Trivia / Live Powerful Pro Baseball

• Bad Export for You:
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Milestone Celebration:
  • 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.
  • Pawapoke Dash contains a retrospective of all the previous Pocket games plus the eighth that had been released for the Nintendo DS in the previous year.
• No Export for You: 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. WBSC eBASEBALL: Power Pros in 2023 then marks the first time an installment in the series was ever released worldwide, Europe included.
• Portmanteau Series Nickname: Live Powerful Pro Baseball games are "Pawapuro", the MLB spinoffs are "Pawamajor", the Power Pro-kun Pocket sister series are "Pawapoke", the Portable spinoffs for the PSP are "Pawapota" and the smartphone app is "PawaApp".
• Sequel First: The two MLB games released in America are the second and third. And then there's the butchered overseas version of Pawapoke 10 mentioned above.
• Sleeper Hit: WBSC eBASEBALL: Power Pros was quietly released as a shadow drop in a Nintendo Direct, 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(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 Metroid Prime Remastered and Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe. WBSC would later declare the game's performance as an "early success", boding well for WBSC and Konami's partnership.