World Tour Soccer: Challenge Edition (WTS) is the PlayStation Portable

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 version of the popular PlayStation

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 and PlayStation 2

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 game This Is Football

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(TIF), created by SCEE's London Studio.

WTS featured very similar gameplay as TIF but was not a direct port of its forerunner as a number of areas were enhanced - particularly the challenge mode referred to in its title.

WTS has emulated TIF's success by selling over half a million copies in PAL territories and was a launch title for the PSP in September 2005.

As a result of its success, a sequel to WTS was developed by SCEE and released as World Tour Soccer 06 on 26 June 2006.