Everything would seem to indicate that the company Electronic Arts would not have been able to reach an agreement with the International Federation of Football Association to continue using the famous acronym (FIFA) in its soccer video games.
Since last October, EA had begun to analyze the possibility of having to change the name of its next soccer video games. In recent days, rumors about a possible name change began to sound increasingly loud, so much so that some managers claimed that the acronym FIFA could disappear forever from their franchise.
EA Sports FC would be the name of the new Electronic Arts football games
Thanks to an expert journalist when it comes to video games, Jeff Grubb, the information was known that EA would have given “green light” for the name change of this historic franchise to take place.
For now, the name that would have been chosen would be the following: EA Sports Football Club. Similarly, it is analyzed to reduce said name to EA Sports FC. Of course, there are other names that are still being analyzed, although this is the one that has sounded the loudest in the offices of Electronic Arts.
Could Konami take advantage of this situation?
Although the version of FIFA for mobile phones, as well as the one found on consoles and PCs, continue to be leaders when it comes to soccer video games, the Japanese company Konami would be “rubbing hands” to take advantage of this situation.
Having renamed their soccer video game franchise, now called eFootball, Konami would be planning to make a very important monetary offer to be able to include the acronyms “FIFA” in the name of their next video games.
Being just a rumor, we believe that this will remain just an idea, since Konami does not have the resources to take over the rights to these acronyms, why? Because from FIFA they have asked EA for more than €1 billion so they can continue to use those acronyms.
With nothing more to add about it, for now FIFA 22 for consoles and PC, as well as FIFA Mobile, will continue to be called that until the end of 2022. Once the current fiscal year is over, EA will have to change the name of its new soccer video games.
