olodude said:
rumour has it that konami are trying ot get the england national team licensed for PES5 like in PES2.
I think EA had the foresight with FIFA series to get an agreement for all the licences earlier on. Also from FIFA for national teams. This was done back when FIFA was the only good footie title around.
Now, I feel its not fully Konami's fault as well. Everybody wants a piece of the pie. I feel that some teams/leagues are holding out for more money. Also some times national associations can be sticky as well. (remember the Oranges). What about Ronaldo. HOw long did they take to get his name into the game.
Probably Arsenal/Chelsea agreed as part of their marketing plans for Asian region. Could also be that being the top two teams in EPL, Konami HAD to get them licenced at any cost.
IMO Konami negotiating with individual teams/leagues/associations would deifinitely be a more costly affair than getting a blanket licence. Eventually it may come down to whether its really profitable for therm to do so.
I feel KOnami shoudl probably go in a different way. Use your game as advertising. WIth such great sales figures, maybe teams/sponsors should be paying to get their names into WE/PES. Not sure in the case with Adidas. (who's paying who ). Wouldn't it be great if companies like Mcdonald's, Fuji , Siemens, Toyota all paid a little to get their boards into the game. (just like real life stadium sponsors eh?)
But then again, with this type of deal, some ppl might want exclusivity as well.It's a step in the right direction, but I don't want to see only items from any single party.
Like I said in another post, For the kits, since many national kits are so generic these days (Adidas/Nike). They could licence a sampling of common kits. Then should keep these licenced templates in the game, and provide an option to 'copy as base'. That way you could use Brazils Nike kit, and make copies for Turkey, Holland, Mexico, Korea, just edition the colours. Badge editor can remain as it is.
Cheers