Within the world of football gaming, it was a seismic move. Where football games had previously concentrated on exclusively owning the rights to entire leagues, this felt a little different – while EA Sports could continue to use Juventus' player names and likenesses in FIFA, it was forced to use a different club emblem, create new kits, and even rename the club entirely, to the fictional Piemonte Calcio.
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The new trend began in 2019 when PES announced it had acquired the exclusive license to Juventus, one of Italy – and the world's – most successful clubs. At the time, Senior Brand Director Jonas Lygaard promised that Konami and PES would "shift focus into other areas." Back then, it felt like papering over the cracks FIFA's dominance was leaving behind – but time has proven that Konami did in fact have some major licensing plans of its own. PES was left with a game that its hardcore still loved, but an overall presentation that did little to pull fans away from its biggest rival. Over time, it began to gain a little more traction and, in perhaps its biggest coup, secured a 10-year license to one of football's biggest competitions, the UEFA Champions League.īut it was with some grim inevitablity that it eventually lost even that license to FIFA in 2018.
In its earlier years, Konami wasn't just forced to use fake league and team names, but even player names. By comparison, PES has struggled with authenticity off of the virtual pitch, no matter how good its actual football simulation might be.
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For years, it's been common to see EA's FIFA series snatching up licenses to create a comprehensive set of leagues, making up the majority of football's top table. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to. Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Konami previously explained that, "The sheer scale of everything we are aiming to achieve for our next-gen debut has made it necessary to pare back our efforts in other areas of development." The PES team has also quiestly been amassing exclusive club licenses in recent year, in what seems to be a new strategy to beat FIFA at its own game. However, those who play the New Football Game demo and fill out a survey about it will earn 25,000 GP (PES' virtual currency) for use in PES 2021 Season Update's M圜lub mode.Īfter taking something of a break last year, PES will return this year as a new-gen game, with a new engine.
It's a fairly bizarre launch, with Konami not publicly announcing, or even referencing, the demo online. It appears we'll see more of the upcoming game on July 21, with in-game advertising hoardings making clear there's an event to come. Having played a match, it's very much a rough version of the final product, with everything from some player shadows to commentary missing in the current build. The demo only allows online 1v1 games, with Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Juventus, and Barcelona making up the available teams.
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