Right now, a lot of the third-party publishers are investing a lot of money and time in cloud and streaming services. Electronic Arts is one of these companies, having recently launched a closed beta for Project Atlas. In case you forgot, this is a new cloud technology announced last year.
At the time, EA's Chief Technology Officer Ken Moss explained how it was designed to harness cloud computing and artificial intelligence. He further stated how more than one thousand staff were involved in the creation of it. Now that this tech is out in the wild, EA has sent out a survey to early users to gauge which platforms they most want to play via the cloud:
As you can see above, the Nintendo Switch is on the list. While support from EA hasn't been the best during the Switch generation, Nintendo's hybrid platform is still clearly on its mind. Ubisoft is another big-name third-party publisher that believes the future of video games is streaming. It has gone to the extent of a releasing a cloud-version of Assassin's Creed Odyssey on the Switch exclusively in Japan.
Could EA potentially follow with something like this? Would you be interested in playing cloud games on your Switch? Share your thoughts below.
[source gonintendo.com]
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I'd be fine with cloud gaming, I do it on my PC and it's been pretty good.
It's a market survey. Switch isn't on their mind unless somehow everyone answers Switch on this thing! EA.ARE.NOT.SUPPORTING. SWITCH.IN.ANY.MEANINGFUL.WAY.WHATSOEVER.
I just want nhl 20
ZERO interest in streaming games. Terrible idea. Even if I thought it were a good idea, I'd not want it from EA!
The only thing more disgusting than micro-transactions in paid games, are micro-transactions in paid games that are streamed!
The only thing I would even consider giving EA any money for at this point would be a Switch port of the Mass Effect Trilogy. Or maybe the Sims 4, if it came with a LOT of the expansions out of the box on day 1.
Until EA finds what people want through surveys Nintendo Switch 2 will surely have come out by then.
Cloud gaming is worse than download only games. Once they turn off the server you can’t play therefore you are renting but paying full price for a game.
Bugger off EA and stick to your illegal micro transactions
EA just remaster Battlefield Bad Company 2 on Switch (or BF3 or BF4) and you got yourselves a sale. The Switch owners also will have their first good modern-days shooter.
I remember Rainway was suppose to offer cloud based game streaming from PC to be play on Switch. They hint at this for various marketing and even show a PC version of Cuphead being play on Switch and it was suppose to be awesome. It's too bad it ain't awesome anymore since Rainway never came to Switch and now we got Cuphead on Switch anyways so yeah screw cloud gaming and screw you Rainway. You're no longer important to me.
Oh wait this was suppose to be about EA guess they were already not important to me.
Honestly I think it will be the way of the future, but we're just not ready for it yet, I think another 5 years+. I like to own my games, not rent them, my internet/wifi isnt rock solid where I play the switch (on my sofa) and the portability of the switch for me defeats alot of the purpose of this.
I think its nice to have options, but I really wouldnt trust a company like EA to not pull games i'd 'purchased' if they werent performing well in sales - sorry EA but I have 0 trust in you now, look at what happened to Anthems 'roadmap' last week
Do I want cloud gaming on switch?
Sure, do I want EA games on switch?
Hell no.
EAs cloud gaming service was actually one of the better ones I've tried. Worked extremely well and would be cool to have on the switch imo!
@Jevarel I would love to see EA games on Switch. NHL and Mass Effect Trilogy to start. But I don’t want streaming
I think streaming is the future. And I believe Stadia concept is the future. There will inevitably come a time where we will need consoles no more. I like that future. Limitless potential. Look at mobile phones. Before, they were dedicated devices for communication only. Now you can stream on it, listen to music on it, hell, they basically almost make sandwiches for you too ☺
Away with consoles, limitations and exclusivity of titles for specific consoles!
My interest in streaming and my interest in EA meet at a singularity with a value indistinguishable from zero...
I dont like how there is no “streaming games sucks you f*n troglodyte” option.
Selecting “other” just doesn't give me the satisfaction of a unified voice telling them to shove it.
I think streaming is fine for things you don’t really care about. Most of my games are digital with a few physical games. If this is the future I’m not certain I’ll enjoy it that much. Perhaps there will be a resurgence of physical things post the streaming age, vinyl is still a thing.
I like digital purchases as I’m not a fan of clutter.
No I'm okay.
I want to own the games i pay for. Even if video games had to cost £80 each id still prefer it this way.
Movies are different to games - its all well and fine streaming movies as you only need to watch it once or twice then you'll be done with it. If they remove the film then no big deal.
Games are very different. Imagine your half way through a game and next day you wake up to find the games are gone. For any reason, but its gone.
You just got into this game, one week in and you put in a good few hours and its not there. You search for a way to buy it but the service will only let you rent it like a movie - £5 per day to play it. But remember... You wanted this.
Subscription = pay for the right to use, this can very easily be taken away from you because you only have a right to use, not a right to own.
Purchase = right to own. The product is yours no matter what happens. You paid for the right to own it.
There is a WORLD of difference in the legal space.
Is there an option to scold EA for killing good studios and franchises with their atrocious business model? No, I'm not interested in ANYTHING EA has to offer, ever again!
@Cosats Sad but true. I want a couple of their sports games but if they don't want to sell them to me then I don't want them.
It works really well. I was pleasantly surprised. But only played at home... Real question is on the go
But still makes more sense on mobile that always has Internet connection.
100% rather play streamed FIFA they had available on the test than the Switch version (or some garbage like "Golazo!") locally.
If this means Madden and NHL on the Switch, of course. Where do I sign up?
Just go away, EA.
Like I've said many times, I'm not really interested in such things. Switch's 720p is generally beyond the capability of Belarusian 4G and transfers enough data to make the experience cost an arm and a leg in mobile payments where even Vita's 544p RP wasn't all that cheap. And, between Vita RP experience and Switch's own largely unadjustable behaviour to date, sleep mode is barely an option with such games (unless you enjoy tedious reconnecting procedures - again, from Belarusian 4G with love).
And I still wonder why all this marketing, Ubisoft aside, doesn't seem to touch Japan and Korea much. Do folks like EA and Google have so much faith in the impending advent of 5G and its rapid yet evenly stable spread over huge continent piece called "the US"? Oh well, it's not like I wouldn't like to have faith in that myself...
No thanks, I like being able to play my games without an internet connection and whatever year I want.
Notice the Switch is the last option on the list. That says it all about what EA think of the Switch.
...Wut? EA barely supports the Switch with FIFA, why are they asking this? If everyone who took the survey only selected Switch, EA would still find a way to not support the Switch. 🙄
EA are so full of it. Their Switch support has always been weak.The most obvious proof of this is when FIFA on Switch started lacking things the PS4 and Xbox One versions had.
Streaming games is an awful idea. Supporting EA on Switch somehow seems like a worse idea
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