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* SleeperHit: ''WBSC eBASEBALL: Power Pros'' was quietly released as a shadow drop in a WebVideo/NintendoDirect, with fans worried about the game's content(or lack thereof) leading up to its then unannounced release(which is proven to be correct). Despite this, its established baseball simulator mode coupled with a one-dollar price tag makes the game a steal([[LoopholeAbuse some literally by paying with My Nintendo Gold Points instead]]) for many uninitiated gamers. Within days of its release, this game managed to reach the top spots in the best sellers section of Nintendo eShop alongside [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime Metroid Prime Remastered]] and [[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe]]. WBSC would later declare the game's performance as an "[[https://www.wbsc.org/en/news/early-success-for-wbsc-ebaseball-power-pros-across-more-than-140-countries early success]]", boding well for WBSC and Konami's partnership.
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** There is an [[http://www.mlbppworld.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page english wiki for the two localized MLB games]].
** [[https://wikiwiki.jp/pawapuro/ Japanese wiki]] for ''Pawapuro 15''.
** [[https://wikiwiki.jp/pawapoke/ Japanese wiki]] for the ''Pawapoke'' games.
** [[https://wikiwiki.jp/puropoke/ Japanese wiki]] for player stats in both ''Pawapuro'' and ''Pawapoke'' games.

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* SleeperHit: ''WBSC eBASEBALL: Power Pros'' was quietly released as a shadow drop in a WebVideo/NintendoDirect, with fans worried about the game's content(or lack thereof) leading up to its then unannounced release(which is proven to be correct). Despite this, its established baseball simulator mode coupled with a one-dollar price tag makes the game a steal([[LoopholeAbuse some literally by paying with My Nintendo Gold Points instead]]) for many uninitiated gamers. Within days of its release, this game managed to reach the top spots in the best sellers section of Nintendo eShop alongside [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime Metroid Prime Remastered]] and [[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe]]. WBSC would later declare the game's performance as an "[[https://www.wbsc.org/en/news/early-success-for-wbsc-ebaseball-power-pros-across-more-than-140-countries early success]]", boding well for WBSC and Konami's partnership.
* TheWikiRule:
** There is an [[http://www.mlbppworld.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page english wiki for the two localized MLB games]].
** [[https://wikiwiki.jp/pawapuro/ Japanese wiki]] for ''Pawapuro 15''.
** [[https://wikiwiki.jp/pawapoke/ Japanese wiki]] for the ''Pawapoke'' games.
** [[https://wikiwiki.jp/puropoke/ Japanese wiki]] for player stats in both ''Pawapuro'' and ''Pawapoke'' games.
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* SleeperHit: ''WBSC eBASEBALL: Power Pros'' was quietly released as a shadow drop in a WebVideo/NintendoDirect, with fans worried about the game's content(or lack thereof) leading up to its then unannounced release(which is proven to be correct). Despite this, its established baseball simulator mode coupled with a one-dollar price tag makes the game a steal([[LoopholeAbuse some literally by paying with My Nintendo Gold Points instead]]) for many uninitiated gamers. Within days of its release, this game managed to reach the top spots in the best sellers section of Nintendo eShop alongside [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime Metroid Prime Remastered]] and [[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe]]. WBSC would later declare the game's performance as an "[[https://www.wbsc.org/en/news/early-success-for-wbsc-ebaseball-power-pros-across-more-than-140-countries early success]]", boding well for WBSC and Konami's partnership.
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* NoExportForYou: The non-MLB installments, as they're licensed under the Japanese league. Not that Konami ever had a good track record of localizing visual novels...
* PortmanteauSeriesNickname: ''Live Powerful Pro Baseball'' games are ''"Pawapuro"'', the MLB spinoffs are ''"Pawamajor"'', the ''Power Pro-kun Pocket'' sister series are ''"Pawapoke"'' and the ''Portable'' spinoffs for the PSP are ''"Pawapota"''.

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novels. ''WBSC [=eBASEBALL=]: Power Pros'' in 2023 then marks the first time an installment in the series was ever released worldwide, Europe included.
* PortmanteauSeriesNickname: ''Live Powerful Pro Baseball'' games are ''"Pawapuro"'', the MLB spinoffs are ''"Pawamajor"'', the ''Power Pro-kun Pocket'' sister series are ''"Pawapoke"'' and ''"Pawapoke"'', the ''Portable'' spinoffs for the PSP are ''"Pawapota"''.''"Pawapota"'' and the smartphone app is "[=PawaApp=]".

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* BadExportForYou: ''MLB Power Pros 2008'' on the Nintendo DS is a disastrous localization of ''Power Pro-kun Pocket 10''. They got the licenses to use American baseball teams... in a game where they're all depicted as generic chibi puppets. The cost for that? Literally ''everything'' other than the baseball simulator. The character customization system, three story modes, a card battle game, a Pennant season mode, and three minigames all got thrown in the trash with nothing to make up for that.

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''MLB Power Pros 2008'' on the Nintendo DS is a disastrous localization of ''Power Pro-kun Pocket 10''. They got the licenses to use American baseball teams... in a game where they're all depicted as generic chibi puppets. The cost for that? Literally ''everything'' other than the baseball simulator. The character customization system, three story modes, a card battle game, a Pennant season mode, and three minigames all got thrown in the trash with nothing to make up for that.that.
** In 2023, after so long since the ''MLB Power Pros'' entries, Konami suddenly released ''WBSC [=eBASEBALL=]: Power Pros'' to Western audiences in partnership with the World Baseball Softball Confederation. Again, as feared by many fans, it is a heavily stripped down version of the typical ''Power Pros'' game containing only the baseball simulator with very limited customization and that is focused on online matches. At least it costs only a dollar.
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* FanNickname: Japanese wikis for the ''Pawapoke'' series call the unnamed protagonists "Hero[=/=]Protagonist X" for convenience. The first one is called "Hero 1-3" because he's the protagonist in those two games. On the other hand, they also seem to lump all the Inner Success protagonists together.
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* BadExportForYou: ''MLB Power Pros 2008'' on the Nintendo DS is a disastrous localization of ''Power Pro-kun Pocket 10''. They got the licenses to use american Baseball teams... in a game where they're all depicted as generic chibi puppets. The cost for that? Literally ''everything'' other than the Baseball simulator. The character customization system, three story modes, a card battle game, a Pennant season mode and three minigames all got thrown in the trash with nothing to make up for that.

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* BadExportForYou: ''MLB Power Pros 2008'' on the Nintendo DS is a disastrous localization of ''Power Pro-kun Pocket 10''. They got the licenses to use american Baseball American baseball teams... in a game where they're all depicted as generic chibi puppets. The cost for that? Literally ''everything'' other than the Baseball baseball simulator. The character customization system, three story modes, a card battle game, a Pennant season mode mode, and three minigames all got thrown in the trash with nothing to make up for that.



** ''Pawapoke Dash'' contains a retrospective of all the the previous ''Pocket'' games plus the eighth that had been released for the Nintendo DS in the previous year.

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* PortmanteauSeriesNickname: ''Live Powerful Pro Baseball'' games are ''"Pawapuro"'', the MLB spinoffs are ''"Pawamajor"'' and the ''Power Pro-kun Pocket'' sister series are ''"Pawapoke"''.

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* PortmanteauSeriesNickname: ''Live Powerful Pro Baseball'' games are ''"Pawapuro"'', the MLB spinoffs are ''"Pawamajor"'' and ''"Pawamajor"'', the ''Power Pro-kun Pocket'' sister series are ''"Pawapoke"''.''"Pawapoke"'' and the ''Portable'' spinoffs for the PSP are ''"Pawapota"''.

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** [[https://wikiwiki.jp/puropoke/ Japanese wiki]] for the ''Pawapuro'' games.
** [[https://wikiwiki.jp/pawapoke/ Japanese wiki]] for the ''Pawapoke'' games.

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** [[https://wikiwiki.jp/puropoke/ jp/pawapuro/ Japanese wiki]] for the ''Pawapuro'' games.
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** [[https://wikiwiki.jp/pawapoke/ Japanese wiki]] for the ''Pawapoke'' games.
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** [[https://wikiwiki.jp/puropoke/ Japanese wiki]] for the ''Pawapuro'' games.

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* FanNickname: Japanese wikis for the ''Pawapoke'' series call the unnamed protagonists "Hero[=/=]Protagonist X" for convenience. The first one is called "Hero 1-3" because he's the protagonist in those two games. On the other hand, they also seem to lump all the Inner Success protagonists together.



* TheWikiRule: There is an [[http://www.mlbppworld.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page english wiki for the two localized MLB games]].

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** [[https://wikiwiki.jp/pawapoke/ Japanese wiki]] for the ''Pawapoke'' games.
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* SequelFirst: The two ''MLB'' games released in America are the second and third out of four. Yeah, they didn't even finish. And then there's the butchered overseas version of ''Pawapoke 10'' mentioned above.

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* SequelFirst: The two ''MLB'' games released in America are the second and third out of four. Yeah, they didn't even finish.third. And then there's the butchered overseas version of ''Pawapoke 10'' mentioned above.
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* OfficiallyShortenedTitle: ''Live Powerful Pro Baseball'' games are ''"Pawapuro"'', the MLB spinoffs are ''"Pawamajor"'' and the ''Power Pro-kun Pocket'' sister series are ''"Pawapoke"''.

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* OfficiallyShortenedTitle: PortmanteauSeriesNickname: ''Live Powerful Pro Baseball'' games are ''"Pawapuro"'', the MLB spinoffs are ''"Pawamajor"'' and the ''Power Pro-kun Pocket'' sister series are ''"Pawapoke"''.

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* BadExportForYou: ''MLB Power Pros 2008'' on the Nintendo DS is a disastrous localization of ''Power Pro-kun Pocket 11''. They got the licenses to use american Baseball teams... in a game where they're all depicted as generic chibi puppets. The cost for that? Literally ''everything'' other than the Baseball simulator. The character customization system, three story modes, a card battle game, a Pennant season mode and three minigames all got thrown in the trash with nothing to make up for that.

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* BadExportForYou: ''MLB Power Pros 2008'' on the Nintendo DS is a disastrous localization of ''Power Pro-kun Pocket 11''.10''. They got the licenses to use american Baseball teams... in a game where they're all depicted as generic chibi puppets. The cost for that? Literally ''everything'' other than the Baseball simulator. The character customization system, three story modes, a card battle game, a Pennant season mode and three minigames all got thrown in the trash with nothing to make up for that.



** ''Pawa Poke Dash'' contains a retrospective of all the the previous ''Pocket'' games plus the eighth that had been released for the Nintendo DS in the previous year.

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* OfficiallyShortenedTitle: ''Live Powerful Pro Baseball'' games are ''"Pawapuro"'', the MLB spinoffs are ''"Pawamajor"'' and the ''Power Pro-kun Pocket'' sister series are ''"Pawapoke"''.
* SequelFirst: The two ''MLB'' games released in America are the second and third out of four. Yeah, they didn't even finish. And then there's the butchered overseas version of ''Pawapoke 10'' mentioned above.
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* BadExportForYou: ''Pawapoke 11'' had a disastrous american localization called ''MBL Power Pros 2008''. They got the licenses to use american Baseball teams... in a game where they're all depicted as generic chibi puppets. The cost for that? Literally ''everything'' other than the Baseball simulator. The character customization system, three story modes, a card battle game, a Pennant season mode and three minigames all got thrown in the trash with nothing to make up for that.

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* BadExportForYou: ''Pawapoke 11'' had ''MLB Power Pros 2008'' on the Nintendo DS is a disastrous american localization called ''MBL Power Pros 2008''.of ''Power Pro-kun Pocket 11''. They got the licenses to use american Baseball teams... in a game where they're all depicted as generic chibi puppets. The cost for that? Literally ''everything'' other than the Baseball simulator. The character customization system, three story modes, a card battle game, a Pennant season mode and three minigames all got thrown in the trash with nothing to make up for that.



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* TheWikiRule: There is an [[http://www.mlbppworld.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page english wiki for the two localized MLB games]].
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* BadExportForYou: ''Pawapoke 11'' had a disastrous american localization called ''MBL Power Pros 2008''. They got the licenses to use american Baseball teams... in a game where they're all depicted as generic chibi puppets. The cost for that? Literally ''everything'' other than the Baseball simulator. The character customization system, three story modes, a card battle game, a Pennant season mode and three minigames all got thrown in the trash with nothing to make up for that.
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* MilestoneCelebration: Power Pro Baseball 2014 was released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series as a whole.
** Power Pro Baseball 2016 is also one to celebrate 20 years of the series' Success Mode.

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** ''Pawa Poke Dash'' contains a retrospective of all the the previous ''Pocket'' games plus the eighth that had been released for the Nintendo DS in the previous year.
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Power Pro Baseball still continues after 15, even though it's starting to adopt the year suffix starting in 2009. If there's one gap though, Power Pro 2016 still counts as one, but not enough to grant Sequel Gap because the last game before that was Power Pro 2014.


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* SequelGap: For the main series, Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 was released in 2016, the last installment, Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 15, was released in 2008.

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