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What PES Needs to Do to Catch FIFA

12:57 PM - December 23, 2011 by RaychelSnr

If you’d like to believe the press release, FIFA 12 outsold PES 2012 at a 25-to-1 clip. Even though I’m a little cynical of that figure myself, it’s hard not to anoint FIFA as this console generation’s footy-game king. Yes, PES still has pockets of hardcore support in various places around the world — Japan, Europe (with the notable exception of the UK) and Latin America — but the momentum is definitely on FIFA’s side. PES is looking like an army that’s ceding territory left and right as the mighty FIFA machine marches on.

Is all hope lost? Of course not.

First and most importantly, PES is still making money — which, no matter what game companies’ friendly PR departments will try to have you believe, is the most crucial aspect. And FIFA, despite what EA will have you believe, is eminently catchable and can be dethroned. And so, here are a few humble suggestions as to what the PES franchise should do if they are serious about a comeback.

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# 21 RA30 @ 04/15/12 12:21 AM

This is very true. PES should just fork up the money for a real FIFA license and not just the teams in Champions League.

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Originally Posted by tKlausEffect


	Honestly, if the roles were reversed and PES had all of the official licenses that EA has for FIFA I believe that PES would be the sales leader. Official licensing goes a long way and sells games no matter what the quality, just look at Madden, EA knows this and it is precisely why they are so desperate to snatch up exclusive rights. I'm not saying that FIFA is a bad game at all, but if PES had all of the real teams and leagues that FIFA had, EA would be in big trouble in the soccer department.

# 22 Altimus @ 04/18/12 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by BIG CAROLINA


	This is the answer. I have never seen a commercial for any PES game let alone 2012. The way it stands now, there is nothing they can do to "catch" Fifa in advertising but they already had and still have the lead in the gameplay dept. EA could sell snow to an eskimo or water to a whale, their marketing and advertising is that good.

PES 11 was advertised on FSC last year all year.

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# 23 fugazi @ 04/21/12 10:34 PM

I have to agree...

If Konami held a presser and said "We have a full FIFA License...." the fit would hit the shan.

It would be the biggest development in football gaming in...forever...and maybe the biggest in sports gaming, in terms of how it could affect this rivalry/competition.

The only thing even close was EA's cornering the American football market with their exclusivity deal.

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