PES 2016 to Feature More Licenses Than Ever Before, First Details Coming in June

[Ermolli]

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Even though it isn't that important to me since I've been playing PES games as early as ISS 98, licences are important in this era of gaming and at times a deciding factor in choosing between several options.

I always didn't get the notion of "PES doesn't have licenses", besides the EPL and Bundesliga (which obviously are huge) I don't see how much better licenses are on FIFA. PES has (without counting the ones previously mentioned) the most important ones and the biggest continental tournaments in their games, people really care about having the Polish league fully licensed for example? (No disrespect though)

About licenses I want PES to have the most important leagues and clubs in the world if possible and then have a deep edit mode and easy sharing of option files, I believe that they should go further than that since most people play with the best 5 or 10 teams in the world anyway.

[TemplateR]

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According to the Facebook-Account of PES, we will get some big news on monday.

We have big news coming on Monday, May 4th. Stay tuned on our social channels. #ThePitchisOurs
Andre, PES-Team

[dubcity]

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Hopefully the "big news" isn't just that they will have big news at a later date ...

[bxphenom7]

Hopefully the "big news" isn't just that they will have big news at a later date ...

Man, that was some crap last year. Good thing I ended up really liking the game though.

[buckeyezombie]

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Don't know why the haven't added smaller leagues like Austria and Poland. They would be cheap you'd think and add much more to the game

[willz1985]

if they finally somehow get all the EPL teams I can stop buying fifa purely for kit authenticity

[Turbojugend]

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I'm sort of digressing here, but did anyone mention anything about option files being completely impossible on current-gen? I realize they're fan-generated and not officially supported, so is it just a matter of "cracking the code" on PS4/XB1 saves? I certainly hope so.

[TexasFan2005]

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According to the Facebook-Account of PES, we will get some big news on monday.

Konami presents Gabigol Mondays, a video series featuring Santos FC star Gabriel Barbosa, aka Gabigol, in which the young striker will teach fans how to perform some moves and tricks on #PES2015. Every Monday a new video will be released showing how to perform those tricks in real life and in the best football game there is. Check out the trailer and stay tuned for more Gabigol Mondays!

Konami, please tell me this isn't the big news for today...

[KG]

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Don't know why the haven't added smaller leagues like Austria and Poland. They would be cheap you'd think and add much more to the game

I don't think the reward (increase in ppl buying the game in those 2 countries) would be worth the cost of acquiring those licenses. Just my .02

[Turbojugend]

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Konami, please tell me this isn't the big news for today...

If so, then Konami's PR is officially the worst.

Who would make a teaser announcement about tutorial vids? That is insane.

[TexasFan2005]

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Personally, I hope that more licenses mean more relevant European leagues. I like how when they got the La Liga license a few years back, Konami went all out and included all of the stadiums in Spain. I'm really hoping for Serie A and Bundesliga, if not EPL and/or La Liga. I know it's a stretch since EA seems to have licenses to all of the major clubs and leagues. I can't imagine Konami taking away too many licenses away from EA since it's a huge part of annual FIFA releases.

For all we know, "more licenses" could mean more licensed national teams, tournaments (Copa America, FIFA Club World Cup, Gold Cup), or even South American leagues like Uruguay, Argentina, or Brazil.

[BROman]

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The lack of an EPL license, plus no viable option files on current-gen systems (and the dud that was PES 2014), has effectively killed PES. I hate it too, as it used to be such a great experience, but those days are gone. Only 600K PES games sold this year- FIFA sold that in a few hours. There's next to no way Konami is making $$$ on PES, and IMO the only question is when will they pull the plug?

[Turbojugend]

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With all of the weird news swirling around Konami these days, I don't think anyone can accurately predict the long-term future for PES. What we do know is that healthy competition makes a better product for everyone, hopefully PES doesn't go away anytime soon.

I mainly play FIFA, I thought 15 was damn-near perfect, but after seeing all of the great things PES 2015 did on-pitch I now see that FIFA can still make some huge strides. Hopefully EA have taken notice as well.

[Ermolli]

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Personally, I hope that more licenses mean more relevant European leagues. I like how when they got the La Liga license a few years back, Konami went all out and included all of the stadiums in Spain. I'm really hoping for Serie A and Bundesliga, if not EPL and/or La Liga. I know it's a stretch since EA seems to have licenses to all of the major clubs and leagues. I can't imagine Konami taking away too many licenses away from EA since it's a huge part of annual FIFA releases.

For all we know, "more licenses" could mean more licensed national teams, tournaments (Copa America, FIFA Club World Cup, Gold Cup), or even South American leagues like Uruguay, Argentina, or Brazil.

I've read that the Bundesliga and EPL deals expire at least in a couple years so no chance any of those appear soon.

I didn't understand not being able to have every Spanish stadium in PES, if they've the license of every team how they can't use them? If they could do the same with every team they've licensed it'd be fantastic.

Lol. No way they get our league in the game, it sucks so bad it isn't worth getting.

[rckabillyRaider]

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Give us the J-League already

Seeing as Konami did not renew the J-League license, I wouldn't be surprised if EA FIFA picks that up now.