EA Sports correctly predicted the World Cup winner for the fourth time in a row.
Before the tournament, use exclusive World Cup rankings in the newly released World Cup Kickoff and Tournament modes to FIFA23which predicted that Argentina would win.
After an eventful final, Argentina defeated France to win 4-2 on penalties, ending the match 3-3.
but, EAsOther predictions, such as when England would finish the tournament and who would win the Golden Boot, were wrong.French striker Kylian Mbappe closed out the tournament as the top scorer.
In 2018, the publisher pinpointed that France would win the tournament, but in 2014 it declared Germany would win and did just that.
He also correctly predicted that in 2010 Spain would win the World Cup for the first time ever.
EA is less successful at predicting winners of other major sports tournaments. The publisher used Madden’s game to predict the past 11 Super Bowls, but was only correct five times.
But Super Bowl XLIX got it right with amazing accuracy, not only choosing the right winner, but as EA said, the New England Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 perfectly. predicted to
Accurately predicting the winner of the NHL Stanley Cup, which has been failing for the past five years, has not been particularly impressive.