Sega and Sports Interactive have announced Football Manager 2020 Touch for Nintendo Switch. The game will launch on Nintendo's machine in late November, shortly after its arrival on other platforms.
As you can likely tell by the name, the 'Touch' edition coming to Switch sits most closely in line with the versions coming to smartphones, and will likely keep the simplified format seen in previous years. The standard 'Football Manager 2020' release has so far been confirmed for PC, Mac and Google Stadia.
Hardly any real information about the new release has been shared just yet - the first details are expected to be revealed in mid-September - and the new trailer doesn't give us much to go on, either. You can see it below, but be warned that there's some not-so-perfectly bleeped out swearing within:
One thing we do know so far, is that the Google Stadia version is set to be the "fastest way to experience" the game. Miles Jacobson, Studio Director of Sports Interactive, has shared the following in a press release:
"Football Manager on Stadia includes technology that is only available on that platform, utilising the power of the cloud and Google's data centres to ensure that more matches can be processed in parallel utilising spare bandwidth across the whole system – this means you can have more leagues loaded into your save, or just go for a faster experience by keeping the amount of leagues the same, but having the matches process quicker than you can on any other platform."
So there.
Despite its flaws, we enjoyed our time with Football Manager 2019 Touch on Switch, so here's hoping the series can bicycle kick its way to new heights with the 2020 edition.
Are you a fan of the series? Will you be spending every living hour on the new game when it arrives? Let us know with a comment below.
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@Savino SECOND!!! tbf I have no idea why people do this.
Anyways, so they are just giving us the smartphone game again, meh. Some companies just can't be bothered can they
...Third?
Oh well, never mind!
There's zero incentive to get this on Switch when it's more accessible (and presumably cheaper as has been the case) on my phone.
i was going to say fourth, but someone ninja'd me...@Savino This is why I get first comment, so no one else must suffer with it.
It's a lonely job but someone has to do it.
It still baffles me that they could port the regular Football Manager 2014 Classic to a PS Vita, but have issues with porting essentially the same game to the Switch.
Smells like BS
Still waiting for SEGA to issue a physical release one of these years.
The irony is that I would probably prefer these games to FIFA or PES, but considering the high price and file size, I just can't justify caving.
"the Google Stadia version is set to be the "fastest way to experience" the game"
Well, Google really has unironic faith in western internet infrastructure. Then again, they wouldn't be doing this Stadia thing otherwise.
@Savino I can no longer reliably claim 'First' because I've got so many people on Ignore that there's always a chance someone has posted before me but I can't see it. I congratulate you in this instance.
@gamer95 Your avatar takes me right back to the quarter final of CL 94/95!
Never played this, but if I were to play a football game I'd take a punt on this instead of fifa or pes.
The only thing a majority of streamed games do faster than downloaded ones is get refunded
Never heard of the Google Stadia. Sure I know, I’m out of the loop... all I’m thinking is “Wow, what a fitting name for something that runs Football Manager so well!”
@Rayquaza2510 er the vita version was not the full fat PC version. It was the equivalent of the switch and tablet version.
@VoodooTrumpet well considering the smartphone is the mobile edition I expect it to be cheaper. The smartphone game is not the same as the switch and tablet edition.
Every year we always get people claiming the switch version is the mobile game but more expensive and every year you get proven wrong.
No real goal keeper looks as buffed as this Wilson on the thumbnail of the video, btw.
Stadia will die a quick death. I don't how all these analysts have jobs as the so out of touch and 90% of the time they are wrong
Can be as fast as the flash but what's the point of no one wants too buy it
and... nobody cares. NEXT!
Maybe I'm just an Xbo/ntendo fanboy, but I legitimately do not understand why anyone would want a Stadia. Playstation? Sure, I don't want one, but I understand it. Stadia? Just.. why?
You can play games instantly, but get ready for that sweet sweet lag. Also, get ready to find out about your ISP's data cap
So basically neither the Switch or Stadia version are the best way to experience the game 🙄
FM2019 is on PC Game Pass - I'll wait for 2020 to land there also. Play the real version for $10.
Eh, I don’t even know if I’m getting FM this year, I’m too far into FM18. Won the Europa League with Hartlepool and am now slowly inching towards my first Premier League.
@chewytapeworm Google's platform for streaming games over the Interwebs via their cloud infrastructure. Pay for 4K streaming in November (or eventually get 1080p for free) and you buy the games a la carte. Lots of big names are behind it - Ubisoft, Bungie, Squenix, Namco, even CDPR - and it's definitely one to watch out for. (I personally think that it'll crash and burn, but I'd love to be proven wrong.)
@Savino The best way to play is whatever is most convenient for each individual player. For me, I will probably go Stadia for this game because it is the full version of the game unlike the Switch version and I can play it away from my TV also.
@Friendly Tim Wiese
"Google Stadia version is set to be the "fastest way to experience" the game."
Actually, it will be the fastest way to be Failed in the market.
I prefer All Star manager/ much more fun
Runs fastest on Stadia? Fine, I'll call it the Max Power version then.
@kobashi100 You sure? FM14 Classic on PC and Vita was really the same (I'm talking in both cases about the Classic one)
@suikoden Believe it or not, there are already Stadia fanboys on Reddit.
People defend the dumbest purchases. Fanboyism is quite sad.
@VoodooTrumpet haha, true. Didn’t know he started again, but now he does look like this keeper and even more pumped up
I really get the feeling Stadia is going to bomb pretty hard. They keep trying to advertise it, but I just think there are too many people out there with not good enough connections to use this service.
Probably a perfect fit for Stadia TBF. I’ll get it on Switch though, it’s a really good portable timesink and I don’t play games on my phone.
Who cares about Stadia, really? I mean, there are so many things going against it that I hardly see anyone out there being legitimately interested in it.
First, there are too many issues related to connectivity. ISPs, especially in the US, are moving towards imposing more bandwidth caps, not less. Add to that whatever equipment and software in-between the user and the ISP (routers, VPNs, etc...), the rising prices in many places (we just downgraded our connection ourselve because it's becoming ridiculous), AND, the fact that you're rarely alone in your house doing stuff on the net if you have a family. What if I'm on Stadia, my wife is trying to watch Netflix on her tablet, my son's downloading something on Steam.... on a variable 25-50mbps connection shared among us all.... Yeah, right.
Oh, and let's not forget the fact that even if you "buy" your games on Stadia, there is NO GUARANTEE WHATSOEVER that you'll be able to play it in, let's say, 5 years. There's no physical cart, you can't keep your downloads on an SD card, there's nothing you can do about it if Google retires a game from its service because the game publisher lost the right to its freaking soundtrack. Even if you paid full price for it.
And Google also has a proven track record regarding killing off apps and stuff that fails to meet expectations. So... yeah.... interested?
That trailer is just a video of people ranting and screaming, not about the game at all. If I want to see people ranting and screaming I'll go and watch Dragon Ball Z and Super instead.
I’m sure the Google Stradia version will be a nice version.... for the 1 to 2 years before Google shuts the service down.
Had to go cold turkey on this series long ago, it devours far too much time. Still, I miss the simple old data of CM2 and 99/00 with text only games and searching for "interested foreign based" players and destroying the Scottish league with my dominant Rangers team.
It is obviously faster on Stadia... It's a dedicated datacenter. I would love to play Stadia using my Switch. Who knows, maybe...
@Realnoize I am interested and I even preordered the founders edition. The service is promising and I want to support and try it. I will let you know how it works. Anyway not leaving the Switch. In Stadia there are maybe 3 games I am interested in, on the Switch I have like 50 games already downloaded...
Would have considered the regular edition on Switch.
The issue is while Smug Switch owners will still be playing this on the train home a year or 2 after it comes out. Google Stadia mugs will be left out of pocket 10 months down the line when they cancel it. Google the worst company for ditching stuff.
@Anguspuss Yeah Google +, Google Glass, they don't have a good track record when it comes to their latest experimental market entry gimmicks.
@Realnoize Yeah I think those are good examples of why Stradia could only work as a paid subscription service. Like, make it $10 a month to play whatever games you want on it, I could see that working. If they actually try to sell games on it like On-Live it will share the same fate.
After watching MetalJesusRocks' video about Google Stadia I just laughed, knowing that I was right all along.
Stadia devours your bandwidth and data. People want to play this on your phones? Enjoy your monstrous phone bills. And I hope you don't also want to stream movies and YouTube on your PC, you better have home internet with well over 1tb a month if you're gonna play more than a few hours of stadia and movies a month.
@JayJ
I also think a "Netflix-like" service for games, priced fairly, could be something interesting if there's a varied enough offer of games available for that price.
But then again, a passive service like Netflix can use buffering to compensate for the ton of things that can affect your immediate bandwidth. You can't do that with games as they need to be instantly reactive to your commands. Hence why game streaming will always require a really, really good ISP with a rock-solid connection, and your home fitted with a high-performing network as well. And pray the lord your network can handle multiple devices and users doing various things all at once, especially if you have a connected family.
I don't think we're at a point where most people out there have access to that kind of high-performing connections, and at an affordable price.
Streaming works well for me from inside my network (Plex server, Steam in-home streaming) but anything coming from outside that requires interaction (games) is horrible. My previouos ISP gave me 300mbsp and GeForce game streaming was suffering fdrom hiccups all the time, and image compression was bad. Now I backtracked to 25-50mbps (can't keep up constantly with price increases), so yeah, fine for unidirectional services like Netflix, but forget it for services like Stadia.
Besides, most of my gaming happens on the go on my Switch. I'm not going to pay a ridiculously high fortune for mobile data to play games on Stadia on the go....
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