The best baseball video games of recent years show dramatic improvements in most cases with better engines driving more realistic graphics and more astute management functions. The market for video games has also become more exclusive. Each system has their own titles and the best baseball games 2008 and other recent years depend on which system you use. The best baseball games PC are different titles and designers than the best baseball games XBOX and those for Sony Playstation. Moreover, the genre suffered a big setback a few years ago when Electronic Arts stopped making baseball video games.

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New Baseball Video Games

MLB 2009: The Show
Exclusively for the Sony Playstation 3, The Show is an exceptional video game rendering of baseball. Great graphics, fun gameplay and manager strategy all in one–this may be one of the best video baseball games ever made.

MLB Power Pros 2008
This Sony PS2 games was for the kids but a heck of a lot of fun for the whole family. With a lot of ways to adapt the games, it was a baseball-lite game that kept you coming back.

MVP Baseball 2005
A great brand that is no longer with us, MVP was consistently solid. Although it was one of the best baseball video games 2008 was the first year it was not released by EA sports.

ESPN Major League Baseball 2004
Well rated, this video game had smooth gameplay and that slick, professional look that an ESPN overlay gives any sport game.

Baseball Video Games PC

MLB Front Office
Available for a PC, this is a strategy game that puts you in the role of GM. You can negotiate contracts, trade and guide the team from the back office. A fun simulation.

Out of the Park Baseball 9
One of the best baseball video games 2008 had to offer, Out of the Park is the most successful PC-based managerial sim made. If you are into stats, you can go deep here.

Baseball Mogul 2008
Another baseball manager sim that has all the stats you want as a GM plus the fun gameplay that gamers are seeking. One of the best baseball video games PC has to offer.

Baseball Video Games XBOX

Major League Baseball 2K9
The last of the sports-style baseball video games XBOX has made for its system now, 2K9 is a fun play though it is not a major upgrade from prior years. The XBOX 360 version is still waiting for nextgen features.

The Bigs: 2007
This was an amped up, arcade-style game that is one of the best baseball games XBOX has ever seen. It was no simulation but the action and gameplay were very fun. The Bigs:2009 which comes out in July should be a winner.

MVP Baseball 2005
The old generation Microsoft system had what still be one of the most fun baseball video games XBOX ever produce. MVP Baseball, discontinued by EA Sports since, had a realistic engine and a fun, addictive play style. Worth a run down memory lane.