[Syd Thrift]

I specifically remember that the best of them, Ernie Harwell’s Broadcast Blast, was a thing you turned off about a hundred or so hours in. If you want text to speech software, it does exist, although it’s primarily useful for accessibility. You’re just not going to have an announcer, pre-recorded or otherwise, that’s going to have the highs and lows of a real life person, let alone engage in the sort of banter and stuff that makes a real baseball game a thing to want to listen to. For that last part, maybe AI will change that in a few years although that’s a whole new can of worms,

The whinging about PT in this context is, frankly, risible. Yeah, man, the sellout to PT is totes why they aren’t pursuing a feature that’s always been a little crap in AAA games.