The makers of Konami's blockbuster soccer franchise admitted that they are disappointed with Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 and that they tried to delay it, but failed.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 has been released across platform a month ago (but not yet in USA, where it is scheduled for Q1 2008). It has been a fiscal success, but critical reception has been lukewarm for a series used to being heralded as the next coming. The PS3 version, specifically, suffers from framerate issues.
PES 2008 lead developer Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka said that working on multiple platforms simultaneously hurt the project as a whole. "As a developer, we've worked the same way since the days of the SNES. We're simply not set up for multi-platform development," he explained.
"PES 2008 is so far from what we wanted [and] we thought about delaying it but different factors meant we had to release it," Takatsuka admitted.
The team had already started development of on the 2009 version but, according to Takatsuka, they're going to start over.