Picking up where I left off last weekend, the sport above is called soccer, not football. This is important to note because as I am telling you about how FIFA 10 is outselling Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 by a lot, I will be referring to the sport of soccer and I don't want anyone getting confused. So soccer is the sport. FIFA and PES are the soccer videogames. Got it? Good.
According to EA the perennial rivalry between the two is actually more like a beat-down this year, as EA's FIFA has far outstripped Konami's PES in terms of sales. EA European boss Jens Uwe Intat has been caught saying that FIFA is "beating the heck" out of PES in Europe, with 75 percent of the soccer game sales in the area. That's a pretty whopping chunk that we're sure to hear Konami comment on at some point as well.
It could have some validity, however, as Intat also claims that "FIFA was neck and neck with Modern Warfare 2 [in 2009] to be the best-selling game across Europe." Intat didn't mention any numbers for the U.S., but considering the fact that half the population doesn't care about soccer and a majority of the part that do probably know FIFA far better than they do PES, one could be led to imagine that they look relatively the same.
FIFA 'beating the heck out of Pro Evo' [CVG]
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12:00 AM on 01.10.2010
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I'm surprised you haven't came up with a new name for golf(bonus question).
Silly Americans doing it wrong all the time.
Just saying.
"Football" = Handegg.
That American game you try to call football is actually "American pissy pansy pussy rugby", but that's insulting rugby. How can you call a game that you predominently use your hands for, "football". Where's the logic.
Not that I care, I don't like the game, so I won't be buying either of these. Just felt the need to correct a grammatical error.
Also, what turtlehermit said
Also, the last PES was really horrible which explains the dominance. However, the FIFA/PES crowd consists of a big part that sticks to the franchise, but another big part just goes with the best football game of the year. If a good PES comes out next year, you'll see a minor shift again.
that said: Football is football, and Americans can't pretend that the name "football" describes their game accurately. Hand Egg would.
I guess I just fed the troll and gave this article more hits after all.
Anyway I played PES in the last ten years but this year I switched over to FIFA which is the better game by a long margin. The only downside is that the team kits look WAAAAAAY better in PES and suck in FIFA and I hope they'll get this correct next year. Shirts don't look anything like their real-life counterparts and I hate that being the picky bastard I am :P other than that it's a whole better thing compared to PES.
^THIS
Unless your just going on form.... Which would make England number 1 :p
Oh, and it's called Football. Dick.
As for the name of the game bit, read the wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football