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Fonte: TeamXBOXTwo series stand out when it comes to soccer games: EA’s FIFA and Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer. Although EA Sports series offer better graphics and sound, all football fans all over the world will tell you that Konami’s franchise is much better than FIFA. The numbers speak for themselves. The first-day ship-out of PES 4 for PlayStation 2, already released in Europe, has already topped 1.5 million units surpassing FIFA 2005 in the UK charts once again. Oh, and we were forgetting that the game sold 1 million copies on its launch day in Japan.
This holiday season Xbox gamers will finally have the chance to enjoy what used to be a PlayStation exclusive. Developed by the legendary producer Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka at Konami Tokyo, Pro Evolution Soccer 4 for the Xbox will mark the first time the series will be playable online.
Speaking to a gathering of reporters during the recent European PES3 championship held in the South of France, Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka talked about the Xbox version of PES4 (Winning Eleven 8 in North America) the PS2 version and what his future plans for the series are.
When asked about the Xbox version of the game, Takatsuka-San said: "The Xbox and the PC are more powerful and we can implement new player motions and AI. However this time it's our first try, so we stuck to a conversion to see how it goes. But in the future we would like to try out the difference. As a team, we designed the game for PlayStation and PlayStation 2 from the first game onwards, so even though the hardware is better, it's still quite difficult to make it better than the original PS2 version."
But before you think Konami Tokyo simply developed a port of the PS2 version “Seabass” explains that: "This is why we put the online element in Xbox because there was more space. If you think of it like a glass of water, there's just more room on Xbox to add more so we decided online should be it."
When asked about the lack of online functionality of the PS2 version, Seabass responded: "Well, technically it was quite possible in terms of having PS2 online. However when you compare the two first parties' infrastructure towards online - meaning Xbox live vs. Sony's Online Network- everything is virtually there, with the game servers and services and we thought this was a better choice."
The limitations of the PS2 hardware as well as the infrastructure of the PlayStation Online service might have influenced in making the Xbox version of PES4 the only edition featuring online gameplay:
"In the PS2 service, we have to create our own game servers and that kind of thing so that's why we had to pass on this one [PES4]. However, we already have PES running in the studio on PS2 online. So we're waiting for Sony to construct a better infrastructure for PlayStation and also the users be hooked up on broadband. I'm pretty sure we're going to have [online] on PES5 for the PS2."
Next Generation Plans
But praising the Xbox superiority in terms of hardware and online infrastructure wasn’t the only thing Shingo Takatsuka had to say. He also talked about his future plans and what kind of innovations we can expect from his team in the next generation:
"We predict that we'll have many more motions, we have loads of motion capture data of movements that we want to implement but, quite frankly, in the current console, due to limitations, we can't put them in. So, you know, space is one thing. Which totally opens up our new gameplay because we'll get more variations of dribbling or passing. You will see, right away, that there's a difference because there's more movement in there. Also, AI. Right now the team members have to consider 'will the AI process in this machine.' We're really holding back ideas that we really want to implement. So, in the next gen games we won't have to hold back that little bit more. We'll be able to put in AI to make attacking smarter, or defending smarter."
If you didn’t have enough proofs of Xbox Live superiority over PlayStation Online, “Seabass” added the following comment when talking about the next generation: "Also, the obvious is online. Our team has loads of ideas for online but we can't do it because we're almost close to the limit for PS2. We don't know the specs yet, but we're hoping that the next gen will provide us with more space and more power so that we can do all this."
PES5 para PS2 em princípio já terá online. Para PC ele não disse nada mas acho q ainda não houve anuncio oficial. Se tiverem links...
Espero que haja um PES como launch title para as consolas next-gen.
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