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freebs2 on 30 January 2018
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Ka-pi96 said:
freebs2 said:

Uhm...no. FIFA was already is the best selling football franchise since the late 90s. PES only managed to compete with it for some years while being a vastly superior game in any aspect. Right now FIFA is stonger than ever and it doesn't have any true competitor. If the game should stop being released on PS it would definetly hurt the platform, but at the same time it would hurt the franchise itself (at least in the short to mid period) and it would devalue EA as a whole. So for these reasons I think FIFA leaving Playstation sounds really unrealistic.

Because of all of its exclusive licensing, the same reason it's always been beating PES, and something that it would possibly lose if it went exclusive to one platform.

While this may be true for the reasons why FIFA became so popular in ther first place, it's also true that FIFA has got a fist mover brand advantage, and it would likely take years for any competitor to catch up even with a technically superior product. Also I think it's urealistic for EA to lose the licence, just as it's unrealistic for the series to leave Playstation, the actual FIFA would oppose it since it would mean losing lots of licensing fees.

In the end the event of FIFA becoming exclusive to xbox is deal where everybody loses. EA would lose profits, the FIFA would lose fees, MS would buy an asset that would depreciate right after the purchase. It wouldn't make sense. If ever it would be a bit more realistic if MS buys a branch of EA (some studios, some IPs) or MS buying the whole company but leaving FIFA multiplatform (just like Minecraft).