PES developer on FIFA: “maybe EA thinks they’ve gone far enough with gameplay”

Speaking to OPM UK, PES 2013 team leader Jon Murphy suggested that FIFA 13′s aesthetic tweaks indicate that the team’s taken gameplay “far enough,” and maybe trying to “attract a different audience” this time.

[dirigiblebill]

FIFA has critical mass, commercially. I can't seem them toppling it, no matter how good their game is.

[abzdine]

It's not because a game has commercial success that it's a good game, just look at COD. Don't be fooled by numbers.

[abzdine]

They definitely did !! And it's an old hardcore PES/Winning Eleven fan talking !

PES, like any other japanese franchise on HD console is not what it used to be.

[MariaHelFutura]

Some of the best games of this generation are made by the Japanese. Beginning w/ MGS4, GT5 and Demon/Dark Souls. But I do hear what you're saying, some JP games have taken a turn for the worse this gen.

[OcelotRigz]

Agreed, Japanese still know how to make great games with the Souls games being perfect examples of that. Although, thats also the only Japanese game that could not only implement online smoothly, but to some extent revolutionize it.

Anyway, i play FIFA now, its a great game, but still doesnt give me that magic feel the old PES, like PES5/6, could give me. But neither does the latest PES's, they're terrible really and i sadly cant see them retaining its solid gameplay this generation. FIFA adapted perfectly to the new gen machines, PES didnt whatsoever.
I hope, but doubt, PES will return to its glory days. Either way it will never challenge FIFA in regards to sales, FIFA is too mainstream, anyone can pick it up and play it. Whereas PES is like an acquired taste, it requires time to get the hang of the gameplay and then theres the lack of licences, a casual gamer wont know anything about option files so this will be a huge stumbling block.

[abzdine]

Very few Jap developers are still delivering top quality games and the rest (which is a big part of it)needs to go back to school and PES team is one of them, sadly enough !

[Mansour449]

PES who !!?

[OcelotRigz]

PES was the guys who raised the bar in the gameplay of footie games. They were a small development team, and still are, who entered a market which was completely dominated by FIFA. Because FIFA had no competition it became lazy and just produced the same arcadey game every year. But thanks to the growing popularity and huge critical acclaim PES gained FIFA took the finger out and started improving their game.

Its as simple as that, without PES FIFA wouldn't be as good as it is today.

[bahabeast]

fifa 12 excellent games. love it and i never use 2 play soccer @ all

[pompombrum]

Lol what? Every year Fifa distances itself further from PES in both gameplay and modes. Keep talking Konami because that's probably the thing your best at sadly. Would love pes to go back to it's glory days but anyone who knows just how small the pes development team is just know it's not going to happen.

[meplaygames]

If only konami could do the same and make progress with the game play of PES and bring it on par to the high standards set by fifa... Its so sad that the best PES ever is still PES 2006 on PS2/Xbox.

[Masta Kaos]

PES 11 & 12 have a better gameplay than Fifa 11 & 12....Fifa is too user friendly for me.

[meplaygames]

LMAO, your comment made no sense at all...which tells me you have no idea what your talking about.

Can you explain how the in PES is better than fifa?

[akaakaaka]

I will explain it for him but you will still not understand, dare to play the game pes12 and not love it over fifa12.

Pes12 is juts better in term of gameplay and more fun to play, plu it has that magi that Fifa has never got.

And pes13 will just be better, PES13 has won al the awards as best sport game from 2012e3 and that should mean something.
plus pes14 is been already in workds for next gen console, to make sure they don't make the same mistake and start bad a new gen onsole and specially since the world up is around the corner.