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Microsoft tie up a deal with EA and Konami

  • 23-08-2006 3:41pm
    #1
    kensutz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭


    To have Pro Evo 6 and FIFA exclusive to the XBOX360 for the next 12 months.


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  • #2
    aphex™
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭aphex™


    Thats nice, got a link?


  • #3
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054981289

    ;)


  • #4
    kensutz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭kensutz


    Microsoft brought a touch of the Abramoviches to the next-gen football market today, fashioning a deal to secure FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer's Xbox 360 exclusivity for the next 12 months.

    FIFA '07, announced for 360 today, is based on a complete engine rewrite, and today's Microsoft conference in Leipzig saw producer Hugues Ricour demonstrating the game, which is due out later this year.

    But it was only following a trailer for the 360 version of Pro Evolution Soccer 6 - playable on Microsoft's stand - that Microsoft played its trump card. Addressing a football-loving German press pack, dotted with pesky foreigners (like me), executive Chris Lewis declared, "Microsoft owns football," with no small about of zeal as he pointed out that now it doesn't really matter which game you prefer, since there's only one place to play the flagship versions.


    Both games will appear exclusively on 360 for the next 12 months, he said, although the deal is next-gen exclusivity rather than the full shebang - after all, everyone knows current-generation console games don't count.


  • #5
    Julez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,870 ✭✭✭Julez


    So it just means they wont be out on PS3 really for these editions?! Same thing has happened with Smackdown Vs Raw 2007!


  • #6
    Smellyirishman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭Smellyirishman


    Pfft, we were all over this on the PES forum hours ago! :p

    Well, other people were, I was wandering around aimlessly completly confused as to what exactly was going on, but now I am on the straight and narrow!

    Good stuff, I still have a few people I know saying "OH I can't wait to get a PS3 this Christmas", this one will definitly sort them out.


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  • #7
    collie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭collie1


    they just dont have the time to develope both for the ps3. and im an xbox fanboy!!


  • #8
    mcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    collie1 wrote:
    they just dont have the time to develope both for the ps3. and im an xbox fanboy!!

    Who cares why, the more 360 owners the better!


  • #9
    GrumPy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭GrumPy


    mcgovern wrote:
    Who cares why, the more 360 owners the better!

    Your damn right!!


    LIVE FTW!!!11 :D

    Down with those companys offering "free online services"
    I can get free beermats in a pub, does that make them better than live?

    I dont think so


  • #10
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    i'd take beermats over live anyday, especially if they are them smirnoff ones with the little slots cut out of them so you can build with them.

    ala

    173337824a403821449b74788166l.jpg


  • #11
    GrumPy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭GrumPy


    Couldn't you just make your own slots though?


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  • #12
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    Irish GrumPy wrote:
    Couldn't you just make your own slots though?
    nah that would just create effort :P

    back on topic, good news for xbox fans and microsoft, bad news for the rest of us.


  • #13
    FuzzyWuzzyWazza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 906 ✭✭✭FuzzyWuzzyWazza


    Irish GrumPy wrote:
    Couldn't you just make your own slots though?
    Maybe we could get a developer interested in bringing out an XBL arcade game where you make things out of small square bit of cardboard with slits cut in them!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    That would surley ease the wait for Halo 3.:p


  • #14
    projectmayhem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,480 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    Smellyirishman wrote:
    Good stuff, I still have a few people I know saying "OH I can't wait to get a PS3 this Christmas", this one will definitly sort them out.

    i've yet to meet anyone getting a ps3 for a football game tbh.

    fifa i couldn't care less with, but PES is a loss for the playstation, though as someone said, it appears it's more a case of the devs not having the time to get to grips with the tools for ps3 fast enough rather then a "omg lets defect to microsoft", though you can be damn sure that'll be microsofts take on it


  • #15
    GrumPy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭GrumPy


    projectmayhem wrote:
    i've yet to meet anyone getting a ps3 for a football game tbh.

    Well you aint met alot of people!

    Think of all the 8-15 year old PUNKS that have ps2's now, that play nothing but football, and wrestling games...

    Alot of little punks will want a ps3 a christmas, but no football game for them!
    They will have to make do with ps2/xbox versions.


  • #16
    Smellyirishman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭Smellyirishman


    projectmayhem wrote:
    i've yet to meet anyone getting a ps3 for a football game tbh.

    You need to mingle with the common folk some more then! The reasons a lot of people (re: the more casual pundit) would have pick up a PS3 was the assumption that it will have GTA/PES/Wrestling and then just the home name.

    That is not the case though, at least not for the opening year. (The name will be the biggest drawing point now)

    Why are the people you have meet getting a PS3 then?


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