Konami has officially announced that its Pro Evolution Soccer series will be now renamed to eFootball. eFootball promises to be an all-new football simulation platform, and will be free to play on all devices.
eFootball will be using Unreal Engine 4 and will release on current-gen and old-gen consoles, as well as PC and mobile devices. However, it appears that the PC version will not feature any next-gen graphics like Playstation 5 or Xbox Series S|X.
As the official website states:
“You can enjoy cutting-edge graphics and incomparable immersion on new-gen consoles, such as PlayStationÂŽ5 and Xbox Series X|S.”
So yeah, don’t expect any major graphical improvements on PC.
Konami also claims that it will add cross-play support between PC, consoles and mobile devices in Winter. This could mean that the core gameplay mechanics will be similar on all devices. In other words, there won’t be any exclusive next-gen gameplay mechanics (like in FIFA 22).
To be honest, I’m a bit disappointed by this. It’s obvious that Konami tries to turn Pro Evolution Soccer into a GaaS, and that’s a big NO from me. Yes, it will be free to play but we all know that Konami will make a lot of money from MTX. On the other hand, both FIFA and PES looked and played almost the same in the past couple of years, so we can at least play the game without paying an entry fee. Either way, this was not what I wanted from a next-gen PES game.
Anyway, Konami plans to release eFootball this Autumn.
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Who’s surprised? They ditched traditional $60 video games since MGSV. They’re going to make a shetload of money selling microtransactions.
Only a matter of time before Konami goes bankrupt.
I have no idea how they still exist in any capacity …
Pachinko machines!
they’re never gonna die
Dumb fxcks can’t include 4k textures as DLC or have graphics sliders in 2021 using unreal 4
Skipping both FIFA and eFootball this year. What a joke.
cool. it was the same sh*t every year anyway.
who even gives money for football stuff. just buy a ball and go play outside ffs.
PES 18 was the last good PES..
MS and Sony pays them to keep it like that. Old news
PatchinkoFootball ON. EAnami.
Welp, forget about football games on PC from now on.
Well they can join my ever growing list of, You can F.. right off developers.
I am seriously considering calling it a day with modern day gaming and just playing my old stuff as there is just nothing out there for me nowadays. I pretty much dislike 90% of what’s coming out now.
If you were serious about quality, you should have been playing some of the older titles instead of only caring about the latest games
What kind of stupid comment is that.
I have played thousands of great games over the years but nowadays games are becoming more services based etc. which just doesn’t appeal to me. Modern games are generally sh*te. So I will likely just play through those old classic games once again.
I’m more excited to be receiving my Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next than I am for any modern game on the horizon!
Is there literally any explanation for why sports games are doing this with PC versions?
Push to sell the new consoles? is my only guess.
Under the table deals with sony and MS plus pc piracy taking a big enough chunk of revenue to not justify it’s priority.
Remember not only do the console makers make profits off sales but they also get more online subs for multiplayer. Those online subscriptions are major profit sources for consoles.
Piracy? PES had a free to play version for years now and the last FIFA cracked on PC was 2020.
This doesn’t explain anything when it comes to giving PC an inferior version.
I would say this is a decent move, but we all know that this shlt is going to be pay-to-win.
But since I don’t play this kind of crap, I don’t really don’t care.
I dont play these games either, but…if the business model ends up succesful it will infect a game you care about eventually…
That’s true, sadly!
“Let’s make PC versions worst than console to justify selling games for $70 on next-get console”
poor morons gonna play this..
PES 4 & 5…..those were the days đ
What a shitz era we live in… full of GaaS and pandering thing…smh