According to the latest financial results and forecasts from Konami they are only releasing a single global title for consoles this year and it isn’t Pro Evolution Soccer.
PES2015 kicks any FIFA game to date. the next gen 2015 i'm talking about.. i had both FIFA15 and PES2015 on PS4 and FIFA really is a super flawed game with no simulation feel in it.
if true then this is sad news for long time PES fans, especially after an excellent PES2015 and FIFA losing quality since 13.
@ThePope Im not into football games myself but it seems almost universal that people agree PES is the better game.Though as to if your playing the wrong one are not it appears you might not be as there might not be another PES game.
The first thing I tell people on this topic is that in PES every single player plays different and most importantly, like he plays in real life. You know exactly what you can do with them if you know their strengths and playstyle in real life. In FIFA this distinction is not so apparent which makes different matches feel similar. The next big pro for PES are the advanced controls, it's just a better "game" in terms of learning curve and flow once you get the hang of it. Also I have to mention the referees, FIFA has different "moods" of referees that make a lot of mistakes... while PES has only one kind of referee who is right pretty much 95% of the time. I could name a few more things but honestly, just try out the demo and see for yourself.
Except the last title they actually recovered a bit and did good . It was actually doing a lot to regain people's faith in the title . Except with as usual an average or even poor online .
So yeah short of removing themselves completely from console gaming , that is stupid
No soccer game will fulfil our wildest dream, PES15 was the best so far and obviously has it flwflaws but 1000 times better than the old ones or it competition.
PES is a franchise that generates a lot of money to konami with millions of sale warranty every year it's their best IP and is confirmed to have more license this year and etc no way is cancelled. Keep dreaming fifa fanboys haha the king PES is a iP that will continue forever because is profitable, it was just last year that they open a new studio in UK to help the japon studio to complete and make the game better. And this month they just started or finish recording new commentators for the game.
What I really don't get is what the hell happened. I mean PES2015 is an amazing game and finally brought the series back to its glory days, so why would you kill the ip now is beyond me
Mgs Pes castlevania silent Hill
Why are you doing this konami? Just why
And to those saying MS can buy them, from what I have read only a Japanese company would be able to buy another Japanese company. No American company can buy an Japanese company
I read this when all the fuss was going around about Capcom
I for one just don't get konami. But I am very glad that Kojima is a free man now
Also Kojima was the vice president of konami if I am not wrong.
Konami put your IP'S on sale
Don't you better not screw this up
Mgs silent Hill
You must buy
Don't disappoint me like you did when you didn't buy the darksideers ip and give the reigns to Sony Santa Monica
Sales were not great. Simple answer. It only did like 25K in Japan. Or something stupid. They probably should have put it on the wii u. It needed the game and instead they put it on the PS4, which at the time had a very low install base in Japan, of whom most had bought the system for games like Metal gear. Soccer games are casual and family games market.
I will blow my brains out, every team that MS touches becomes utter SHIT. And besides, like as already been said Konami makes more money from casinos and other non gaming related business so there is literally 0 chance for that to happen.
or better yet, nintendo goes for it. we all know this site favors sony fans so of course that is where they want them to stay. i only mention the other two because we know it would cause a serious meltdown. microsoft could use konami to catapult its existence in japan but that country is dead set against the xbox brand from day one so i don't see it being a prosperous adventure there but konami's ip's still hold weight around the world.
konami could offload its gaming assets to someone else if they are no longer interested in console gaming.
@moldybread your spot on. I don't see Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft buying them but seeing what Microsoft are doing under Phil and that they want to expand the Xbox brand to more than the UK and US it would be a good move by them. If you remember Microsoft also pushed PES last gen. I don't see it happening though.
People seem to take the fact that the PS is way more pop. as a sign of being run by said fans. Never once do they consider the fanbase is at least 2:1 when buying a console why wouldn't the community reflect that?
It's as if these poor fans of other consoles have it so rough and that they really have the same amount of fans and are being smothered or covered up. It's hilarious Sony is basically owning the market and thus the community is the same. It's not some great injustice to other system fans.
lol, Konami isn't really worth much, consider with all the ace developers gone, it really means nothing. I'm not sure MS wants to pay operating cost to a teams who make games that don't even sell in japan on their system.
Its like what I stated about Sony buying Capcom, it can go both ways, though Sony is funding several capcom games, Capcom also has LOTS of its old devs gone, not sure they would want to buy an IP without those main team members, consider those game sales are only great across 3 or even 4 systems. Putting them on 2 systems limits sooooo much money and their worth.
RE, Monster Hunter and Street Fighter is all Capcom's worth right now.
Konami even LESS! I predict Sega might buy some of Konami's IPs or even have Kojima as they've bought teams many times before, have stayed true to japanese design with many of ex-capcom developers etc.
They've left many games up to its creators so I feel Sega would be willing to buy some of those ips.
ie I don't see Konami JUST LIKE THQ just selling their ips to just 1 team, mark my words, Konami will sell its ips to many of the highest bidders, Sega will buy some of em.
As Sega bought Relic when THQ was going under, also bought Atlus.
If Konami were to sell this IP, I don't think there would be a more opportune time for 2K Sports to step in and further strengthen the competition PES was giving to FIFA.
Fifa is better in the last 4 or so years but when PES was first introduced it was the far better football game. I mean in Fifa 2000-12 or so you couldnt even score outside of the box.. that is not realistic at all. I watch football and there is a lot of bomb shots from crazy distances and PES always had the better mechanic's where they lagged behind Fifa was animations but the gameplay in PES always felt much better. Fifa 2012 and after is when Fifa got back to being the king of football. Now in 2015 you can score all kinds of goals.
PES 2015 and Fifa 2015 are both amazing and as a football fan it was good to see that. I will be sad if PES dies out now, Fifa can start becoming like Madden and do whatever they want because there is no where else for us to turn.
I was the same until I bought Fifa 15,what a pile of shite,scripted play,uneven unbalanced multiplayer that requires no skill the matches are almost pre determined,straight garbage I traded it for PES 15 on PS4 which actually requires skill and a passing game,PES 15 destroys Fifa 15 no joke
I still play last years almost every day. It's the best football game since PES 6, and if they cancel it and I'm forced to play Fifa I'll be absolutely devastated. My only worry is, by this point, we generally have it announced/screen shots....
Konami must not cancel PES. It is best football game. But they also shouldn't make it a yearly franchise. PES 15 is the best foundation of a GREAT next game and they should take time to make PES 16 the great football game.
If you remember they have not show the few last game until e3 and all in private just for the mags and gaming news industry without allow information to go out other than whatever they agree to be shown. . until after they decide to show more abd release a demo.. it's been like this for the last few year's. . Specially this last year now that the game come out months after the seasons stars.
do we really have to keep speculating here about konami. its obvious by now they are leaving gaming behind to focus on their gambling machines and resort/spa businesses that already make more money than the gaming side of their business........ face it people Konami is DEAD!!!! they are finishing up current projects and after that its done forever for their gaming business as far as AAA games go, i could see them trying to cash in on the greedy mobile app market but thats not gaming
NOOOOOOO Fifa 15 was god awful to the point I'd play Fifa 11 on Ps3 over it. I played Pes2015 a lot and liked it. If this is true then I guess no more football game for me.
Doesn't matter. I'm tired of Konami. Actually there has not been one game to me from any developer that justifies buying these so called next gen systems. Every game so far has been a remake or ultimate edition or some form of crap. Nothing new to look forward to. And I'm not talking about indie games. If I wanted to play indie games I would not need any of these 400 dollar next gen systems. I could use my cell. sorry I kinda went off on a rant but this gen total sucks I should of just kept my 360. Man biggest disappointment of new consoles ever And we still have a possible 7 years of listening about 1080p and 60fps that these next gen systems can barely do. Anyways I'm done.
I hope so. All the series does all the time is get people's hopes up, and then destroy them.
So much for that PES Dispenser.
Sounds like Konami really wants to leave the gaming industry.
I never really hear anyone mention PES, i haven't played one for years. If i get a Football game i go with FIFA.
Not sure about it being cancelled. Community Manager answered me on Twitter. He laughed about the thought of it being cancelled.
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