Konami has officially renamed the PES series to “eFootball”, and made it free-to-play and digital-only.
The dramatic shift begins with this year’s game, simply titled eFootball, which is due out on consoles, PC and mobile with cross-play.
eFootball, out this autumn, is built on Unreal Engine – another first for the famous football video game franchise. The trailer below shows off a brief snippet of gameplay:
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eFootball launches worldwide first on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, and Windows 10 and PC via Steam this autumn, with iOS and Android to follow soon after. A Nintendo Switch version wasn’t mentioned by Konami in its note to press this morning.