Just a week ago, EA officially decided to end its decades-long partnership with FIFA; a partnership that basically monopolized the football game market (or soccer if you prefer). EA will now use its 'EA Sports' branding for upcoming football games, and rival Take-Two (2K) has now chimed in on the huge name that EA is leaving behind.
Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick recently spoke with IGN, discussing all things sports games and of course, the FIFA brand. Here's what he had to say:
"We're definitely interested in expanding our opportunities in sports [...] and FIFA has a great brand and incredible clout, but we have no current plans to discuss."
While that sure looks like Take-Two has no "current" plans regarding FIFA, it's a statement that doesn't really rule anything out. The company, who runs publisher 2K, is clearly interested in creating more sports games, and what better way than to pick up the FIFA name?
We'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, EA will release FIFA 23 this year as its final FIFA game, before moving on to EA Sports FC afterwards.
Would you be interested in seeing 2K create a "FIFA" game?! Let us know in the comments.
[source ign.com, via eurogamer.net]
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FIFA 2K2X next then (will it be 23 or 24?).
EA has nothing to worry about. For now at least.
First release of fifa regardless of publisher is going to sell well - there’s too much recognition in the name for it not to. If they don’t nail the mechanics though it will be interesting to see how well the following fifa sells.
Personally I’d love a new sensible soccer
@Bleachedsmiles Not quite the same, but we're supposedly getting Sociable Soccer on Xbox later this year:
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2021/09/sensible_soccers_spiritual_successor_kicks_off_on_xbox_in_2022
@Bleachedsmiles id go for Sensible World of Soccer with the FIFA license with non of the ultimate team shenanigans.
Even more reason not support 2K, they now support a bunch of fraudsters who get paid millions for doing nothing! Jog on
Even though this isn't an announcement of a Fifa 2k game I pretty much expect them to be the ones to get the licence since they aren't exactly too different to EA and they have a reputation of releasing yearly sports games. The only other would have been Konami but they look to not be as interested in yearly releases anymore. If it means there is another big football game on the market it may at least entice others to do so with other sports where there is now usually only room for one on the market.
It's strange, but EA seems to be well on its way to redeeming itself as a real, proper video games publisher, and 2K has descended to fill the void of "EA-ness" left behind.
All the millions of people who have been buying FIFA every year are still going to buy EA Sports FC after FIFA 23. People don’t buy FIFA for the name, they buy it for the actual game and EA Sports FC will technically be FIFA 24 in all but name, just without the word FIFA on the box and screen.
Anyone who buys the next FIFA after 23 thinking they are going to get the same kind of game would be a fool. It would have different gameplay mechanics and would just be different to EA Sports FC (FIFA 24).
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