UK studio to help Japan productions team for future PES

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DarthKebab

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11 May 2008
http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/p...uture_pes_games_to_be_handled_by_uk_devs.html

Konami and PES Productions are opening a new "football game productions" studio in London, VideoGamer.com can reveal.

The new studio "will create PES projects targeting high-end game consoles and PCs", in an investment that will allow PES Productions "to continue striving to reproduce European football culture at its best in their games."

The studio is currently staffing up for multiple positions, including designers, artists and programmers.

Konami will be looking for 'skilful' new staff at its booth at next month's Gamescom event.

"If you are interested in becoming a part of this amazing team, we are accepting entries in our Konami Group booth," said the publisher in a job ad for the studio.

"We look forward to meeting lots of passionate candidates who want to deliver the best football game for our customers."

Previous PES games, including this year's PES 2013, have been developed by PES Productions' Japanese studio, but could development of next year's PES be handed over to the UK team?

It was revealed back in May that PES producer Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka was not working on PES 2013, but "another game related to the PES franchise".

PES Productions London will be the second major UK development studio to open in recent months.

Earlier this month, VideoGamer.com revealed that Activision had opened a new studio in Leeds to head up development on Call of Duty games targeted at mobile platforms.

Konami provided no comment when contacted by VideoGamer.com this morning.
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Re: Japan not doing PES in future?

Clarified on Eurogamer, can a mod change the title please?

Konami has opened a studio in London to help make PES.

The idea is the dedicated PES Production Studio will work with the main PES team in Tokyo, Japan to help PES better reflect European football culture.

It will "strive to adopt and recreate local football culture that will ensure the long-running series is kept fresh and exciting", Konami said.

"These are hugely exciting times for the PES series," Konami boss Shinji Hirano commented.

"We are looking for a number of creative people who can help us elevate PES to whole new levels. As part of Konami's commitment to ensuring PES captures the majesty of European football, we are looking for people to help capture the very essence of the beautiful game and bring it to life."

PES Production Studio will work on games in the long-running series for high end consoles and PC.

Konami recently reorganised the PES team, with Kei Masuda taking over from series veteran Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka', who has moved on to other football-related projects.

Last month PES European team leader Jon Murphy told Eurogamer that getting the Japanese development team to have a deeper connection with fans was "not always easy".

"They're over in Japan and a lot of them don't speak English," Murphy said. "So there's a lot of filtering that has to be done on that process.

"I understand where the fans are coming from, because in past years we have talked about going down a certain direction and I don't think we've gone far enough down that direction. I don't think it's necessarily that we've not done what we've said. It's that we haven't taken it far enough in the past."

He added: "There have been company changes that have been made where, as a Japanese company we see dealing directly with the consumer as key to the development of products.

"There have been all kinds of forces at work."

The next generation PES is being made using Kojima Productions' Fox Engine.
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Re: Japan not doing PES in future?

A step in the right direction IMO.
 
Possibly one of the biggest and far reaching decisions in the franchises history.
At long last the Japanese developers are understanding the need to move from an in-house environment and take a fresh approach using design and development from other sources.
Excellent news for the PES community.
 
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