EA has introduced that it’s going to reveal EA Sports activities FC 26 later this week, and has confirmed one of many recreation’s cowl stars.
The reveal of the yearly soccer recreation will happen on Wednesday, July 16.
EA has additionally introduced that retired Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic would be the cowl star of the sport’s Final Version. Zlatan might be added to the sport as an icon merchandise, celebrating his profession, which included stints at Barcelona, PSG, Inter Milan, and Ajax.
It’s additionally been confirmed that the sport will launch on Nintendo Change 2, alongside Nintendo Change, PS5, PS4, Xbox Collection S/X, Xbox One, and PC later this 12 months.
Final 12 months’s recreation, EA FC 25, was met with optimistic evaluations and fan sentiment at launch, however neighborhood consensus across the recreation rapidly soured as a result of recurring gameplay points, a few of which the neighborhood has complained about for a decade.
These points contributed to the sport failing to satisfy its monetary expectations. EA boss Andrew Wilson tried to elucidate the problems in February.
In line with Wilson, EA FC 25 began robust with a “prime quality and steady launch”, and with “pre-orders, engagement and participant monetisation” all up in comparison with the earlier 12 months, however did not proceed this momentum.
Wilson says the 2 important contributing components to this have been “gentle ‘top-of-funnel’ acquisition” – a decrease variety of newcomers becoming a member of the collection for the primary time – and “a lapsed engagement later within the quarter”, with gamers shedding curiosity within the recreation ahead of ordinary.
He additionally defined that extra gamers than anticipated continued to play EA FC 24 as an alternative of transferring over to FC 25, resulting in slower development within the newer recreation.
“Whereas early acquisitions began out robust, post-launch acquisition cohorts waited longer within the cycle to use the brand new title, as many stayed in prior iterations,” he stated.
“Mixed gamers in our full HD experiences have been flat year-over-year. This mix-shift and slower new participant acquisition account for about half of the title’s underperformance versus expectations. Softer than anticipated engagement made up many of the relaxation.”
