Right now, soccer fans across the globe are wondering how their nation will fare at the upcoming World Cup in Brazil. Usually some company finds a psychic animal to "predict" the results: Paul the Octopus for the 2010 World Cup, an Indian elephant for Euro 2012, and this time a panda.

Equally curious about the future, but lacking a clairvoyant creature, we popped in the PlayStation 3 version of the recently released "World Soccer Winning Eleven 2014: Aoki Samurai no Chosen" ("Blue Samurai Challenge") to see what might happen next week with the Japan national team in particular. The "Winning Eleven" series is known overseas as "Pro Evolution Soccer," though this particular version is exclusive to Japan.

While "Winning Eleven" doesn't feature the actual World Cup, due to licensing restrictions, it does have real national team players. That made it possible to run a simulation pitting the computerized Blue Samurai against virtual versions of Colombia, Cote d'Ivoire and Greece, the teams Japan will face in Group C in Brazil.