'No progress' for console 'Football Manager'

Sports Interactive has said that it is always looking for a console version of Football Manager.

Studio director Miles Jacobson said that the joypad control scheme hindered a port and he does not want to deliver a substandard experience.

"We still haven't found a decent control system for a joypad. We have people who are constantly looking at it. We will carry on looking at it. If we do have that breakthrough of working out how to do it then that's when it will happen," he told Eurogamer.

"The only people who've managed to take a typically PC-heavy game and turn it into a console game and make it work were Firaxis with Civilization Revolution. We tried to do the same thing they did and it still didn't work for us.

"We'll continue looking at it but I'm not prepared to give people substandard games. I believe we did do that on the 360 version because we couldn't get the right control method.

"Despite the fact that was making decent money, there are more important things than that, such as satisfaction of not only the customers but of us as well."

He added: "Hopefully we will have a breakthrough because we want to be able to entertain as many people as possible with our games."

Jacobson also said that another iPhone version is planned but the feature set has yet to be decided. It is expected to be released before Christmas or during Match.

Football Manager 2011 was announced yesterday for PC, Mac and PSP.