Meanwhile, fans of “PES 2017” are also seemingly happy with their game, but it’s clear who won this round.
Maybe next year we’re going to see the tables turning, and it would definitely be a refreshing change to see a new leader in this market for a while. But according to some players, it’s simply too late for the “PES” franchise to reach any relevance at this point, and the reason has mostly to do with licenses.
EA were arguably smart to secure those important real-life licenses so early on in the existence of their franchise, and this gave them some easy recognition immediately.
On the other hand, “PES” has been struggling to do something similar, and the franchise has been relying mostly on improvements in its gameplay and graphics to keep players interested. But when “FIFA” keeps showing those improvements in each new installment as well, things can definitely get complicated. It’s not like “PES” is being developed in a vacuum, after all.
In the end, it’s good that there is competition on this market in any case. It’s important in order for both franchises to keep evolving, as otherwise the situation will likely get stale very quickly. We’ve already seen this situation in other genres where a single game manages to establish itself as the sole market leader, and it usually never leads to anything good. For now, it looks like the football market is safe at least.
Fifa will always outsell PES because fans prefer licenses to great gameplay, i only play PES because of the gameplay but i do wish Konami would step up a huge effort in presentation,modes, and commentary! The pitch is ours crap is getting stale already!! Konami need to step it up in all phases of the game in order to compete with EA!!
yea I agree, even though I started to play PES again after a 10 year hiatus and I’ve never played FIFA, FIFA will always outsell PES due to the licenses.
I don’t mind at all that PES doesn’t have the licenses because they have the option to add the kits, names, stadiums etc to the game, sure it might seen like an incomplete game but that’s the way the PES series has always been since the SNES era so I understand why the series are not appealing to most people worldwide and this gets reflected in the sales.
As long as Konami continues to release PES games with good additions to the gameplay, I’ll be eager to try the next version of it. I don’t mind what EA does with the FIFA series, EA can even become more lazy and copypaste the previous version of their FIFA games if they want, add a new feature and release it as FIFA 18, 19 etc in the next FIFA games and they will still outsell Konami due to the licenses which i understand.
One of the important issues that Konami does not address and never will and it’s hurting the franchise in sales as well is their online servers which are crap. They still use P2P so you can expect a lot of cheating and laggy matches when playing online which I think, it’s an issue that is non existent in the FIFA games so is that as well.