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Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Switch
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Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball for Nintendo Switch Gets Release Date in Japan

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Published: Mar 25, 2019 02:00 am

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Today Konami announced that Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball will finally debut in Japan for Nintendo Switch in June.

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To be precise, the game will hit the Japanese shelves on June 27 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the franchise’s debut (even if that actually happened on March 11).

Its coming was announced during the local version of the Nintendo Direct broadcasted on February 14 and did not appear in the western version of the livestream.

This is the first entry in the series for a Nintendo console since Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 15 in 2008. Since then the franchise has pretty much been a PlayStation bastion in Japan, and it’ll certainly be interesting to see how this might shift the balance.

While the series is nearly-unknown in the west (where it was released as one point at MLB Power Pros), it’s extremely popular in Japan, pretty much always doing quite well for Konami.

Below you can check out the official box art, featuring Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball‘s usual cutesy style.

Considering the fact that the previous localization attempt didn’t do very well in the west, it’s unlikely that this entry will be localized. Yet, you never know. Stranger things have happened.

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Giuseppe Nelva
Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.
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