While we are on the subject of the other football game I would like to offer my opinion as to where they go wrong, connection to the ball.
After being dissapointed for the 3rd time by PES, I spent, for the first time, a few hours playing FIFA. While I realised that it was going to feel different to PES and I had to get used to that to appreciate the game, no matter how much time I played something still felt wrong. When walking my dog later and thinking about things I came to the conclusion that the connection of my input to the ball was where the problem lay.
In PES I feel that my movement of the stick has a direct effect on the ball, as if the game puts me in the digital skin of the player and I am moving the ball. This is best demonstrated when you have a player with 90+ technique & dribble ability, every slight movement of the stick, when not running, will relate to a ball movement. A quick diagonal left and right will knock the ball from foot to foot, like you see in the beginning of the new Messi trailer.
FIFA on the other hand gives me a 3rd person connection to the ball, I am moving a character that has a ball at its feet. I move the stick, the character moves and as a secondary action he moves the ball. What you experience through your input is the weight of the player not the weight of the ball, this is what leads to people saying such things as "its like playing football on an ice rink" or "on the moon". It feels, in a way, that the game is not designed to be a football game but for instance what Grand Theft Auto might feel like if you could play football in it, your input controls the character and any contact with the enviroment is a result of that and therefore you are numb, you walk into someone you dont feel it... you dont feel the ball.
This, I think, is why alot of PES fans do not like the feel of FIFA games but as they do not give it enough time cant put their finger on exactly why it feels wrong.
The connection to the ball & the player stats that limit what sort of conncetion you will experience is what really sets PES apart, the problem recently is that it has become increasingly apparent that you can only move the ball through certain channels, its like a slot car and it makes the game feel very ridgid. If this has been removed I think that PES will be back to being awesome.