This is the year I finally import Pro Yakyuu Spirits

Konami’s Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2015 coming to PS3, Vita in Japan this spring

MLB The Show is the only baseball game in town these days. Well, if you don’t count things like Super Mega Baseball, which I don’t. Not really. Not enough Yasiel Puig. Or something.

It’s the only Major League Baseball game around nowadays, at least. But there are other leagues around the world, like Nippon Professional Baseball (or Puro Yakyuu), the highest level of professional baseball in Japan and the world’s most competitive league outside MLB.

Much like The Show, NPB has its own annualized videogame franchise, Konami’s Pro Yakyuu Spirits. This year’s version, predictably christened Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2015, has just been announced for a spring release on PlayStation 3 and Vita, per the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu.

The news reminds me of something that’s become something of an annual tradition, one where I tell myself I’m going to import the new Pro Yakyuu Spirits and see my great loves (baseball, games, and Japanese culture) all collide in the most beautiful of ways.

This year, though. This seems like the year to finally, actually do it. For real this time. Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2015 will be the first game in the series to utilize 3D scans of the players and coaches, ensuring these folks I’m vaguely familiar with at best will be unprecedentedly realistic. That seems kinda neat. Yeah. This is the year. It’s finally time to take the plunge. 

[Via Hachima Kikou]