FIFA's arch virtual football rival PES is "struggling", EA reckons.
Why? According to EA UK boss Keith Ramsdale, it's because 2010 "is very much a FIFA and Call of Duty year".
"We've seen PES come. PES is struggling like most other non-mainstream franchises. This is very much a FIFA and Call of Duty year. There is quality product out there that is failing in the marketplace that at any other time would perform very well. So it's a tough place, but FIFA is a beneficiary of that, and we're really pleased with how FIFA's coming along."
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TGC writes: There are those that like to argue whether you are a Fifa gamer or a Pro Evolution Soccer gamer. I’m going to take it one step further and say your either a football gamer or a non football gamer. The fact of the matter is a new game comes out every year with possibly the slightest difference from the previous game and they release it onto the shelves in quantities thinking that they’ve made something new and improved. I really think they should hold a prize for anyone who can spot the difference between FIFA 09 and FIFA10 because I’m really struggling.
I use to buy every sports game I was interested in madden,MLB,nba and wwe along few others and I remember buying playing for few days than thinking why I paid full price for this. Than one year about 4 years ago I said no more and I have never bought another sports game at launch sometimes I do buy me when they $20 on craiglist of sale but that's barely
IMO sports games don't do enough to justify a fully price and that's just my opinion
If 2k can sell nfl 2k5 for $19.99 and make a profit than why are games today with less content are selling for full 60? No wonder why EA ran to nfl and bought the exclusive rights
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Sports games shuld be every 2 years and in between dlc and more updates and stuff like tournaments
If people are willing to buy them then whats the problem? i think its cod or mw123 you should be talking about, the new pes and fifa look good this year.
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Sports games tend to bore me, but I'm very fond of Tony Hawk, Skate, NBA Street V2 and some WWE games (if you count it as sport... sports entertainment... whatever).
well.. if your game sales at half the rate in the opening week, everyone will buy it. don't boast about the metacritic, we all know how many bugs were there in the FIFA this time.
PES was riding high at the top of the charts. It's doing just fine.
FIFA IS CRAP, PLAYS LIKE CRAP, LOOKS LIKE CRAP.
I live in London and only just yesterday, I went to the GAME store in the West End, which is pretty much the largest video game store in central London. I bought Fight Night 4 and Call of Duty WAW and I had also planned on buying PES 2010. But guess what? PES 2010 was totally sold out. From a glimpse of this, it sure dont look like PES 2010 is struggling to me.
I got PES2010, and it is crap....same crap, nothing new. Fake names of most national team players and just players overall, it is joke.
I never liked FIFA, but i played Fifa 2010, got it from a friend for 2 days and yes it is better, it's much bigger game, has better graphics, AI is not ridiculous like in PES2010, on harder difficulties AI tackles you like nuts and there is no foul hahaha go read forums, it's not just me people complain about this.
Every year PES loses on popularity, we witnessed that in last 4-5 years, while FIFA goes up, that is ludicrous to me since FIFA was garbage just up to few years ago.
FIFA 10 for PS3 in Europe sold 1 million in first week, they deserve it. next year i will get FIFA ....can't believe i am saying this.