FIFA 25 Will Be The "Best EGame For Any Girl Or Boy", Says FIFA President
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has promised the next FIFA "egame" will be "the best," leaving us all very confused as to what an "egame" is. At least it'll be the best, possibly because it'll be the only one.
The quote comes courtesy of Times reporter Martyn Ziegler (via Games Radar), who transcribed part of Infantino's speech earlier today.
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"The new FIFA game - the FIFA 25, 26, 27 and so on - will always be the best egame for any girl or boy, we will have news on this very soon," said Infantino, mirroring statements he made last year after EA announced its plans to rebrand the longstanding FIFA game series as EA Sports FC.
After 28 years, FIFA and EA's partnership collapsed last year after FIFA reportedly demanded $1 billion to extend its license. Balking at the billion-dollar price tag, EA instead dropped the FIFA branding and announced EA Sports FC, signing individual license agreements with smaller football leagues such as the UK's Premier League, Spain's La Liga, Germany's Bundesliga, Italy's Series A, and the MLS.
EA Sports FC is expected to get its first title sometime this year in place of FIFA 24. FIFA has yet to announce a new studio partnership, but given Infantino's comments today, it seems the football league won't have a new game ready until 2025 at the earliest.
As for the whole "egame" thing, we can only assume he meant to say "esports", but really, who knows? This is the same guy who said "today I feel like a migrant worker" and "gay" when he responded to criticism of hosting the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, a country accused of numerous human rights abuses. He also made a bizarre comparison to Rwanda's recovery from
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