MLB SlugFest 20-03 leads off first year of its franchise and 2002 holiday season as year-to-date, best-selling baseball videogame for PlayStation 2.
Midway Sports, the sports brand of leading software industry publisher and developer Midway Games Inc., announced today that MLB SlugFest 20-03, the first-ever adrenaline-style console baseball videogame, is the top-selling baseball videogame for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system in 2002 thus far. MLB SlugFest 20-03 is now available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube.
According to NPD Funworld, MLB SlugFest 20-03 -- released in summer 2002 -- has outsold every competitive baseball game individually for the PlayStation 2 by two-to-one since its launch. In the month of July 2002, MLB SlugFest 20-03 hit a home run with consumers everywhere, outselling all competing PlayStation 2 games" combined sales by a nearly two-to-one margin, and any single PlayStation 2 competitor by five-to-one. Sales figures for all PlayStation 2 baseball games from January through November have revealed that MLB SlugFest 20-03 outsold all competing PlayStation 2 games in the category, making it the best-selling PlayStation 2 baseball game thus far in 2002.