MLB The Show 25 is making some big changes for 2025. Sony’s annual baseball franchise revealed this week that it won’t be coming to Xbox Game Pass this year and it’s also ditching Sony’s last-gen console,

Sony has unveiled MLB The Show 25, ahead of the game’s release on March 18, 2025. The game will be released for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch, with early access available from March 14 for players who purchase the Digital Deluxe Edition.

The officially-licensed baseball game is notable for being PlayStation's only franchise to launch on Xbox consoles and turn up day one on Game Pass. This year's entry, however, will skip Microsoft's subscription service for the first time since 2021.

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Sony has unveiled the latest entry in the beloved MLB The Show series today, and the surprising reveal from an Xbox perspective is that MLB The Show 25 will not be part of Xbox Game Pass when it launches on March 18, 2025.

San Diego Studio has pulled back the curtains on MLB The Show 25, the latest installment in its baseball sim series. This year’s game will be the first to skip last-gen consoles (PS4, Xbox One) and is due out on March 18.

For the first time in several years, MLB The Show 25 players will not be getting a rough deal when they play on PS5. The series has been included at no extra cost with Xbox Game Pass for a while, a notable inclusion considering it’s developed by Sony subsidiary San Diego Studio. But that won’t be the case this time.

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