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Konami’s PES 2016 soccer game lags behind FIFA without women and corruption

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Konami announced its PES 2016 soccer video game today in advance of the Electronic Entertainment Expo next week. An interesting question for the competition with Electronic Arts’ FIFA 16 rival soccer game: Will Konami’s game thrive because it doesn’t have women players?

When EA announced recently that it would have players from 12 women’s national teams from around the world, it won a lot of praise. But it also brought out the worst in the Neanderthal men of the Internet, some who said they would boycott the FIFA title and play something else instead. Add to that the FIFA bribery scandal, and you have an interesting change in the rivalry, where EA’s game traditionally dominates.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.