FIFA schuldet PES so einiges… wenn man Konami glaubt

Jon Murphy von Konami ist etwas unglücklich darüber, dass man PES immer nur auf Platz 2 hinter FIFA sieht. Dabei, so Murphy, würde man Qualitativ einiges besser da stehen als die Konkurrenz aus dem Hause EA. Nur was die Verkaufszahlen angeht, ist EA unangefochten in Führung. Unverdientermaßen, wenn es nach Konami geht. Allein was die Innovationen angeht, so hat PES eindeutig die Nase vorn, so Murphy. Was FIFA angeht, so hätte EA nut geschickt kopiert:

“We’ve always had a product quality lead on them, but we’ve never overtaken them in sales, […] There’s a certain amount of work they’ve done very well on PR to convince people that the gap is bigger than it actually is. I also think we don’t get enough recognition for the way we tend to innovate still and [the FIFA team] do still tend to follow a lot of what we do, […] If you look further back into the past of PES you can see they’ve obviously gone from a game that was totally different from PES to one that started copying PES to one that started taking areas PES did well further into the product they have now. People shouldn’t forget that’s how they got where they are. You can give them loads of credit for how they’ve got to where they got to now, and you can see it as a totally valuable product in its own right that does have ideas we can all learn from, but we shouldn’t forget that PES innovated all of this stuff and they did copy it, […] In many cases it must be coincidental. But then you do see them reacting to what we’ve done last year quite naturally. For example, this year they’re talking about the AI and gameplay as being a key force, which is exactly what we were dealing with last year as a key feature. That’s not a coincidence, I’m sure. I’m not going to start knocking the fact they’ve pushed the football genre onwards, while we were stagnating, and they’ve invested properly in this generation of consoles,[…] That’s really kicked them on. But it’s just a bit galling at times that people throw FIFA in your face constantly, and you’re thinking, well hold on, the only reason why FIFA is in the position it’s in now is because of PES. And it doesn’t mean to say FIFA will always occupy that position.”

Der kleine Fußballzickenkrieg…

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