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What if Konami released a FIFA? The federation opens its doors

EA announced yesterday that will stop calling FIFA to his endless football saga to be called EA Sports FC. In a movement that had been sounding for a long time, what many expected was finally confirmed, an end of the stage in terms of licenses with which to open a new era in the world of soccer simulators. But what will happen to the FIFA name?

There will be FIFA 23, but not from EA

FIFA 22

Today the International Federation of Football Association has released a statement informing that it is already negotiating with several video game developers with the sole intention of launching on the market what will be the best football simulator with the official FIFA license. Let us remember that this license is the one that allows the use of the FIFA name in the game, a completely different license from that of the names of the players, which EA will continue to renew.

This agreement seeks a greater globalization of the FIFA brand, allowing users to launch more options on the market, among which will be a product related to the FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.

Up to FIFA 26 and more

In the words of the FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, the new saga will have “FIFA 23, FIFA 24, FIFA 26, FIFA 26, and so on”, with the name of FIFA always present and ensuring that “it will continue to be the best”.

A FIFA of all

FIFA World Soccer

The peculiarity of the new license agreement is that it will no longer be exclusive, so more than one development studio will be able to work with the license at the same time. This opens up a wide range of options for the market, although obviously only one of the games can be called FIFA 23, so we’ll see who gets the “native” name.

Who could make the new FIFA?

The great unknown will now be who will apply to take the throne of FIFA. EA will continue working on its game with the new name, confident that the popularity of its game modes and its huge community is enough for them to be able to get rid of the very expensive FIFA license (it is not without reason).

The problem could be in the new player that would appear on the scene. How could it be otherwise, the first thing that comes to mind is Konami, which with its battered eFootball could be able to come back stronger than ever after several years of simple updates and lack of innovation. Do you think that a change of name with the word FIFA would be enough to believe in Konami’s soccer game again?

Another idea that comes to mind would be the appearance of 2K Gamess in the equation. With the absolute dominance of basketball with its NBA 2K, the option to watch a quality soccer game on the same level as basketball is something that we are quite excited about. And finally, one of those that had been playing in recent months, UFL of Strikerz Inc, which promised to be the great revolution and that with some important agreements is beginning to make more noise than we thought.

In the case of UFL, it is known that the investment behind the game is quite juicy, so we would not rule out seeing them as one of those interested in getting a piece of the FIFA license. Will this be the true rival of EA? Time will tell.

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