Below the Mendoza Line
Ah, September baseball. The air’s a little crisper, the nights are a little colder, and the games are a little more important. Well, a lot more important actually. The weather’s cooling down but the playoff races are heating up.
It’s also, apparently, the time to release a baseball game. Toward the tail end of the big league season,RBI Baseball 17will launch on Nintendo Switch on September 5. Major League Baseball is making a to-do about how this will be the first officially licensed sports game on Switch.
Curiously, there’s a Switch tax of sorts at play. This port ofRBI Baseball 17will be priced at $30; the PS4 and Xbox One versions originally released at $20. There doesn’t seem to be a good explanation for a $10 price hike on the Switch, other than it’s a sports game on a platform that is lacking in that area. We’ve reached out to MLB for comment about this and will update this article if/when we receive a response.
Sports-loving Switch owners will have to ask themselves if they’re so starved for games that they’re willing to buy an overpriced tardy version of a game that was widely considered bad in the first place. That’s enough to make anyone balk.
