 Combined console sales of "MVP Baseball" games released in the 2000s reached 3.5 million units in the United States by July 2006.The game was met with positive to average reception.GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 87.53% and 88 out of 100 for the GameCube version; 87.10% and 87 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version; 86.96% and 86 out of 100 for the Xbox version; 84.57% and 85 out of 100 for the PC version; and 66.78% and 67 out of 100 for the PSP version.