After the heated FIFA World Cup Finale ended with Argentina's win, EA released a statement about how it was able to predict the match's close-call results using FIFA 23's EA Sports tournament simulation with perfect accuracy, making it the fourth time the gaming company was able to land a correct prediction for the world's biggest football tournament.
The statement owes its success to FIFA's HyperMotion technology, which was already present within FIFA 22, but this year EA took it to the next level by incorporating more than 6,000 authentic realistic football animations to deliver a higher degree of sports realism than ever before. FIFA 23's capture technology is based on millions of data points taken from professional footballers, and its machine learning algorithm executes new animations in real time to create a natural and realistic football motion in every second of every match, bringing FIFA 23 even closer to the real sport we see in stadiums and world cups all over the world.
In the real match, the result was decided with penalty goals after a dramatic 3-3 tie wherein France's Kylian Mbappé scored a hat trick, then Lionel Messi skillfully leveled the score back again and took the reins of the match through penalty kicks. A similar result was predicted in FIFA 23's EA sports simulation, in which Messi was able to make the decisive strike in the final and score the Golden Ball Award. Mbappé is also seen in the calculations as the third best scoring player in the tournament at two goals behind Messi, which is something even harder to predict considering most of Mbappé's goals happened around the end of the match and the extra time.
Another correct prediction goes to the GK Emiliano Martínez of Argentina, who was able to win the Golden Glove award for goalkeepers both in game and in real life. This only goes to show how far EA's technology has come after predicting France's success in 2018, Germany in 2014, and Spain in 2010. It also proves that winning in football is rarely dependent on luck, and is actually composed of a variety of factors such as training, teamwork, and the natural aptitude of each player to achieve success anywhere and anytime, even in simulated realities.