Obi-Wanma

http://www.cnbc.com/id/35124184

Chew

It's actually a test to find the best virtual pitcher for the Universe Series on Ceti Alpha III.

Decker

Interesting, but still not enough to surpass The Show 10.

DJ_Longfellow

I like the last line....how many people will do this:

Chew

I think Steve Wiebe might have a few comments about sending recordings to Twin Galaxies.

flashburn

It would be hilarious if they programmed the game to simply not allow a perfect game. Good way to get some free publicity, and hard to verify that they actually cheated.

Groucho

I would program it so that you could get a perfect game until the last pitch, then the batter would get Mr. Fantastic arms and magically hit it every time.

Oliver Clothesoff

Haha. Nice try. I'm still not playing that POS game.

The Show gets my money from now on.

dsa_shea

They will probably have the game glitch out before the end. Despite liking some things about this series I learned quickly that it is a glitch fest.

Osiris3657

I'm surprised it doesn't mention a difficulty level, I assume you have to play on the hardest difficulty.

fumanstan

2K10 was supposed to have been given a complete overhaul over the last version, so it potentially could be much improved.

SexualPudding

LOL, well played.

twikoff

sure, but for people that only have an xbox.. its not like we have much of a choice anyways

bunkaroo

Sure you do....$299!

Seriously, as a baseball fan The Show to me is a system seller.

PopcornTreeCt

I thought this belonged in the Sports forum cause I thought it was for a baseball player. This will only cause chaos. How about instead of a $1 million dollar they get their own achievement? That seems more doable.

Decker

Well, it happened on the FIRST day of competition. Wow!

Wade McGilberry luckiest (and richest) MLB 2K10 player ever
by Griffin McElroy { May 5th 2010 at 11:00AM }



When 24-year-old Wade McGilberry of Semmes, Alabama was less than 24 years old, his friends and loved ones probably gave him a hard time about his penchant for virtual baseball. "Wade," they would say, "why don't you go play real baseball? Heck, with a name like 'Wade McGilberry,' you're already well on your way to the MLB Hall of Fame." Little do they know, Wade wasn't just wasting his time. He was training.

On the very first day of the MLB 2K10 Perfect Game Competition, McGilberry managed to take down 27 in-game hitters without letting one of them place their cleated toe upon first base. For this accomplishment, McGilberry won the competition and its $1,000,000 prize, reaffirming his decision to skip all of his high school formal dances to put a few more hours into Ken Griffey, Jr.'s Slugfest. A wise decision indeed, sir.

boredsilly

That's pretty damn cool.

starman9000

Crazy, I wonder if anybody else did it early on, sent in their disc, and were fully expecting to win?

dsa_shea

The AI on that game must be terrible as I coudln't conceive being able to do that on The Show.

rocketsauce

Yeah well if they really wanted to make it hard they should have made you do it during a damn online game.

Decker

Uh huh. Because nobody could ever rig one of those games.

zekeburger1979

I would like to see the video to see how he did it.

jdpatri

There should have been more of a catch to the contest than just the first perfect game. Seems to me Halladay could throw a perfect game against the Pirates at least seven times out of ten.

Make it the first perfect game against the '27 Yankees thrown by Russ Ortiz. Now you've got yourself a competition.

KingSmoth

That's awesome, but I don't think of it as being that difficult. Over the last few years of playing baseball games, more often than not I either absolutely devastate the computer, or vice versa. There are times where I have no-hit into the 8th inning and will intentionally pitch down the middle or misplay an easy out, in the name of trying to get a computer rally going. Lopsided wins are awesome in real baseball, but get boring quick in a video game.

rocketsauce

There was more of a catch. He was on ESPN today and said that to do it you had to use matchups on the day you are playing. This includes pitchers and batting order. You couldn't just choose whatever pitcher and team you wanted to play against.