PES is 'struggling', says EA boss
2010 a 'FIFA and CoD year'.
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".
Konami shipped more than three million copies of PES 2010 to retail before the game's launch on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Late last month ChartTrack reported that PES 2010 entered the All Formats All Prices video game chart at No.1, although it sold 39 per cent fewer copies than PES 2009 during its debut week. We gave the game a disappointing 7/10 in our review.
After the game's release, Konami general manager Peter Stone told MCV the Japanese publisher was delighted by the early success of PES 2010, and pointed to improvements made to the title over last year's effort as the reason for its strong sales.
Ramsdale, however, had this to say: "FIFA, the quality bar, again unbelievable. 91 per cent Metacritic on the two next-gen formats. 1.7 million units sold the first weekend in Europe. Extraordinary numbers.
"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.”
Is PES struggling? Is 2010 a FIFA and CoD year? Let us know in the comments section below.
User Comments
spike13@ David-Macphail
I hope they kick EA's BUTT..so we they can get more licenses to add more teams/ they deserve it..GREAT looking and playable game..Beats the pants of Fifa2010
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spike13@ JamesB
PES2010..Hands down
David-Macphail
Coincidentally, PES 2010 released in Japan just recently and sold over 140,000 units on day one on the PS3 alone. I'd hardly call that "Struggling".
The first (Also the last) FIFA game i ever purchased was FIFA 97 on the PS1.........if i'm brutally honest, the only thing that's changed since then are the graphics.
cousinwalter
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JamesB
The result? There are a lot of very angry customers writing into places like Amazon, pointing out that FIFA 10 is broken - especially the Management Mode. I know, I bought it. The new Master League on PES is, however, almost perfect - a quantum leap. Again, the FIFA fanboy reviewers refused to mention this.
The net result of all this is actually a good thing. People will trust the reviews a lot less next year, which is as it should be. They will make up their own minds about the demos. EA will hopefully be forced to sort out FIFA's awful player models and ball physics, on top of the broken Mngr Mode.
renegade