Introducing unique baseball title Major DS

by David Hinkle { May 23rd 2008 at 9:30AM }

Tomy, who you're more likely to know for their involvement with Naruto than a sports title, is releasing a pretty sweet baseball game in Japan this July. It's called Major DS and, aside from just being a baseball title (enough for this sports fan), it has great appeal in its unique control scheme. As you can witness in the video above, pitching and batting is handled by utilizing the stylus on the touch-screen. It looks like MLB Power Pros is getting a run for its money soon ...

Any sports fans think Tomy is on to something here with Major DS? We're wondering how import-friendly it is, ourselves.

Tags: baseball, major, major-ds, stylus, tomy, touch-screen

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Gennataos @ May 23rd 2008 11:40AM

I'm all for more good sports games on the DS, but this doesn't look like one. Maybe you're seeing something I don't, David.

tevetorbes @ May 23rd 2008 2:39PM

Well, I think the game looks hella fun. As a commenter further down puts it eloquently, no game will ever be as fun as Baseball Stars, but this one looks closer to that vein than, say, something out of the MLB series.

It looks genuinely FUN- using the stylus to control pitches seems awesome. Did I see some sort of screwball? Where the lower screen was grayed out everywhere except where you should drag the stylus?

Plus it seems like there are some sort of 'special' pitches, ala Baseball Simulator 1000, which was also very fun although nowhere near as good as Baseball Stars.

I'd get it.