Picking up whereI left off last weekend, the sport above is called soccer, not football. This is important to note because as I am telling you about howFIFA 10is outsellingPro Evolution Soccer 2010by a lot, I will be referring to the sport of soccer and I don’t want anyone getting confused. So soccer is the sport.FIFAandPESare 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’sFIFAhas far outstripped Konami’sPESin terms of sales. EA European boss Jens Uwe Intathas been caught sayingthatFIFAis “beating the heck” out ofPESin 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 “FIFAwas neck and neck withModern 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 knowFIFAfar better than they doPES, one could be led to imagine that they look relatively the same.
FIFA ‘beating the heck out of Pro Evo’[CVG]
