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Enlarge / Today's announcement could really use some console logos, because we have no idea which consoles to expect MLB The Show on starting in 2021. But it won't just be PlayStation-branded ones. (credit: MLB / Sony)
A Monday night announcement about Sony's long-running baseball sim series MLB The Show included a clause we've yet to see attached to a PlayStation series announcement: plans to launch on other consoles.
Sony and Major League Baseball issued a joint statement on Monday night confirming that their shared license for the series MLB The Show will persist for an indeterminate amount of time. This also included a pledge that the series will appear on "additional console platforms beyond PlayStation platforms as early as 2021."
The gazillion-dollar question, of course, is which other console platforms we might expect the series to launch on. Neither Sony nor MLB had any answers to that question as of press time. Sony also didn't hint to doing the same thing for any other current PlayStation-exclusive series.
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Away CEO Steph Korey is stepping down following The Verge’s report of toxic culture at the luggage startup. Taking her spot is Stuart Haselden, the now-former COO at Lululemon, The Wall Street Journal reports. Korey will remain on board as executive chairman.
Following The Verge’s story, which described a workplace where Korey was known for berating employees via Slack, Korey tweeted last week that she was “making things right” at the company.
“I’m not proud of my behavior in those moments, and I’m sincerely sorry for what I said and how I said it,” she tweeted. “It was wrong, plain and simple.”
She added that she had also been working with an executive coach since those incidents the report highlighted. According to the Wall Street Journal, Away had been looking for Korey’s replacement since the spring.
TechCrunch has reached out to Away and will update this story if we hear back.
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