I'm sure the dev team still keeps an eye on PES for ideas and inspiration but EA couldn't care less now about what PES does, aside from annoyingly grabbing a license here or there," they wrote. "FUT shot FIFA into a new market and it now competes with other major entertainment IPs built around sustained services. In a separate thread, one Reddit commenter opined that FIFA's real competitor is Fortnite. Since then, PES and FIFA have largely gone in opposite directions, with FIFA becoming a true global mega franchise while PES has regressed into more of a regional competitor. The last truly great PES game was arguably 2006's Pro Evolution Soccer 6, which saw release a few years before FIFA introduced Ultimate Team and became the juggernaut that it is today. To be fair, PES was poor competition even before the Konami eFootball debacle. and then I heard about the free-to-play cross platform with phones thing, and it's as bad as I'd feared." It's a grim landscape if you're a sports fan a wasteland of incremental updates, glitchy gameplay, and heavily-monetized game modes. "Final nail in the coffin for PES, a sad day for us all since now EA genuinely has zero competition with FIFA and it's Ultimate Team ," a Reddit commenter wrote on the day that Konami eFootball was released.Īnother wrote, "Yeah this is gutting, PES was back to being a legitimate competitor to FIFA and I had high hopes this next version was going to be the crossover once more to PES being the better game. This gives FIFA a clear field, depriving it of even the semblance of competition. Barring a monumental comeback on the level of No Man's Sky, or Barcelona against PSG, Konami's soccer franchise is more or less dead on arrival. But while it's easy to laugh at Konami eFootball's horrifying versions of Messi and Ronaldo, it's also hard not to feel sad.
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