"Live football 2014" will not appear on the PS4 and Xbox One platform

Konami's flagship game, live Football 2014, has been announced to be on the PS4 and Xbox One platform, and the media, like the players, are curious about why. A few days ago, Konami's marketing department told foreign media that abandoning the second generation was due to concerns about the popularity of new hosts.

Konami's marketing executive Manorito Hosoda has said it wants to make a good game with the new engine before it truly crosses the generations.

"Live football 2014" Production tidbits:

"We are not sure how fast the secondary generation will occupy the market." The player base of this game is in this generation, before we march to the next generation, we want to make a real good game with new hospitality. ”

In the current football game market, it is clear that their old opponents "FIFA" series better results. In the UK, "FIFA" and "live football" market share is basically 20:1, of course, from the global perspective, the gap between the two is not so big. In the first year of the second generation, it was hard to believe that "live football" had ceded the market to "FIFA".

Konami's explanation is that they think players with PS3 or Xbox 360 could reach more than 100 million, and that the number of players who bought the two new hosts when the PS4 and Xbox One were on the market was clearly not up to that figure. The idea of EA is that the new host of the synchronized listing game will win a higher exposure rate, while the competition is relatively small.

One of the producers of live football, Jon Murphy, admits that there are some difficulties: "We'll probably regret it, whether we do it or not." We have a different position with EA, and in the past we were blamed for not being ready to launch a generational game. ”

Murphy refers to the Konami with PS2 engine launched PS3 version of "Live football" after the player criticized.

"In this sense, EA and we are in a different position. We dare not take a risk to do a not guarantee the perfect generation game. ”

"Now we want to have enough confidence in the game to not be blamed by the player," he said. We must adhere to the original principles, quality is the most important. ”

The live Soccer 2014 will be developed using the Fox engine and will be landing on PCs, PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms in the second half of the year.