Football Manager's future 'is mobile, not console'

Soccer sim studio scouts tablets, cloud tech and microtransactions

Sports Interactive is currently swept in a fever of brainstorming and experimentation, the London studio’s manager has said, with numerous future platforms and technologies under consideration.
Miles Jacobson (pictured) said the group’s lucrative Football Manager series could in the future support tablets, cloud game tech and microtransactions, but the only idea off the table at the moment is console ports.

“We’re looking to hire six to ten engineers to work for us, particularly on next generation tech. And when I talk about next generation technology I’m not talking about consoles,” he told Develop.
“I’m talking more about mobile platforms and what’s happening in the PC and Mac world as well. We’re not looking at coming back to console.”
Sports Interactive, whose FM series has claimed more weeks atop the charts than Irish rockers U2, had a less than stellar success when the game arrived on Xbox 360.

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