Championship Manager To Score For Xbox

Sports Interactive (the team behind the ever-popular series of Championship Manager games) and Eidos Interactive are pleased to announce that the best-selling football management simulation is to be published on a video games console for the very first time.

Sports Interactive has signed as an official Xbox video game system partner, and is looking to bring Championship Manager to Microsoft’s highly-anticipated console for its European launch.

Miles Jacobson, Managing Director of Sports Interactive, is delighted with the partnership. He says: “Championship Manager has never migrated to any console before. Until now, the machine simply hasn’t been built that could handle it. However, with its built in hard-drive, Xbox is more than capable of coping with the demands of a game like Championship Manager, and we feel that it is the right platform for us to be published for our first foray into the console market. We have no doubt that owners of the Xbox will want to play Championship Manager as much as PC owners have over the past ten years.”

“Championship Manager is more than just a game - it’s a way of life to the legions of wannabe coaches who devote their spare time to guiding their chosen team to the top of the table,” says Sandy Duncan, VP Xbox Europe. “As Xbox is the only video games console that can do justice to this amazing game, we are looking forward to introducing a whole new audience to the joys of virtual football management.”

John Davis, Marketing Director of Championship Manager Publisher Eidos, adds: “While Championship Manager is as big a name in our portfolio as Tomb Raider or Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, the fact that it has never been available for any video games console has meant that we have not been able to take it to the mass market in the same way that we have with those games. With the game available on Xbox, the sky’s the limit.”

Championship Manager will be released in the first wave of European titles for the Xbox launch.