Topic: We don`t need EA on Switch !!!

@darkfenrir It`s far easier to milk someone when console is always online.

@OorWullie Everyone, that really thinks shouldn`t defend ea. Play their games, but don`t buy anything new.

@Whitewatermoose It`s better to play those mainstream games on XO or PS4 - that`s what they for.

Yes you do.

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We do need EA on the Switch, they bring to much to the table and if the Switch does better by having EA other devs are more likely to put their games for the Switch

I am just hoping that EA will learn from the back-lash, I'm not personally going to be going out of my way to buy their games until the dust settles and I see where they are going as a company. I also believe in the power of voting with your wallet, and as long as people continue to pay EA for Micro-Transactions, EA will continue to use Micro-Transactions simple as that.

In the past when game devs have done things I don't agree with but I still find my self wanting to play their games but not wanting to support them in their dumb decisions, I just buy the games from a second hand seller, like used at game stop ebay or amazon, that way I get the game without pirating, and without EA or what ever game developer at the time getting my money directly.

I play EA games on my PC and on my phone and I don't see why I wouldn't also want to have at least some of those on my Switch.

That doesn't mean that I endorse all of EA's practices though. In particular, they've never had a cent from me in microtransactions, nor are they ever likely to.

@premko1
" It`s better to play those mainstream games on XO or PS4 - that`s what they for."

Me prefer EA games , The Sims 4 on Switch. Not on ps4 / Xbox 1. Power doesn't matter for me.

@Anti-Matter its not power - its "always online" aspect

@darkfenrir You're not wrong. Look at the reviews for Gran Turismo Sport for PS4. Mostly 1-2 star reviews, and the reviews (and even critics) are all very upset about the game's always online requirements (you can "play" single player but it won't actually save offline.) And of course the X1 audience flipped the table and abandoned the brand after the "always online" and "just deal with it" launch. There's definitely a chunk of players on both platforms that do NOT want to be always online.

@Rusted_Gold I think EA has built their audience, and they've built it along the fringes of their mobile audience that is used to microtransactions. Their vision of console gaming is "a really pretty mobile game with button inputs". At some point I think it has to be acceptable that that audience is not our audience and the two don't need each other as they are separate ecosystems. In EA's case we get confused because we remember EA in a different era with normal games.....they seem like they want to shed that history now.

@NEStalgia

While most of EA's current games are loaded with Micro-Transactions, that's not all of their games, EA is a publisher and some of the companies under EA still try to make good stuff, they just happen to be owned by the devil.

I do not like EA as a whole, but having EA on the Switch still brings to much to the table, one example being their monopoly on the sports genre, I hate realistic sport games and have I never played a Madden game for more then 5 minutes, But Madden alone would still bring people to the Switch, and since no other company has access to my knowledge at least, other then EA having the rights to actually use Current NFL Players and teams, Madden is all we got for realistic football and losing that for the Switch is not good.

And like I said earlier if you don't like a company don't support them I will still be going out of my way to avoid buying EA games for the time being, but losing EA support entirely on the Switch is, and I hate to say it but more bad then good, right now.

I want EA UFC 2 on Switch. That's the only EA game I care about, and I play it all the time on my One X. It's not gonna happen, but I would certainly buy it again if it did.

If EA brings out 'Fe' on retail that will be one game I'm gonna buy.
I like Zoink Games and it doesn't matter to me who's the publisher.

@SKTTR

Exactly my point EA is an awful publisher, but they have to many good developers under there control that we need on the switch

I'd like to see Sea of Solitude announced for Switch. That's a promising looking game and they've not finalized the platform list.

A Way Out and Anthem are the other upcoming EA games that interest me, but there would doubtless be performance issues to overcome especially with the latter using Frostbite.

No EA mainstream game would bring anybody to the Switch because those people already have plenty of choices to play their games and have no interest in playing them on a Nintendo console. If one buy a Nintendo console is because of Nintendo games not because of EA games. Same goes for other companies. I'm extremely excited to have Skyrim on Switch but I would have bought Switch anyway even without Skyrim. And I won't have bought it if I was not interested in Nintendo games even if there was Skyrim.

This is a double edged sword.

I don't like EA but the European market is huge on sports games, crap Fifa are sold in their truck loads here, if EA nailed Fifa on the switch (which they didn't), it would have sold over a mill more units by now in Europe alone. Then you have games like Mass Effect, Burnout, Battlefield and The Sims that all do well here too, ignore the European market and you'll lose to your competitors every time.

I want Nintendo to do well, i want them to make huge profits and dominate the gaming market as this is their place but they wont do that without a huge publisher like EA on board, if you want to do well in Europe you need racing games fighting games sports games and FPS games, games that EA have a lot of, EA games sell very well here and continue to sell well, if you want to do well in Europe then you need EA.

Open worlds RPGs dont work here (i love em though), sure they sell but compare Skyrims European sales to that years Fifa sales and you'll realize what i actually mean (Skyrim sold 2.2m Fifa 12 sold 2.8m -). Mario games will lose to trash like COD every single time without fail here in Europe.

Those rubbish big named publishers like Activision or EA are unfortunately needed if you want to succeed in Europe (I'm from the UK).

If you want to do well in Europe (at least here in Italy) you need to have a different name other than Nintendo cause the mainstream audience here thinks that if you play anything else than Fifa and/or COD you are weird and pathetic and people don't want to be seen playing on a console with colourful and fun games.
It's not the fact that those games are not on Nintendo, it is the fact that Nintendo is Nintendo, none of those people would buy it anyway and wouldn't be interested to play their games on it.

@LuckyLand I dont know about Italy but i know that you are wrong about this when it comes to the UK, people here love Nintendo and they would buy more Nintendo if Nintendo had more Fifa & COD. you may not be attracted by those type of games but if you tell someone in the UK they can play console quality Fifa or Cod away from the TV they will bite your hand off.

I know France has a similar attitude towards their games, France is the home of Manga and Comics in Europe, so they like colorful things, i know they liked the 3DS as it sold very well in France due to the many Anime games that came out for it.

So as far as i know you are Wrong about Both the UK and France, Nintendo would do great here with publishers like EA on board.

@LuckyLand

I think times are chaning and people are less biased nowadays. Lots of people in Europe grew up with Mario, Zelda and Pokemon and know that its not just for kids. But you are right, there is still lots of people who just play fifa and cod - there will always be people who follow certain trends without thinking for themselves. I dont think that releasing those games on Switch will change those peoples minds - those people are generally up for the most powerful console and wouldnt play on the go - now that would look weird, wouldnt it.

Tbh, I'm thoroughly enjoying FIFA on Switch simply from a local multiplayer standpoint, and have already clocked the same number of hours on it as I have done BotW. I don't delve into its microtransaction-filled modes such as FUT, but simply use the game when friends are over etc. - and I'm loving it.

I do agree with some of the initial statements made, but as many have mentioned, it should still be offered as a choice to those who want to enjoy EA games.