Nintendo's French Boss Says We Should Expect More Switch Announcements From EA

The more the merrier but please just put some real effort into them.

I would take Dead Space and Mass Effect trilogies, thank you

'Rinse the player' is always an EA classic, let's have some of that.

That's a lot of copies of FIFA to just one country. Maybe sales worldwide weren't so bad after all?

Seems rather optimistic and speculative...
I'd love to get future Bioware games but now that Mass Effect, Dead Space & Battlefront have been culled or sullied, there aren't many games from them left I care about.

FE does look great though!

I am expecting Loot Box '19: The Ultimate Game of Pride. Requires mandatory 17 GB download before patches.

EA. Literally all I want from you, is a Mass Effect Trilogy remaster. That's it please.

Pre-order Link's Lootbox Gamblappaloosa (Master Sport Edition) now and you will also get a Golden Zelda Mask for your horse and unlock a pre-order exclusive character, Link.

Give me peggle

I am sure they are going to have madden so you can play it everywhere.

Switch sales are strong in France, it's set to overtake Xbox One sales in the next few weeks. Plus it's the fastest selling console ever in Italy. So it's not just limited to US and Japan.

I would like EA to give us proper follow ups to 2 of their best Wii games. Grandslam Tennis and Tiger Woods 10.The Motion Plus controls in those games took them to a whole new level. Just think what the improved motion controls of the Joy-con could add.

@OorWullie Does EA even make golf games any more? Seems like ages ago that the last one came out.

would like to see any starwars including starwars battlefront 2. most certainly NHL 18 or 19. and battlefield 1 or next. graphics will be scaled down but who cares. bring it on. deffinetly need sports like nhl.

NHL!

Fifa World Cup would be great o/

I'd love a new MVP baseball but the last one came out nearly 15 years ago. Dead Space trilogy + Extraction would be great.

Well if they put some effort on it I'd have Ronaldo's reaction in the thumbnail, but as of now, I'm unimpressed. Will wait for actual concrete announcements instead because EA obviously can't be trusted.

To be honest, the current state of EA games are so bad (due to the loot boxes) that I'm not really interested on anything and I must add, I was one of those that purchased the Fifa to support the platform even though that game didn't have all features and had the full price.
I would like to play game like Star Wars, Need for Speed and Mass Effect but not with all the BS that EA does with their games.

FIFA 18 FUT on switch is ultimate garbage. The servers run like ****, dunno if it's EA or Nintendos fault but someone should be ashamed of themselves. If you are in FIFA for the FUT experience DON'T buy it on switch.

@OorWullie Not to mention HD Rumble. Imagine feeling the grass and ball when you smack the ball with a driver. Good stuff.

All I want from EA is Madden on my Switch!

The Sims 4 for Nintendo Switch, No Watered down version, same as PS4 / Xbox 1 and i will Live Happily Every After !

@OorWullie How about third entry of Bloom Blox I think would work well with the Joy-cons.

Dear EA: Give us a new Mirror's Edge game!

I'll never understand the odd praise Boom Blox got the first time around. It was so hyped for Wii. I bought it and discovered it was a cute but finnicky and ultimately boring digital Jenga with explosion animations. Didn't get the hype then, don't get it now.

Still...it didn't have microtransactions and gambling mechanics so I suppose I still have to rate it as one of EAs best games compared to BFII, NFS, etc, so, yay?

EA, like Capcom, just doesn't have many active franchises anymore. We all love the running theme of EA has no games on Switch, but really, EA doesn't have very many games at all anywhere. Their whole business model now revolves around microtransaction milking of a few broad appeal franchises, and those franchises by virtue of being broad appeal are going to have limited appeal to actual game enthusiasts.

Yes! This means we shall get two games on the Nintendo Switch in 2018 from EA instead of one! Awesome! Terrific! Outstanding! Ingenious! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Unravel is coming.

It would be really awesome if Madden, Hockey, and if EA made a Baseball game . We only have RBI... It's been 7 years since EA put Madden on a Nintendo console....

@NEStalgia Your whole thesis for EA is unfairly prejudiced to say the least.

Anything starwars, and Madden please.

Switch would be perfect for some of EA's more unique, classic games! Revive Road Rash, or Skitchin,' or make a new Haunting, or even a new Boom Blox!

So we can finally put to bed the claims that FIFA bombed and EA would be unhappy with sales.

A few of us said after release date that it would have legs and this year was always about building a userbase on nintendo hardware.

Glad to see it passed the test

More FIFA please. With online play with friends next time.

Star Wars games on Switch... OR ELSE!

I've been over this elsewhere. This is some guy from Nintendo France saying this, why haven't EA made a public statement? Where's the new support from EA, where were they during the Direct yesterday?

@Cosats It's not a bias to say EA is leveraging very, very few of their franchises at present, focusing on iterative releases of those with most broad appeal and a focus on maximizing the monitization of them through continuous payment schemes. That's their actual model at present.

Looking at their monetary success, it's easy to see that's a profitable model, at least for now, but it's also going to appeal to the broader market a lot more readily than the kinds of enthusiasts participating in forums such as this.

Idk, I mean financially it makes sense to get aboard the Switch train, but it seems An EA official would be saying this. I love FIFA, but that Switch version was....lackluster. If they want to bring over a better version, ok, but this was the first FIFA in years I stopped playing FIFA before the season was over.

Anyway, what games would I like see? Honestly I have little faith in EA giving me an actually GOOD sports game, or I would say FIFA and Madden. So dead space, mass effect, or Star Wars would be something I’m interested in.

Mass Effect and Dragon Age (oh and Kotor) are all I'd want.

Just port over BioWare's back-library and I would be amazingly happy

I just want ALL and ANY Star Wars games on the Switch!!!

The beginning of an unprecedented relationship.

@FragRed I think the last one from them was Rory Mcilroy PGA Tour in 2015. He's only had the one golf game to his name. Not sure what happened the last 2 years. Maybe it didn't sell too well without Tiger's name attached to it. It doesn't even need a name, just PGA Tour would do surely.

@Yasaal Yep, it could be great. The sensor at the bottom of the Joy-con would actually have some use too.

@LaytonPuzzle27 Yep that would be good. Steven Spielberg was involved in the original game, not sure about the sequel.

@QwertyQwerty
The UK has always been Sony country, even the Vita kept selling there despite it being a lost cause.

If I can avoid it I don't buy EA games but I bought FIFA at Christmas when it was on sale as I wanted a footie game for the Switch and sadly there was no alternatives (Konami could have had my money if they'd brought PES).

Most of EA's games are garbage but if they do ever release a good Star Wars game that isn't based around loot boxes I hope it comes to the Switch.

More gimped ports?

Sure, they will keep dumping games like Fe into it.

@OorWullie it didn't sell well but it got horrible reviews.

Regarding future EA titles. Madden 19 won't get announced for months yet, same with NHL and FIFA World Cup 18.

Have no doubt the sports titles are coming to switch later in the year.

I quite enjoyed Fifa on the Switch. I’ve no need for another though.

I’d be interested in Madden however.

Please NHL.

@Agramonte Nothing wrong with Fe, try harder

Need for speed and burnout pls

@SLIGEACH_EIRE EA’s contribution to the mini direct was Fe.

Well, that Fe is a start. I'd like to see more efforts like that.

@FragRed I agree, but I'll come out directly and say it:
EA is a crap company that is destroying gaming, through this "games as a service" notion, and we would probably be better off if they went away.

I understand that people seem to be excited by in-game microtransactions (why? I have no idea), but if you support that, expect to see more and more of this crap idea in your games.

@Cosats I totally disagree...in fact, I would like to point out (please pay $4.99 to see the rest of this comment)

@Gorbash333 People keep mentioning Star Wars game(s) from EA.

There really is only one. And it's not really that good.

I'm pretty sure most want FIFA (in Europe) and Madden (in the US).

@LaytonPuzzle27 I’d go for another Boom Blox. Game was a surprise gem and beautifully captured how to properly capitalize in the Wii’s casual audience. It got my now Mother in law in on the fun and led to her buying her own Wii

@Hikingguy It was associated with Spielberg? A floating block Jenga puzzle game?

...I just read a history of it. And you're not joking. That....is the most bizarre celebrity placement I've ever seen. They, and Spielberg seem to have gone full fantasy in pretending he designed the game..... Which sounds great until you realize he's not a game designer, has no history of puzzle design, and likely was incapable of actually designing the game. It's a little funny. Everyone in the game business making 8 hour interactive movies wants to be a budget Spielberg. And Spielberg wants to be designing mobile puzzle games.....

It's one thing to tie him for promotion or to say he approached them about creating edutainment games. But to pretend he actually designed it..... He's no more a game designer than Miyamoto could produce a watchable Jaws.

Funnily enough years later Microsoft trotted out Spielberg and Lucas talking about Quantum Break.....a merger of gaming and film that I could fully believe he had involvement in.

@AcridSkull That's an indie game they're publishing. We've known about this for ages. Where's the evidence "that EA is expected to "double down" this year" on Switch? FIFA 18 came out 4 months ago and they've committed nothing since.

@NEStalgia Boom Blox is great. The sequel, Bash Party, more so than the original. I'd love to see another entry.

I would love to have an NHL game on Switch. I think the last hockey game on a portable format was Gretzky NHL or NHL07 on PSP.

@NEStalgia Not sure why it would be that much of a stretch or bizarre. He says he came up with the idea for a game to play with his kids. EA excuted it. I get the distrust with EA. But I’d doubt Spielberg would lie about his involvement with the game. And again, i dont see it as that outlandish that a creative guy came up with a concept and a video game developer brought it to life

@gortsi Most people do not care about Fe. Why it is a 19 dollar digital only game. It is a side project.

EA would go bankrupt if that is all they did this year.

N H L N H L N H L
That is all I want.(is to feel this way)

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Interesting, I hadn't realized there even was a sequel! With a name like Bash Party I think I just started glazing over with the Wii library all looking like shovelware and ignored most third party offerings. They ported Boom Blox to mobile eventually, but it doesn't look like Bash Party ever made it...

@UmbreonsPapa Perhaps that's what happened but they listed him as designer which he surely wasn't. That was marketing more than anything else.

It depends how extensive an idea he came up with, but I'm not sure if "famous leader among unrelated industry comes up with game idea based on 150 year old wooden block game" really counts as "designer".

Something tells me if Damien McFerran, author of this article, had suggested the game, he would not be listed as "designer." on the credits and trotted around to marketing events

@Hikingguy Yeah. Basically that. Next up: Paris Hilton designs a mobile game based largely on Pick-up Stix.

These games for Switch would be nice but I doubt EA would listen, they never listen:

Burnout franchise
Need For Speed franchise
Titanfall franchise
Dead Space franchise
SSX franchise
Mass Effect franchise
SimCity franchise
Madden franchise (I know I don't want it but a lot of my folks do)
NHL franchise (like Madden I know I don't want it but a lot of my folks do)

@GC-161 I understand your point. It is just one game so far. But it's more so coming from a place of EA having the monopoly on Star Wars games, we want to show them that they WILL sell on the Switch, so that we can get all of the future Star Wars game as well.

So are we just gonna totally ignore the fact that EA said they were pulling all support for the Switch last year or is everyone choosing to forget that tidbit of fairly important information?

I just want A Way Out and the Plant vs Zombies Garden Warfare games.

@ThatNyteDaez eh. Maybe because EA never came out and actually said no more switch support indefinitely. What the representative of EA said was they were waiting to see the demand before they commit to any more projects.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE you said "where were they during the Direct yesterday?"
I'm pointing out where they were.

@OorWullie What would that be used for? I'm intrigued. The only usage it ever had was that pizza eating minigame in 1-2 Switch

It would be interesting to see what EA could bring to the table which Nintendo failed to do.

In the past decade I've learned to not expect nothing from EA when owning a Nintendo platform. Nevertheless, it'll be good if they bring their PS3/X360 hits like Mass Effect and Dead Space in remastered editions like Dark Souls.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
Are you suggesting the Nintendo France exec is lying?

Not to pop anyone`s bubble but EA hasn`t done any remasters. Last official statement is that they rather look forward than backwards. That being said, Burnout Paradise is being remastered so that could be a change in policy for EA. So maybe all consoles will be getting the original trilogy of Mass Effect remastered that everyone wanted. I`m not holding my breath though.

@ThatNyteDaez Fe isn't quite "pulling all Switch support"..... Might not be their big games, but they haven't pulled support. It would be rather silly for them to do so since their competitors are enhancing support. They don't have to go whole hog and start working on Battlefield 1 for Switch, but they have to pay sufficient lip service in material to say "see we're in all markets our competitors are!"

@kuliddar Roadmap statements like "We'd rather look forward" should always be taken as meaning "as based on our 6 month plan and current outlook." They have a substantial back catalog as an asset, and they certainly would never commit to NEVER leveraging it. They just didn't have immediate intentions to do so when they said that. And they were putting all their eggs in the "we believe in games that collect ongoing payments" basket. Until the internet exploded and started pointing fingers to them and not to Activision.

Would love both Madden and NHL, even if gimped.

EA UFC or GTFO.

@FragRed i thought EA only made lootboxes now with bonus 3 hour game included

I would love Criterion to make an F-Zero game bringing jostling destruction (but not weapons!) on to the circuits!
I would love to see SSX 1080.

@Anguspuss EA: Get In The Game

@Gorbash333 The only Star Wars game from EA that I wanted to play was cancelled.

Battlefront 2 has a craptacular story mode (in terms of story - the gameplay is fine). If we get that I guess it will be ok. But not really ideal, IMO.

Sounds like Nintendo spin, nothing concrete

FE isn't even made by ea, it's just a indie game they are publishing

@QwertyQwerty
I grew up in France and I remember the whole country got taken away by storm when the Super Nintendo came out. I lived in a remote place, and not a wealthy place, yet ALL my friends had it within a year or two. Brand loyalty has remained very strong since then I believe (I moved from the country over 10 years ago).

@WhistleFish if FE wasn't announced for switch you can bet that you would have been putting the daggers in saying how EA wont even publish an indie title on switch.

Mass Effect Trilogy.

I’ll buy anything Star Wars.

@GC-161 You mean the one that Visceral was doing. I don't think it was cancelled so much as moved to a different studio. Yeah, they will probably change a bit, but I think we're still gonna get it

@Gorbash333 That game by Viseral was scrapped and cancelled because it was too focused on being a single player experience. EA demanded that it be more online multiplayer friendly. But that forced the dev team to spread itself too thin trying to make two games at the same time.

The one you're talking about is an open world game. A game that will be more of what EA demanded from Viseral.

@QwertyQwerty
Good to know how it was back then (across the pond ). It'd be really interesting to understand the factors that made certain brands be successfully in certain countries (and vice et versa). I wonder if it's mainly marketing or is it something cultural too...

@SLIGEACH_EIRE the big bucks are in 4K gaming, man. That's where the money and focus is.

Also, everybody knows Nintendo fans don't buy 3rd party games.

Didn't we just get a FIFA game? Surely you can play World Cups in that without needing a separate World Cup game?

@gatorboi352 Also, everybody knows Nintendo fans don't buy 3rd party games.

You couldn't be more wrong with that statement. These best selling third party games didn't just randomly get Player's Choice or Nintendo Select status by themselves, they had to sold million of units first to get that status. They wouldn't get that status unless a lot of Nintendo fans or customers bought the original versions.

@gatorboi352 You're still dwelling on the Wii generation. Let it go.

I think the only EA game I would buy now is a Mass Effect Trilogy remaster with all DLC on disc/cart. They apparently have zero interest in doing that for any system though.

I don't watch hockey, I don't enjoy it all, but I find the NHL games fun. So maybe NHL. Fifa and NHL are both guilty pleasures of mine, but I'd never buy them for full price or anything.

@KryptoKrunch How about Extraction, Dead space Trilogy & The mobile game (which wasn't bad at all) remasters for the Switch? We can always dream...

@retro_player_22 Leave him be, he's one of the gloomiest people on the site - bordering on Trolling.

@FragRed

lol

I want them to bring back NCAA Triple Play Baseball

When they decide to re-release their PS3 games, all you will read on Nintendolife is 'day one purchase', 'must buy' and 'omg third party support'. Smh

@OorWullie grand slam tennis was fine for the time... now with those expensive joycons I hope that they would at least upgrade the gameplay. But don’t worry: we’ll have a braaaand new Mario tennis... tsk!

However I sincerely do not understand EA:
We all have seen switch enormous sales, so I think that they should bring every sport game to the switch, but for now nothing seems to appear at the horizon... 🤪

@BigKing Why smh?

Don't know if EA is necessarily the company i want to see near my console.

What ea games 🤔 can’t think of any.

@GrailUK Because those are games from 2 generations ago. You shouldn't applaud lazy cash grabs

If I wanted to play PS3 games, I would buy a PS3 for €40 and games for €3

Keep em coming EA, as long as the games and the quality of the games are good, sales will be great as well.

@BigKing It's a much better way of turning a profit selling games to people who have not played them than selling loot crates. Companies don't see any revenue from second hand sales. Yada yada yada. Besides, it's nice to have access to as many great games on one console, especially one as flexible as Switch. I never played Skyrim or Dark Souls, so for me it's nice to be able to play re-mastered versions of them for the first time. But please don't think that because I wasn't playing Skyrim or Dark Souls back in the day, I wasn't playing games at all. Just other stuff. I don't feel obliged to play the flavour of the month.
And it's a minority that want to clutter their homes up with multiple consoles. (Hey, I'm in that minority lol)

@Agramonte "EA would go bankrupt if that is all they did this year.

Fingers crossed!

More sport games please! FIFA 18 they tailored for the Switch. Although a bit less content than on the other plattforms, it's still a very solid football game and works well both docked and handheld. What FUT need is more players! So bring on NHL and Madden +++

I don't think there are any EA future games that I am looking forward to.

However old Bioware remastered games would be amazing, and I know people are saying they are not looking at doing remakes. But if they want to bring back mass effect in any way after Andromeda then a remastered trilogy is the only way I can see that happening.

None, really. Keep EA’s micro transaction fetish away, since that is all it’s games are about nowadays.

I so hope for they Disney takes away EA’s Star Wars license.

F*ck EA and their business practices... but, give me UFC.

@WiltonRoots yeah, they reported 2.1 billion dollars in sale for the quarterly on Tuesday - you should hope for something more realistic 😁

@Agramonte I know, I can only hope...

@WiltonRoots lol!, power to you!

I went to college in the North East. Tons of my college friends had Madden in their dorms. Always seemed a better choice to start off with in the State.

Or maybe not. I find EA success sometimes hard to understand.

Ughhhh EA. The one and only thing I would really want to see is the Mass Effect Trilogy ported to the system.