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EA announces ‘FIFA 19’ PS4 esports tournament
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Yea, I saw the announcement a few days ago.
I am more interested on (if any) the conference Sony will have at Paris Game Week.
If there is nothing to show, it will only intensify my suspicion for a PlayStation Meeting early next year.
Now that I think about it, I haven't played a FIFA game since the PS1 era with my cousin. Gee, it's been a long time.
I am more interested on (if any) the conference Sony will have at Paris Game Week.
If there is nothing to show, it will only intensify my suspicion for a PlayStation Meeting early next year.
Now that I think about it, I haven't played a FIFA game since the PS1 era with my cousin. Gee, it's been a long time.
Pretty much marketing, yeah. Pushing the e-sports makes people think of their console when they think of the game.
There is money to be made at those events, and it gets the Sony marketing for PS in general.
Yes, is basically "free" publicity and in the case of SFV, Sony basically locked an entire community/genre into their system
Deals like this are going to be massively important soon and they already kind of are
It's like branding and advertising at sports venues like soccer and basketball or deals with food chains etc
SFV and Fifa are the most significant deals Sony has done this generation. Sure, on the surface FIFA is far more significant. I've stated previously that that deal was single handedly keeping XBOX afloat in Europe. But that SFV deal consolidated an entire community under the PS4 umbrella. Every peripheral, specifically fightsticks stopped making fight sticks for the X. That's a lot of licensing money, residuals and royalties to be going to one publisher.
You can still find XB sticks but outside of Hori It's difficult to find a quality fightpad or fightstick designed to be used with the XBOX.
Remember how last gen people would buy 360 because that's where the competitive players were? Basically that but to PS4 this gen for certain genres.