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No screenshots. Not even a title screen. No game videos, preliminary or otherwise. Barely a reference to what the genre is. Not a very good announcement for a game, from a strictly technical perspective.

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Don't worry, it'll be the #1 FIFA-branded game when it comes out. That's nothing to do with it being the only one, of course.

EA has released FIFA-branded games. Netflix is not alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_(video_game_series)

It's nice to check your own references:

> it was announced that EA and FIFA's partnership of 30 years would come to an end upon the termination of their licensing agreement

> As a successor to the FIFA series, EA launched the EA Sports FC franchise, with EA Sports FC 24 being the first installment under the new name.

Up-to-date FIFA-branded games are not a thing currently, which is what they obviously meant.

There was not a requirement for them to be up to date. Only that exists.

They don't exist anymore. They've all been delisted when the partnership expired.

I can walk into a gamestop right now and pick up a copy of EA's Fifa. They still exist.

Nothing about how to play it either, on the press release or the linked page about Netflix games. Just "on selected TVs with your phone as a controller". Why do companies make it hard?

My phone is the controller? Fuck that. I assumed one could play Netflix with a Bluetooth controller of some sort, as with Apple Arcade. Is FIFA a one-off, or are all Netflix games controlled with your phone?

Nor does the developer’s (or publisher/financier/co-developer?) website provide any additional details or information. In fact, as far as I know, it has not released any games yet (a 007 game is scheduled for 2026).

<https://www.delphiinteractive.com>

EDIT: the delphi website stores all files on website-files.com which is owned by Webflow (a no-code website builder).

I think the FIFA brand name has enough weight among its target audience that they know what genre it is. The rest, well, it’s a sign that whoever’s running the marketing doesn’t understand the gaming audience and whoever’s in charge is either inattentive or unaware enough to let that go out and try to treat it more like the typical tech market, which hasn’t worked out well for stadia, Amazon, etc

It's not much of a game. You play as Gianni Infantino, you sit at a desk while representatives of oppressive regimes hand you envelopes of cash to help whitewash their country's human rights abuses.

Hmm, you've got the gift-giving (it is the season, after all) backwards. We all saw Gianni Infantino stand by the desk, while HE gave a gift (a tasteful gold trophy, not a grubby little envelope) to the aforementioned representative of the oppressive regime.

To, in your words, whitewash that country's human rights abuses ...

You think FIFA gives away playoff spots for free?

Secret bonus round: You invent a trophy to hand to a narcissistic twat running the world's most powerful country.

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