RoadHazard
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EA Will Bring One of their Bigger Games To Nintendo Switch
- Thread starter Jonneh3003
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FIFA at launch with a good marketing campaign could do well.
Guy plays FIFA at home online.
Goes into train and plays a bit of master league on the Switch.
Guy then on his lunch break at work pulls out his Switch. While another Co worker pulls out his Switch. Similar to the NBA video a bunch of Co workers play 4 player FIFA between 2 Switch devices.
FIFA is really huge I think if the system is £200 like the rumours suggest and some shops do some exclusive FIFA Bundles this has a chance to take off. Just as long as the game is similar to the full console versions from PS4.
Guy plays FIFA at home online.
Goes into train and plays a bit of master league on the Switch.
Guy then on his lunch break at work pulls out his Switch. While another Co worker pulls out his Switch. Similar to the NBA video a bunch of Co workers play 4 player FIFA between 2 Switch devices.
FIFA is really huge I think if the system is £200 like the rumours suggest and some shops do some exclusive FIFA Bundles this has a chance to take off. Just as long as the game is similar to the full console versions from PS4.
Let's be real Mass Effect would run like shit on Switch. It's going to be Fifa.
Portugeezer
Member
FIFA yay
Little Monser
Banned
In before Peggle 2
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
EA pulled this crap last time and then blamed Nintendo for poor sales. Nobody was buying 3 -month old ports of Madden on a graphically inferior system.
They've at least claimed in the past that once they get Frostbite up and running on a platform, it's relatively easy for them to port other titles over.
FIFA/Madden, Plants v.s. Zombies, and Star Wars seem like the obvious places to start. Probably no Madden until that's on Frostbite as well.
I would also suspect that unless the launch is a disaster, they won't abandon the platform in 2017 and we'll at least get some fall games.
FIFA/Madden, Plants v.s. Zombies, and Star Wars seem like the obvious places to start. Probably no Madden until that's on Frostbite as well.
I would also suspect that unless the launch is a disaster, they won't abandon the platform in 2017 and we'll at least get some fall games.
infinityBCRT
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Mass Effect 3: Armored Edition.
mrmickfran
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Titanfall on the go.
Methamatics101
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FIFA
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*Legacy Edition
*Legacy Edition
thepenguin55
Member
I don't entirely agree with you but my thinking is based on:
1. Games like Madden and Fifa are givens.
2. They've had enough time to make Battlefront 2 happen on the Switch. (which definitely is questionable)
3. They know that (with their sports games excluded) releasing games that are close to 6 months old for the Switch won't do shit for them. It didn't work on the WiiU and it won't work here.
4. Taking all of the above into account then the only two games that make any kind of sense are Battlefront 2 and Mass Effect and its definitely not Mass Effect.
Anyways, that's my train of thought.
Maybe I'm kind of shallow, but the one thing that makes me not want to buy multiplatform games on Nintendo consoles is the lack of an achievement system. If they just came up with some kind of system feature to show off game achievements, whether it's points, trophies, stickers, whatever, I'd at least consider buying a multiplatform game on it.
Though, portable play is a rather nice advantage.
Though, portable play is a rather nice advantage.
What are you talking about? EA didn't blame anybody.
It was just not worth it for them to release games on Wii U anymore.
And Fifa and NFS on Wii U are really great games, too bad that Wii U owners didn't buy them despite the long droughts that Nintendo bundled with the system.
Jonneh3003
Banned
Mass Effect also runs on Frostbite and might be launching just 4 days after the Switch, I know it isn't likely but I think that's such good timing when you're looking at whether to support the system or not.
Bethesda won't even confirm Skyrim will be on the Switch which says all we need to know how ironclad Nintendo's NDA's are.
That isn't convincing.
Jonneh3003
Banned
Perhaps not but I'm glad a mod put that in the OP, good to split the facts from my predictions.
aygomyownroad
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Fifa: Legacy edition
Mobius and pet octopus
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Plants vs zombies 2
family_guy
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Maybe Madden. We haven't had football on handhelds for awhile.
LordRaptor
Member
This assumes Disney literally do not give a fuck what happens to their IP and are fine with whatever EA tells them,
Not targeting you in special, but I've seen this stupid joke in this thread too many times. To have a legacy edition you need to have at least one new FIFA on that system.
And Wii U didn't get any legacy edition unfortunately.
Did we get Battlefront 1 on Wii U? No? There's you're answer about Disney. If Switch doesn't provide the market needed for it, Disney can't do shit.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Can you blame them for not buying them though? I doubt many people bought a Wii U and didn't already own a 360, PS3, or PC. Why buy NFSMW for $60 on Wii U when you could buy it for half the price elsewhere? If someone didn't buy it elsewhere already, what would persuade them to buy it now? The additional Wii U features?
peanutbutterlatte
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Boogie 2
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Rogue Squadron 4. Make it so.
Yes, I can. NFS was practically a remaster. Just have a look how well remasters are selling on the other consoles.
Horsemama1956
Member
I think they mean it would be on an older engine since Switch is probably weak. I could be wrong.
That's not what FIFA legacy means. FIFA legacy is the exact same game with a roster update.
Stilton Disco
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I'd love a portable Mass Effect, but it'll most likely be FIFA, which is absolutely the right call. Way wider appeal and better chance of financial success.
xaosslug
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basically.
Jaded Alyx
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A remaster? Released 6 months later? That's a port.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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FIFA. Bookmark it
DXB-KNIGHT
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Frostbite on a Nintendo platform is out of the question and I'm not talking about tech 😂
Horsemama1956
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...An older version of the game(360\PS3) with updated rosters.
Then about what are you talking?
There is a FIFA 17 on PS360. If it's a port of that is still not a Legacy edition. It's stupid to call a Legacy edition the first FIFA on a new system. But I doubt they will invest in porting the old engine.
Jonneh3003
Banned
I'm not that tech savvy but if it's a big EA title it probably uses Frostbite which is the engine powering Andromeda. The specs on the Switch don't need to match up with Xbox One and PS4 for it to run ports especially if it's running everything at 720p (might not be). I don't think its impossible.
We've barely seen anything of Mass Effect Andromeda running on a normal PS4 or Xbox One. So it's hard to point out if it's possible.