Before every recent World Cup, EA has run a simulation of the entire tournament in its annual soccer game series to predict the winner. The publisher may have lost the official FIFA license, but that hasn’t made its predictions any less accurate. It has now accurately predicted the winner of five consecutive World Cups.
Spain’s 1-0 victory over Argentina on Sunday, earning the country its second World Cup trophy, means that EA’s flawless World Cup prediction record now goes back 16 years. In 2010, EA’s simulation predicted that Spain would win for the first time. In 2014, 2018, and 2022, the publisher correctly called it for Germany, France, and Argentina respectively.
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