Konami have confirmed that this year’s entry in their soccer sim franchise, PES 2017, will be launching n September 15 this year- which is two weeks before EA Sports launch FIFA 17 on September 29.
This year’s game hopefully continues the franchise’s recent resurgent trend over the last few years. Speaking of the competition with FIFA in an interview with GamingBolt, Steve Merrett, who works at Voltage PR, the firm handling PR for Konami in the UK, said that “[Konami] are focusing on what [they] are good at at the moment.
“And now that they’ve added various things, like proper transfer deadlines and training and stuff like that, it’s going to make it more engrossing. We’re just going to continue to refine what’s in there. I think that we are always up for coming up with new ideas but they’ve got to be bolstering the PES experience. Because gameplay is key, you buy a game to play it and that’s where we want it to be.”
PES 2017 will be launching on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.