{"id":34482,"date":"2024-07-23T13:36:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=34482"},"modified":"2024-07-23T13:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:36:46","slug":"konami-new-shohei-ohtani-tie-in-baseball-game-under-fire-for-game-breaking-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/konami-new-shohei-ohtani-tie-in-baseball-game-under-fire-for-game-breaking-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Konami\u2019s new Shohei Ohtani tie-in baseball game under fire for game-breaking bugs\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Konami\u2019s Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 <\/strong>was released on July 18, however they did not hit the homerun they were hoping for. The game has quickly come under fire on Japanese social media for containing various rudimentary bugs, as reported by Japanese news site SmartFlash<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Konami\u2019s Power Pro series of baseball games celebrated its 30th<\/sup> anniversary this year. To celebrate, Konami appointed<\/a> Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 player Shohei Ohtani as ambassador of the series. It\u2019s hard to overestimate how popular Ohtani is in Japan right now – he has topped polls of Japanese people\u2019s favorite athlete<\/a> for 3 years in a row.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The highly successful and popular player was also featured in advertising for Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025, the newest game in Konami\u2019s long-running baseball series, and people who pre-ordered could even get a special Shohei Ohtani slipcase. Ohtani also appears in the game (pictured at the top of this article), along with other famous Japanese baseball players like Ichiro, Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima and many more. Overall, this collaboration and the advertising built up a lot of hype for the title.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interestingly, both MGS3’s Naked Snake and Silent Hill’s Pyramid Head make cameos in this game.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

However, upon release, Japanese players immediately took to X and other social media platforms to vent their disappointment at a number of bugs that they had come across. A common bug causes all the numerical values to hit the maximum, and it seems this is easy to trigger. One social media user shared a long list<\/a> of player combinations that can result in values suddenly maxing out. It seems that this bug is potentially game-breaking as it can affect prices, causing simple items to cost prohibitively expensive amounts of the in-game currency (PP). Another player reported that they were suddenly no longer able to change their starting lineup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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