or on-line competitions like Championship Mode,” additionally with “rivals from everywhere in the world”.
It isn’t Konami’s solely foray into sports activities video games, in fact. The launch of eFootball – Konami’s rebranded, well-loved, however less-successful-than-FIFA soccer sim – lives on in infamy, however it’s nonetheless going, having not too long ago launched Season 2 with The Football Festival that positively wasn’t a World Cup clone beneath a distinct title.