EA Can't Comment On Switch Successor But Admits Improved Platforms Are "Good" For Business

Think of how good FIFA Legends will look on updated hardware!

I wonder if they would know much since EA supported the switch so lightly

give us the chicken nugget already

Can't wait to play FIFA 23 on my New Nintendo Switch 2 in 2024

You can keep em, EA

E A sports its in the dlc

Nintendo could make a portable ps5 and EA is still gonna put the same game on it.

I hope they make Madden for the new system….tho I guess I won’t be too disappointed if they don’t bc I have it on Steamdeck….

Yeah better system usually does mean good business...

The first sentence of this article says “EA has shown ongoing support for the Switch Generation”. What is Nintendolife smoking to make that comment? Where’s my Madden or Sims 4 on Switch? EA’s FIFA series with all its Legacy Editions was an insult to Switch owners as well.

This is really funny... EA has shown ongoing support?!? Lol. Really where?

@Danrenfroe2016 @diamondjim the support consists mainly of the ea originals.

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And then there’s apex legends, burnout paradise, need for speed hot pursuit, plants vs zombies and fifa.

Still waiting on Mass Effect Legendary Edition 🫤

The Switch 2 is in a better position than Playstation 2 when that launched. Granted, we know nothing about it, but if third parties aren't chomping at the bit to support it, then something fishy is going on. Now, a successor isn't going to capture the imagination of the blue ocean as much as the og so it will have it's work cut out. But if the PS2 proved anything, software sells consoles (ok, and a DvD player lol.) Luckily, Nintendo have said this from the beginning. They just need to be as prolific as they have been (and that's the part that excites me the most; and also wonder how on Earth they are going to manage it!)

Yes, and wheels are typically round.

Just say no comment lol.

Honestly from EA the only thing I would want to know if they're going to support it with more games than 'Fifa' and indie games.

EA has been shocking with their lack of support for Nintendo since the early days of the Wii U when they seemingly got burned. Madden admittedly is a shell of its PS2 heyday these days but I'd still love to see a version on Switch.

Even after Switch selling 135 million consoles worldwide, EA haven't even brought a 'legacy version' of Madden to Nintendo's hybrid. What a joke of a company they are.

@Friendly Hot Pursuit is cool but I'd rather have the PS2 game, Hot Pursuit 2.

It's one thing when desperate tabloiders unironically ask third parties for unreleased and unannounced hardware news, but looks like some shareholders deliberately decided to demonstrate a similar level of logical thinking. And with these guys influencing so much behind the industry's scenes, are there even any other questions left? ¯(ツ)/¯

They think we don’t deserve Madden.
I think they don’t deserve my money.

no one cares ea.

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson admitted he couldn't "comment on anything that has not been announced", but was happy to welcome new hardware and improved power:

In other words EA has seen the Switch 2 hardware and knows the spec and running performance. Does that ring a bell anyone.

@Burning_Spear At least it's something I can buy once the year elapses and I can just download an updated roster. LOL

Too bad they won't give us a Madden legends so I can do the same thing.

Yet EA rarely supports Nintendo's new systems with the BS line of: "there's no install base," yet they put their games on PS/M$ when they release new systems with the bs line of "install base will be there eventually"

The only Nintendo system to not have a massive install base was the WiiU and while they supported it, they also released half-butted games on it.

What's funny is that those games for the most part sold better on a Ninty system than the HD twins.

Improved platforms. So why barely if any EA presence on PSVR? We had Squadrons and the Star Wars Battlefront AT-AT test. Hmm. Where are the PSVR2 supported games. Oh Meta Quest like Ubisoft and others because userbase size gotcha.

Same with Wii U, if you had more of your family IPs on Wii U sure but your mature ones yeah you left the Wii U and Vita quickly. Wii and DS has Sims/My Sims and certain others of Medal of Honor. Same with GameCube. N64 no because cartridges well they did have I guess Sim City 64 on the 64DS or certain games. But mostly went with Sega or PS1 in that era and Sega they did less due to sports games.

Moved to mobile and messed up there but kept trying because of that install base and finally got rich from there.

Companies say things but unless a large enough userbase they don't care about us, how improved a console is, how much was the Xbox One being what PC DRM was and PC gamers were like no thanks you ruined DVDs for us goodbye, hence the garbage Xbox One used games situation pushed by third parties not just Microsoft, or the 'little amount of money' they can get from us unless it's MTX.

Also unless they have something interesting enough to sell us besides sports and live services of Sims/Apex and more and some decent games why should I care.

I'm happy buying up NFS 2 on PS1 or Road Rash. Or ProStreet/Shift, I don't need their current games they don't have much convincing me at the moment really. Immortals of Aveum did, their Indies do but well Aveum was going to flop either due to release date or like with anything veterans make fair games but still stick to trends or like Nightingale understand how to put a BETTER spin and originality to a genre not barely try.

Some devs just don't try hard enough. Players don't care I seek gameplay in the weirdest of appealing ways (Balan was my Rayman 3 suits game, yeah weird right to like a game for that, it's fine it has issues, I've played many broken or AA over ambitious games it wasn't anything that foreign to me, but still I didn't have high expectations for it either, I know who made it, what was going on but still), most seek dialogue, story, voice acting, themes, graphics and anything else.

Their Indies do well because they may get funding but don't have as much nonsense in them.

So to me any game can be appealing and flop because I'm the minority looking weirdly for gameplay ideas the rest of the gaming community doesn't so to me most I think are cool enough flop. Any AAs I see those cult followings and well their safer bets. Or other Indies. But I'm not supporting some nostaglic Indies there is too many. People can get them their fair ideas and qualitybut I don't look for repeated ideas refined I look for new ideas or old but freshed not something so obvious space old popular games or last months/years.

Racing/shooters/platformer research has made it clear what great left behind there is, what ideas were great and what are repeated from nostalgic favourites and are really uncompelling games.

Jedi Survivor didn't do it for me I wasn't a fan of it's direction. But that's on Respawn and whatever critics/fans say but it wasn't for me.

Dead Space Remake is probably fine.

@Edd-O I mean their WiiU support was pretty lousy. Launching Mass Effect 3 by its lonesome without 1 or 2 while launching the Trilogy on other systems.

Personally I'm still upholding my boycott of EA games since Command & Conquer 4 so its irrelevant to me what games they release. But EAs 'strategy' on Nintendo platforms is so off kilter to what they'd do with the exact same games/series on Xbox or Playstation that it's hard to believe they ever really expected to see any significant success on it.

What I read: "More power means less optimisation for us, so more money made for much less spent on quality when we copy paste our games every year."

@Friendly got it. I don't know what Apex Legends is, but the name sounds like a mobile game.

@Danrenfroe2016 it’s a hero shooter, maybe a bit like overwatch? Or the new game ‘the finals’. Something like that.

@Friendly ok. Free to play in guessing?