RavageDark
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Let some people tell it, you'd think the Switch is slightly less powerful than a 1970s computer.
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"EA SPORTS FIFA on the Nintendo Switch"
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Let some people tell it, you'd think the Switch is slightly less powerful than a 1970s computer.
Jaded Alyx
Member
What is the typical ea sports customer?
NeonZ
Member
It wouldn't really add much. NBA Street for the GameCube got some Mario characters, but without the usual gimmicks that come alongside them (items, special attacks and such) they don't add much value. They'd need a game entirely designed around them, not just some models thrown in a random sports game.
Some other genres could work better though, like if they added Nintendo characters to a random Lego game, I could see it being a selling point.
pretty done
Member
Forreal. I don't get how devs and pubs can be this clueless.
Ubi should AT LEAST be porting a Origins/Legends double pack. I'd buy that.
OfficerRaichu15
Member
I bet some of them would have a Switch.
Pretty sure EA is the biggest console 3rd party publisher in the world.
They don't need a special version to run FIFA. The reason EA keeps do these "special versions" of Sports games on Nintendo consoles is to produce a low budget cash in game instead of putting in the effort to properly port the game. I understand this approach for the Wii, but the Wii U inexcusable as it performed on the level of the PS3/360. They just aren't giving a proper investment into the platform. Perhaps they should outsource the ports and save the heartache when there games sell like shit because no one will be buying deliberately poorly made games in the interest of saving money.
Stop making excuses for EA's bad behavior. We've seen similar fuck you's on other platforms as well from them, yet gamers lap up whatever they put out because of their marketing and monopoly on Sports and some long running popular franchises.
WaterAstro
Member
Graphics will definitely be below the PS4/Xbone versions, but they'll probably have all of the feature.
Not sure about big online modes like FUT. Depends on their release date, since it's not FIFA 18, it's probably releasing much later. EA doesn't risk money and wants to evaluate based on safe releases first.
And definitely no single joycon controls. The game is so damn complicated with controls that they can't skimp out the analog stick.
Not sure about big online modes like FUT. Depends on their release date, since it's not FIFA 18, it's probably releasing much later. EA doesn't risk money and wants to evaluate based on safe releases first.
And definitely no single joycon controls. The game is so damn complicated with controls that they can't skimp out the analog stick.
Dead Man Typing
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AlexFlame116
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Opinions mate.
Oh yeah I forgot about that one. Good point.
This part stills baffles me. Why didn't they do this??? I know that you have many of Origins' levels in Legends but you miss out on the story and the rest!
Or just anything else but fucking Steep, really.
What does that have to do with anything the other poster wrote? Them being the biggest doesn't mean they know what they are doing. Their current Switch lineup certainly shows they don't.
nhlducks35
Member
People keep saying this, but I don't see anything to back this up
Monty Mole
Member
If it's so easy to port the PS4/XBO version of FIFA 18 to the Switch, why wouldn't EA save themselves a bunch of money and go down that route, rather than developing a special version?
if they're doing what they normally do it won't. it will be 2015-16 or whatever gameplay with some core modes, team updates and new kits.
Anti Nintendo bias obviously
The system has had a successful launch and forecasts has the system outperforming estimates. The system also appeals better to the demographic that would buy a FIFA game.
TwistedFreeze
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Well this is the same company that released an older versions of Fifa for the Wii U, despite it being on par with the PS3/360, and released Mass Effect 3 for $60 while the PS3/360 got the trilogy for the same price, if not less. In all honesty, when it comes to Nintendo, I've come to expect the most nonsensical desicion from them
So they just lucked into it lol. Yes the only smart companies are the ones that support Nintendo. Maybe they realize the people who are actually interested in their games are mostly on PS4/X1.
Back what up? That fifa could be big on the switch? I wonder what gave them that idea?
"Special" version would be the same version of 3 years ago that would be even easier to port. You really think EA would make a Switch version from scratch?
Shang
Member
Based on anecdotal evidence, I disagree. The people I've seen with switches and who have expressed interest in my switch are absolutely FIFA people
TwistedFreeze
Member
If they're bringing over any of their games to begin with, why not do an adequate job? If you're just gonna half ass it, what's the point? That doesn't benefit anyone
UberTag
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The GameCube could handle just about anything that the Xbox V1 and PlayStation 2 could muster and it still failed to attract much in the way of third-party parity.
This isn't just a technical limitations issue.
This is a "Nintendo's third-party relations suck" issue.
Half-assing it lets them crow about "supporting this high volume yet inferior" platform to shareholders and that's all they're ultimately interested in.
They pulled the same shit with the Wii.
It would be smart to test that shit with one actual full-fledged title, even if the graphics don't look as nice as the ones on the competitors hardware, instead of just assuming things.
90% of Switch owners right now are male with 69% being 19-34 years old. I bet those are all people who won't ever consider buying a FIFA game. Lmao.
It's one of the most popular multiplayer games on the planet on a portable system you can bring anywhere. It's pretty self explanatory.
Who and where was it determined this game is a bad version?
Guess what the Wii U had the same demo and games failed. This demo stat is the most useless thing ever and continues to be thrown around as some proof Western 3rd party games will sell sell. A majority of neogaf fits in that demo and people's taste in games here couldn't be more diverse.
I seriously hate this type of posts. This isn't about hoping for ports, it is hoping that an already announced game is decent.
Alebrije
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Maybe the guy at the far end...
AquaWateria
Member
Its not expecting them but actually have publishers care to provide a decent port, not a half assed one that fucks over your customers.
Like EA why even port if you are not gonna even try.
TwistedFreeze
Member
If it's just a legacy version of the title, which is the impression I'm getting, then, yeah, it's a bad version of the game. If it has the same features as the PS4/XB1 version, than it's a competent version
Pyroclastic
Banned
Fifa 13 on wii u was a very good effort and look how that turned out. If the switch is a sustained success and they're still putting out really gimped version then I'll be annoyed.
I'll still mad we didn't get a proper stab at fifa on the vita with the collision engine though. I would have been playing that until this came out probably
I'll still mad we didn't get a proper stab at fifa on the vita with the collision engine though. I would have been playing that until this came out probably
DigitalScrap
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I just love how so many people are already saying it is going to suck and won't be a "competent" version strictly based on a name given... how about we actually wait and see it first?
It could be great, it could suck, but I don't understand why it seems so many have to assume it is going to suck... unless this is just more anti-Switch rhetoric.
I'm willing to wait and see what they deliver. It's fine to have tempered expectations (since the Vita FIFA offerings were pretty bad), but to definitively say this is going to be bad without even seeing it seems a bit ridiculous.
It could be great, it could suck, but I don't understand why it seems so many have to assume it is going to suck... unless this is just more anti-Switch rhetoric.
I'm willing to wait and see what they deliver. It's fine to have tempered expectations (since the Vita FIFA offerings were pretty bad), but to definitively say this is going to be bad without even seeing it seems a bit ridiculous.
TwistedFreeze
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Wasn't the one for Wii U the previous year version of the game on the old engine? How was that a good effort?
MrPressStart
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I think i am going to wait until e3 to see what they say. Surely somebody can get an answer then.
LFMartins86
Member
Who exactly is the current audience who own the Switch and why aren't they the audience of FIFA?
We are talking about EA's best selling franchise and the second most selling yearly franchise.
DigitalScrap
Member
Yeah, who did the survey that shows us the current demographics of Switch ownership? I'd like to see a link provided that shows that the current audience who owns the Switch isn't the audience of FIFA.
People are just making stuff up now. I agree, FIFA could be HUGE on the Switch - it is the perfect multiplayer game.
We'll see what EA has cooked up soon enough.
Yeah, I don't think you can easily classify the Switch's audience like you could the Wii U's. Switch owners seem to be hungry for more than just Nintendo games as games of many different genres are doing great on it. Some unexpectedly well like Bomberman and the neogeo games. It's also been cool to see NBA Playgrounds stick around the top 5 selling games over here in the US for so long.
Pyroclastic
Banned
It wasn't totally on parity with the 360 and ps3 version, but it had the new tackling system introduced in 12 I believe, and a lot of the new nuances when the series had that refresh. Unlike the vita version which was stuck on the fifa 11 way of doing things. It played well for me, it being ea and a console which looked doomed from the outset it could have been a lot worse.
Maybe they are intending on just releasing one version of the game for Switch...and maybe they'll just release yearly roster updates for it via dlc.
It would make sense not to give it a specific year number if they intend on having one version they can sell through the life of the system.
As far as what will make this version different..one would assume it'll be built for 1 on 1 local play with two joy-cons..all the way up two 8 on 8 matches via 8 linked Switches. Local mulitiplayer will clearly be a strong focus.
It would make sense not to give it a specific year number if they intend on having one version they can sell through the life of the system.
As far as what will make this version different..one would assume it'll be built for 1 on 1 local play with two joy-cons..all the way up two 8 on 8 matches via 8 linked Switches. Local mulitiplayer will clearly be a strong focus.
They did for once. Nvidia made sure of that.
TwistedFreeze
Member
Well, sure, it could have been a lot worse. Doesn't excuse them from bringing over an outdated version of the game. At that point, you're practically sabotaging the game and might as well not bring it over at all if you're not gonna even try
I fully expect that to happen, even if the Switch continues to sell very well
family_guy
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Low time and cost investment to EA. They can put juniors on the project to get them familiar with game development while their top talent is working on other projects that will net them more money.