FIFA Rival Pro Evolution Soccer Won't Be Making The Switch This Year

If they’re going to go over to Switch, it’ll be the 2022 season’s game. That’s going to be the next-gen game on probably a new engine.

"will just be available on the current console generation"
Switch isn't current gen according to him... fascinating

Wait, they bleeped out a four letter c-word in the quote. Is it the one I think it is?

@Rika_Yoshitake Hahahaha, no. The guy’s saying that this year’s game is only going to be on current gen consoles in relation to next year’s game moving to next-gen consoles. Stop being negative on literally every article and actually read them.

Suggesting that Switch is not current generation...

@LordGeovanni Switch isn’t current gen. Wii U is the same gen as PS4 and Xbox One but Nintendo released the Switch early. If you go by majority rule, Switch is technically ‘next-gen’ as that’s what people are calling PS5 and Xbox SeX, which are the same gen as Switch.

The lack is sports games on Switch is astounding. No football or hockey, and just one poor version of soccer. Huge opportunity missed which I don't understand on a portable success like this. While I'm at it, GTA and Call of Duty...?

Pathetic corporate BS. EA and Konami love to grandstand and deliver empty promises.

I thought they did a good job of the Wii PES games. My nephews were fans of the series on the Wii but admittedly play FIFA on tbe PS4 far more much like my oldest. Shame it isn't coming to the Switch

Just what the switch needs more quality alone time, no big releases or other games that keep the system relevant.

Konami already mentioned that this year's PES won't be on Switch and that future entries may be on Switch once they stop developing PES on the Fox Engine (an engine that doesnt support the Switch) and start developing PES on Unreal Engine (an engine that does support the Switch).

Not a football fan, but that sucks. FIFA needs some big competition on the platform.

Regarding the cursing: I understand censoring out really offensive curse words (the f word, the other c word), but the ones in the interview (ar*ed, cr*p)? If I translate those words to Swedish, they're nothing special. Sure, they might not be considered polite to use in certain situations (like during the Nobel dinner with the king and queen (though that would be funny)), or in formal text, but in daily talk they're nothing people get upset about over here. I mean, this seems to be a pretty relaxed interview (or at least interviewer).

But I guess different countries have different views and I know this partly is a US based website. Just find it funny. But that's the way of the world.

Sorry for thread derailing, but I find stuff like this interesting. 😅

This year's game is basically a barebones update of the last game still running on the Fox Engine. While they put extra time into making the next game on the Unreal Engine. That's the one that's likely to be on Switch.

@nessisonett switch isnt going anywhere given its success not even 4 years in and nintendo wants ten years on the switch. sorry

wait stop don't come back

@MayroMake

@NintendoPok I think you misinterpret what is meant by a 10 year lifespan. They may support it for 10 years, but you can be sure it will be replaced with it’s successor after 6 years thereabouts.

@NintendoPok ...what? I honestly don’t know what you’re on about in relation to my comments. If Switch is indeed the same gen as these consoles coming out now then it will be lasting a good few years. Only problem is that the tech is already out of date even now, a mid gen upgrade will probably be due.

For someone that grew up playing International Super Star Soccer, I'd love to see PS available.
If they can deliver it properly on the Switch I'm sure they can do better than Fifa in its current state.

I had Pro Evo 2012 and 2013 on my 3DS even.

What happened Konami? Strange company.

I loved PES on the 3ds
I would definitely be up for some PES on Switch!!

@Mfreddy22 I agree!! As someone that spends hundreds upon hundreds of hours every year on sports games, it's been a genuine disappointment having such a small sports library on the Switch

Better this than the fraud from EA called Fifa. PS and XBox are simply better platforms for football simulators and the hotspot for the competitive and youtube scene. This is where you can make big money out of lootboxes.

Wii U days are creeping back bayyyybeeee!

At least they are honest and straight forward that they don't like money. Unlike other companies who keep teasing but never bother.

@LordGeovanni Yes, it technically is a 9th gen console for Nintendo, 8th gen was Wii U

Neymar with Barca.. Are we in 2020 already?

@Rika_Yoshitake well, he may be off on the "current" part, but he does provide immediate context that he means XBox One and PS4, so it checks out. Regardless of how many fans try to measure generation divides by blackjack and specs, Switch is a Gen 9 console that debuted when XBO and PS4 were growing proud beards in terms of console lifespans.

Still an awkward choice of words, though, it makes poor Wii U tear up.

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@Mfreddy22 see if the golf game is a succes then maybee we might get some more

Haven't played PES since about 2013. To me the series had been dipping in quality for a few years up to then and I switched to FIFA. Would definitely give PES another shot though if they came to Switch with a decent port.

I could tolerate a legacy edition if the scumbags at EA didn't charge full price for it. £20 digi only id probably snap it up. 45 retail? No thanks.

@LordGeovanni the Switch is actually a next gen console. The Wii U is current gen.

It’s strange, though, that there aren’t any other proper football games on a console with such an install base. Konami should just update the graphics of International Superstar Soccer 98 and release it as ISS Retro.

PES is so good, easily game I played most for PS4 before selling it to get a Switch. Only one I really miss. Switch PES would be a dream. Don't care what it looked like as long as it played the same. And an edit mode to sort the kits and make my own would be good. My son made a dream team and designed his own kit using his own face as the front. Was strangely disturbing having Messi score and then run off celebrating with my son's grin across his chest.

@wjcarl Though the same thing, even Iniesta is on the pic.

Look, our main competition has taken an incredibly popular system lightly and it has backfired with negative press and poor sales. They're on the ropes, so we should capitalise now by doing....absolutely nothing. Good work Konami.

I assumed this was a foregone conclusion. 2021 is a season update of 2020. We'll have to eait for the overhaul in 2022 to see with a Switch version.

No Nintendo home console PES since the Wii. Making even Fifa look good.

If you are a sports fan you need a Playstation, Xbox or PC. This is nothing new. Just beating a dead horse.

At this point, I'd settle for an ISS 64 port.

I already have FIFA, there is no reason to get PES on switch even if it was available

@wjcarl there are gamers who care about well done football simulation, and gamers who would rather indulge in celebrity culture/worshipping.

@nessisonett the switch isn't next gen despite releasing after the wii u. the internal hardware has much more in common with what last generation hardware was capable of doing than what the ps4 and xbo are capable of doing. there's a reason why so many ports are from theps/360 era and there's a reason why so little current gen AAA games are releasing on the switch.

So technically, the switch is what a pro console would have been last generation.

@Casual_Gamer95 Generations aren’t sorted by power, that’s a fallacy. The Switch is a successor to an eighth-generation console, the Wii U, with a whole new approach to gaming while being an update to ideas explored in the Wii U. Therefore it’s a ninth-generation console. It’s absolutely in the same generation as PS5 and Xbox SeX.

@nessisonett i don't agree at all. if it was in the same generation as ps5 and xbsx, it would have the proper hardware to run the games from the same generation, which the switch can't do at all. it's limited to last gen games and smaller scale projects from current gen. So yes, a generation is described by the jump in hardware power and it's not a fallacy, it's facts and it's why so many current gen projects don't release on switch.

@Casual_Gamer95 Let’s think of it this way. The Playstation Vita and 3DS had multiple PS2 ports while running hardware worse than the home consoles of that generation. Does that make them sixth-generation consoles? No, they’re handheld consoles. Switch is primarily a handheld console, which is the reason it can’t run many games. So yes, you’re completely and utterly wrong.

If we get PES22 on Switch it will be a port of the old game. Unless Konami design it from the scratch it won't be the next-gen entry with a whole new graphic engine....

Why are parts of the quote censored when it's just stating the facts about what EA has to offer in regards to FIFA on the Switch.

@Quarth This kind of censorship is quite frankly pathetic and shows that the person behind this article is just a huge coward who's too scared to tell people straight how crappy EA's FIFA offerings are on the Switch.

Here we are criticizing EA and these fools won't even put out the game. I know a ton who love FIFA on the Switch..,.I don't know a single person who likes PES on Switch, as they don't care enough o release it! Cut EA a break here, at least they put out the game. Konami can't even be bothered to put out a game on the best selling console in the past three years and probably this year too? And instead we get some BS Contra?!?! Unreal.

@Mfreddy22 they all think they have enough cash without switch I guess..

captain tsubasa It is then

We'll that's that I'm against fans buying fifa legacy editions but now it's time to create our ultimate team in Mario sonic Olympics or capn Tsubasa given there's actual effort in either of the titles

I think this has a lot to do with the game engine they use

I read somewhere that PES is moving to a new engine (Unity I think?) for 2022. I cannot remember where I read that, but I remember thinking it might benefit Switch.

I don't think anyone at Konami remembers how to make videogames anymore.

@nessisonett again nintendo can give two flying butts about sony and microsoft. they dont want to be #1 nor do they care. good day tom.

@NintendoPok Any business that doesn’t want to be #1 is a complete and utter fairy tale. Tell me, where does this almighty wisdom come from? Your uncle work at Nintendo?

I know this is late but I can't help wondering.

PES 2022 could be on switch because it using UE5 and the engine supports the switch. Fox Engine doesn't. So we have to wait for PES 2022
Maybe it will have full feature parity than FIFA

@MaseSco it’s unreal engine