With rumored FIFA brand de-centralizing from EA, would you want console exclusive FIFA football games?

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Ka-pi96 said:

Basically no chance. Sony already tried with This is Football, I enjoyed the games actually, but they clearly weren't selling well enough to be worth continuing. I don't see why being able to pay a billion dollars to name them FIFA instead (and having to basically recreate them from scratch since any code they have left from 2005? would be severely outdated) would make them want to try again.

Honestly it sounds to me like people don't understand how little the FIFA licence means. Literally anybody can make a football game and try to get licencing agreements with leagues/teams/players with or without the licence, it's not the MLB or whatever where nobody else is allowed to make baseball games featuring the top teams. People can already. EA have most of those leagues/teams tied up in exclusive deals already, them losing the FIFA licence wouldn't change that and those deals are part of the reason why Winning Eleven has declined so massively over the years (it's also Konami, so there's undoubtedly other reasons too). Companies tried a decade + ago to compete with EA, and with the exception of Konami none of them stuck around (although not sure how much longer they'll last) and nobody else has really tried since. Why would literally just a name being available for a billion dollars over 4 years make anybody want to try again? If a company were willing to invest some serious cash then yeah, they probably could compete with EA, but they've been able to do that all along and nobody's been willing to do so.

Try asking Konami how well scrubbing the FIFA name worked for them.