Konami may have lost out to rivals EA for the rights to UEFA’s Europa League and Champions League competitions this year, but that doesn’t mean it’s closing the trophy cabinet and letting FIFA run off with the goods without a fight.
Since news broke that PES 2019 would be the first series entry in a decade not to have Europe’s premier club competitions licensed in game, the team has been working hard behind the scenes to muster up licenses elsewhere.
This year’s release will include eight new fully licensed leagues from Scotland, Russia, Argentina, Denmark, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, and Turkey. Additionally, new partnerships have been formed with select clubs including FC Schalke, Liverpool, Barcelona, Celtic, and Rangers, among others.
Every club from these leagues will include sponsors, official kits, player names and other associated props. For those of us north of the border in the UK, this is particularly pleasant: for too long has EA ignored our plight and refused to give us the Old Firm in all its glory.
EA's FIFA 19 may have gained that admittedly wonderful mid-week anthem, and it maintains its stranglehold on the English Premier League, but it’s nice to see Konami try and make up for this elsewhere. And ultimately, PES is by far the better game. [Oh, you've done it now - Ed]
You can even give the game a warm-up next week as a free demo nestles itself neatly into the corner of the PlayStation Store on 8th August.
[source konami.com, via eurogamer.net]
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When I read people that still say that PES is superior to FIFA in any way I honestly just laugh...it's like saying that NBA Live is better than NBA 2k lol
F**k Konami I would rather give EA my money then buy anything Konami
I love how they managed to make Scot Brown look like a Neanderthal!! Fifa really closed the gap in terms of gameplay this year, interesting to see if it overtakes PES on that last front with 19.
PES over FIFA all year, every year.
@AFCC PES>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FIFA
Agreed, PES is a better game than FIFA. FIFA is like the kebab after a nice out, PES is like the respectable restaurant in comparison. The last good FIFA game was in 98.
@ShadowWarrior 🤬 EA they killed more of my favorite franchises then any other company out there. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Played both of this year's iterations and PES played better and had by far the better AI, but alas it became a chore with things like Master League becoming boring and online connectivity not being as smooth, despite supposedly fixing it.
FIFA was enjoyable for me by virtue of more people I know were playing it, but cheap goals, poor tactical options and other issues also show it needs to improve too.
Both need to improve in many aspects, so it's good that PES sales have picked up, even if its just to keep EA on its toes a little... The worst kind of football franchise is one that stagnates and doesnt bother to improve.
It would be nice however to put the onus on attackers to make goals in these games, rather than neuter the defending options, as they have done down the years.. Something i've noticed for quite a long time now.
@AFCC nba live IS better than 2K or at least it's heading in that direction. Live 18 was much better this year.
As for PES. If they nailed down presentation, they'd catch up to FIFA sooner rather than later. Easy to see if you play both.
@MaseSco 14 was good the new game on ps4 the first one. I enjoyed it. It was really good fun.
@lixei32 Actually FIFA 13 on Wii U was fairly solid, lost a lot of time to the multiplayer on that. Good times! After discovering PES 16, I've never looked back.
@Flaming_Kaiser where's your house? You're taking a beating D:
@daveofduncan I play both and honestly think PES is for kids lol
The gameplay is pretty basic run and shoot, the animations are slow and sluggish, licensing is pretty bad and the presentation is way worse...
Pes is arcade Fifa is simulation...I don't even consider fair to compare the two
@AFCC I'm sorry man but pes is far from arcade. I'd put those the other way around. I played and hated fifa 18. Pes just runs smoother. 'football' itself is pretty basic. Pes accommodates my style more. Both games have scripting issues which is annoying. Licenses aren't an issue at all. Easily accomplished with an option file. Nowhere near the task it used to be last gen.
Presentation is the only thing holding PES back for me. I don't need the flash of fifa but a menu upgrade would do it wonders. Commentary is always switched off for me so obvious minor issue there.
The kids comment is a little harsh yet ironic given most 10-15 year olds play and obsess over fifa and UT.
Oh man, Celtic FC edition is available to pre-order now on the Celtic shop online. I'm so excited to crush Rangers in a game other than Football Manager. Still, hopefully the Scottish Championship is here too so I can use Partick Thistle as I'm a PTFC fan by heart and Celtic fan by family/religion/birthright lol.
@Jake3103 If Celtic and Rangers are premium sponsors like I've heard, do you know if that means there will be legends in the same vein as the Liverpool ones from the recent games? I play PES 2008 so I can play the golden era of Old Firm matches with Bobo Balde et al so it would be great to recreate them. Would be a bit too much to ask for if they included Filip Šebo, legend of playground chants for his famous sitters.
@nessisonett Maybe. I'm not sure. I haven't heard any specifics about that yet.
@daveofduncan I think if you consider the whole world, on all ages, there's more people playing fifa than pes and there's a reason for that. Pes lost it's way some years ago and it just can't compete. You can clearly tell that it's not trying to be a simulation and that's completely fine, but it just doesn't have the animations, presentation, licensing, everything really to compete...and now losing the champions it's just another reason not to buy it! But hey, I'm glad people like PES, it's healthy having competition between games!
I'm sorry if the kids comment was a little harsh, what I meant it's that it's way easier to defend and attack in PES, so it's aimed to be a little more broad in it's audience..
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