Gianni Infantino was re-elected on Thursday as president of the international soccer federation. At the head of Fifa since 2016, he took the opportunity to confirm that a video game stamped fifa it will market well. but without quoting directly fifa24casts doubt on a possible year without a release for one of the best-selling licenses in the world.
Who to succeed EA Sports?
Last year, the historic game publisher fifa he preferred to drop the famous name. Faced with an increase in the price of the rights of use, Electronic Arts has chosen to change the name of its soccer simulation ea sports fc. The episode fifa23 It was thus the last title developed by the EA Sports label teams. This transformation is also identified as one of the five challenges for the video game industry in 2023.
On the federation side, the position remains identical to the statements of May 2022: the best football simulation game will be stamping. fifa. However, if Gianni Infantino continues this course, no publisher has been officially chosen to take over from Electronic Arts. This suggests that the episode fifa24 will be sacrificed in favor of a development studio transfer window.
Earlier in the year, rumors of a partnership between FIFA and publisher 2K Games, already identified as a potential candidate, resurfaced. The subsidiary of Take-Two (the group behind the Grand Theft Auto games) already makes simulations of successful sports such as the basketball series NBA 2K or the one who is dedicated to wrestling WWE 2K.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino simply indicated that the information would be provided soon. Maybe they’ll wait until July. This would make it possible to enter into direct opposition with the former publisher Electronic Arts, which began a communication campaign in 2022, giving an appointment in July 2023.
Source: BFM TV
