Wowzers lot of posts to catch up with overnight!
Yes Fifa probably did always sell more, however the market share between about 1999 and 2007 or so was a lot closer, PES/WE used to sell many millions a year, it's only in recent times that certain markets have seen Fifa outself PES by 25:1 and such. Konami had a real opportunity to stride ahead with PES 99-07 but for whatever reason they chose not to, they chose not to reinvest some of the hundreds of millions of $ the game was bringing them in into licenses, they chose not to invest into building up ML, I'm shocked that I basically stopped playing PES at PES5 and started again with PES 2013 and ML is essentially the same, couple of additions here, including some magic boots and that's about it, I'm someone who only plays manager mode, career mode etc exclusively, I know I'm in the minority but between PES5 and PES 2013 have they seriously invested no time, no money in expanding ML to appeal more to the likes of me? That shocks me.
Well said.
Personally I don't for one second believe that EA or anyone else forced the Stadium editor out of PES2014, more likely as someone intimated it's due to technical reasons or something, maybe they are having such an issue with framerate (see raingate) that allowing people to move stadium elements all over the place would create a situation where videos showing the game running at a really bad framerate would/could be posted online thus causing a PR shitstorm, just speculating obviously.