Rebranding Pro Evolution Soccer toeFootball As a free game it was nothing short of a disaster. Instead of announcing a whole new era for the Japanese soccer game giant’s KonamiThe game itself received some of the worst reviews in game history, and was voted the worst game of 2021 by most gaming sites.
eFootball or like Pro (as we Israelis like to call the game), is released every year for PlayStation, Xbox and PC consoles, but these were Nintendo players who over the years suffered from neglect and did not receive a customized version of consoles of Nintendo.
Another year ago, Robbie Ron, brand manager at Konami, said in 2018: “The enril engine will allow us to be more flexible about which platforms the game will be released. I can not promise yet, but I think we’re getting closer to the switch. Whenever we announce a new game, people let us know they are still waiting for the switch version.
For comparison, the Nintendo Switch version exists for the competing brand of EA – FIFA, and was first marketed in 2018. But unlike the regular console version, the Switch version was considered much simpler because the game ran on an older version of the EA Frostbite engine.
But unlike previous years, game optimization technology, especially on devices like the Wallab switch or even the thin stick, makes it difficult to understand the difficulty or desire to develop such a version. There can be no good reason why there is not Konami’s game on the switch. The game is on smartphones for the sake of the name.
Marketing Department of Epic For the enril engine claims that the engine is “Unified Content Pipe “ For all platforms, ie the engine supports the direct launch of game development directly to the Switch. In fact, some of the most successful titles in the Switch were created on the Enril engine. Maybe it’s because of the unsuccessful launch that caused Konami chiefs to give up on the idea as long as the game is unstable or because it doesn’t have enough content in the meantime. In the end we do not know, Konami since 2018 has not released a statement regarding Peru and Switch.
Konami was a huge disappointment at the launch of the game, most of the blame is indeed on the company, but it is still worrying to think that next year’s eFootball title will be the last in the series due to the lack of success. Let’s hope Konami catches their hands, brings the competition back to life, and maybe adds a version to the switch, more gamers playing the game will not hurt anyone.