ISS Pro Evolution became the Pro Evolution Soccer we all know today with the release of the first PS2 title in 2001. The real test of FIFA vs PES sales comes with the turn of the millennium. + 4 Half-back passes to centre, back to wing, back to centre.
Already it struggled to keep up with FIFA, which was selling well each year as the hype around sports video games continued to grow.Ĭonsistent sales figures for video games are pretty hard to come by from those early years, but it's likely that FIFA edged out the competition in the international market, with the Japanese-developed Konami franchise performing better in Japan. Konami's first attempt at a football game followed on the PS1 in late 1995 - known as World Soccer: Winning Eleven in Japan, Goal Storm everywhere else. It quickly became the best-selling game of the year, with over half a million units sold. This absolute classic was released for the Mega Drive and later ported to consoles like the SNES, Game Boy and more.
The FIFA series was first to market in the football sim arena with FIFA International Soccer in 1993.
