Random: Switch Fans React To EA's Partnership With Google Stadia

Who cares about EA?

EA is the first company I hope that goes bankrupt during this pandemic...

Why on earth would anyone support that dumpster fire...

@ChompyMage I honestly don't. I would have bought Jedi Fallen Orden if it had come to Switch on release, because it's great, but it didn't. There's nothing else that interest me from them, so... Yeah, I don't care who they support.
I want games from the rest of the companies, like Rockstar. How about GTAV on Switch? Or RDR?

Oh boy, golly gee. Can't wait to relive memories of my favorite sporting events of the current year, 2020, thanks to the Electronic Angels at EA, and with the amazing never before done streaming technology of Google Stadia, I can play at 4K with negative latency, whenever and where ever I want.

/s

I would just love even more portable (more modern) Star Wars games. Of course, I can’t count on EA for that as they’re pretty much a trash company. One can dream.

Just get a PS4 or Xbox 1 if you need to play EA games so bad

I just don't understand any of these third-party publishers at all. The Switch is prevalent and successful, yet third party publishers don't care. That's a shame.

If EA made games worth a damn than I'd care more but I don't like the company or their games. Granted I get everyone's beef. If they are giving Stadia titles but not Nintendo after all these years than I don't get it either.

Didn't EA previously say they had an "unprecedented" partnership with Nintendo when it came to the Wii U? We saw how that went. They appear to be a fickle bunch, that's for sure.

Once again EA snubs us and then wonder why so many of us are not happy with them. They're a terrible company. Vile, selfish, shortsighted and arrogant.

But I am sure Google is thrilled, one anti-competition, anti-consumer, monopoly loving company partnering up with another!

Don't get me wrong, I do use Google, but only because there really is no other mainstream rival to them, and that's a problem. It's why I support the people who argue that these monstrous tech companies should be broken up.

At this point, all I really want personally from EA is the Mass Effect Trilogy on Switch. But for others, for sports fans, I want EA to have competition, I want other companies to be allowed to make sports games with real teams and player rosters.

I would still be angry about Star Wars too, but all new SW games are part of Disney's new canon and I just don't care about that terrible new story they've made.

This is great news for both Stadia owners.

EA is still Butt Hurt from what happend with the WiiU where thay wanted total controll over the WiiU E-Shop and Nintendo esentualy told them to sod off.

I don't think it is legit..EA didn't mention anything about an 'Unprecedented Partnership'.

@graysoncharles it makes sense in a "why not" kind of way. But, Stadia is quite dead unless Google has plans to pump an insane amount of money to keep it around. People were saying this for months that NA and Europe are just not ready yet for game streaming. Slightly surprised it did not do well in East Asia... but I think we know that unless it's a service made by Sony or Nintendo they just don't care for it.

But, EA's decision to even back Stadia is just odd. Especially since the Switch brings in a ton of cash for 3rd Parties who know fans will double dip for that sweet-sweet portability. Guess, EA will just EA.

Sounds like another one or those unprecedented partnerships...

Stadia has a bright future. Google owns a bunch of satilites and is becoming an isp. Amazon will be the next to attack. And Amazon will be scary. Netflix needs to jump in now.

"EA has announced it's teaming up with Google"

Google StadEA...

I’d support EA games that I like if they released them on the switch. But my guess is that Google is probably paying all dev costs for these ports in addition to some major money to get them to do it. This isn’t costing EA a dime, and there’s no way Nintendo would do that kind of offer.

@Muddy_4_Ever "This is great news for both Stadia owners."

Oh yeah, great news for the two of them. /s

Do we really need an article about a handful of people tweeting the same joke? Some of these don't even have a Like on their Tweet yet and they're embedded to the article as though they're the sentiment of the masses.

EA is a very opportunity-cost oriented company. We've heard time and time again how devs have considered it a miracle to have games that released 3-5 years ago being ported to Switch. It's not that they won't get success on Switch, it's that they feel the effort can be placed more work in existing versions. Chances are Stadia is much effortless to port than it is to have as huge returns.

Even on the point of EA's support with Nintendo. They seemed to have turned a bit around on Nintendo, to the point where they certainly have more releases on Switch that is coming soon than Ubisoft does, including Crysis, Burnout and a mystery project from Velan Studios.

They won't need to worry about making major adjustments to the graphics when developing for Stadia, if anything they can push the higher settings they offer on PC. That saves a lot of money, and that's all EA cares about isn't it?

Yeah I agre with all these Twitter users. Make no flippin’ sense.

I truly could care less about where EA dumps it’s trash.... they are such a pale comparison to the company they were in the late 80s and 90s - back when their logo was still “ECA”.

Two sh*t brands join together, makes sense to me.

I would buy an EA game on switch...and only switch because everything should be on it

I hate Google, I hate the stadia and I LOATHE EA; got a really bad feeling about this development...

@TheLightSpirit they could work for a better company; EA can go up in flames for all I care.

@Kyloctopus "Do we really need an article about a handful of people tweeting the same joke? Some of these don't even have a Like on their Tweet yet and they're embedded to the article as though they're the sentiment of the masses."

Agreed, the bar is very low on this site.

Just port mass effect trilogy to switch.

This sure is, unprecedented.

I can see The Sims 5 will never happened

Or

The Sims 5 will be streaming only.

If EA choose the fate like this, fine....
Go ahead and going bankrupt together with Stadia.

At least i still have fun with old EA games on Wii (MySims series) at the mediocre quality.
The best was The Sims Bustin' Out.
The Sims 4 probably will be the last Maxis game i can play.

ExtremelyAss games

Stadia isn't going to become relevant until the next consoles get released. All their games are available elsewhere for cheaper on consoles people already own right now.
Fast forward a year from now when games release on PS5 and stadia on the same day, I'll potentially lean towards Stadia. Don't need a new console to play the new game.

I don't even know what stadia is. Never heard of it until just now.

EA's just digging its own grave at this point. Good riddance.

@RPGamer ignore Mesome713; he’s just an attention seeking troll. Nothing he says does or thinks holds any value whatsoever.

Dear God, do they WANT to go bankrupt?

I have Stadia Pro right now (free months) and it does work nicely. However Stadia has two major problems why it will never be better than a normal PC, XBOX, PS or Switch:

1. There is only a handful of games available.
2. You need to buy each game you already own separately for Stadia besides paying a monthly subscription.

A better cloud gaming solution is shadow.tech. Which allows you to install any PC game / application on a virtual Windows 10 gaming PC.

@sanderev the way you described it; makes me want the system even less!

(Is that even possible?)

Avoiding that garbage like the plague...

The last time I played a new EA game I said "why do I do this to myself?"

Oh well, it was to be expected, a rare decision of EA, but this company has some ideas that I do not even know better, however, what @graysoncharles mentions is true, as Nintendo does not have a large online infrastructure such as have other consoles and more Google Stadia, and as it has been seen since the Wii U, EA will not support Nintendo much, until that infrastructure improves as it "should be" and allows EA to do whatever it is with its games.

As I said, from EA, only 4 IP's are my favorites, but:
Need For Speed (the last game "could" be interesting, maybe)
Burnout (well, there will be a Burnout for the Switch, but it is the last version of a game from more than 10 years ago!!!!)
Sim City (after the disaster of 2013, well..., there is still some life in the android version, I guess)
The Sims / MySims (My Sims R.I.P .... * sigh *, The Sims, well, I think it's still a "decent" game ...)

It will still be a dream if one of these games came as it should be and more on a Nintendo platform.

EA and Stadia - Two star crossed lovers. The ultimate business model where you buy the games but don't get to play because either internet does not work or Stadia servers are down or it is intended to be a surprise mechanics.

Because EA actively want Nintendo to fail, like they did Sega. Have done for many years.

It doesn't take a genius to see that EA see themselves as a make or break on a system. Nintendo have proved them wrong.

I hope EA and Google go out of business. I for one will never buy their games nor use their search engine.

The fact that Battlefront II and Jedi: Fallen Order haven’t been ported to Switch yet is a travesty.

Really this just all proves that Stadia is the new 3DO. Touts itself as the future of gaming, stupid commercials, not that popular, and EA loves the thing.

"There are theories it could be tied to a financial deal."

Ya think?

They decided to bring their games to this generation’s biggest gimmick while showing no love to the Switch, I would say I’m surprised but this is EA they hate Nintendo. I don’t wish most of EA’s employees ill will but the company and their horrible leaders are a blight that needs to go away.

I mean, it’s seems fairly obvious that the fact a ton of people working on Stadia and within Google’s games development teams are ex-EA employees might have had something to do with it.

It’s like people have forgotten that ‘networking’ is a big part of maintaining/generating business partnerships. Which is exactly what this is.

@San_D *Stadia shuts down in a few years

"Surprise!"

I cannot recall the last EA game I bought. Maybe NHL 18?

I forgot about EA, They are still around?

Meh.
People saying this has anything to do with misguided financial priorities might not know what EA is trying to do.

Partnering up with Google has two very likely benefits

1: EA is likely being paid very handsomely to attempt saving the stillborn child that is Stadia

2: EA is most likely interested in associating with all of Google's money/tech/influence to stay dominant in the future, whether or not that future is ruled by streaming services.

The fact is whether people like it or not EA are a successful company, the have fifa, and loads of sports titles, they will be there for many years to come. me I just care about the end product and don’t really care about the company’s. Games with micro transactions and all that loot nonsense don’t interest me. Played Jedi fallen order last year was average. Don’t like stadia at all. X x x x.

Not sure why any one would want Madden for Switch any ways. It's the same trash every year with little to no changes in idea or gameplay.

Does anyone know what proportion of the 50m switch owners own a second console? They're probably buying EA games there already and presumably it's not that easy to port the new games to the switch. Look at the poor version of FIFA we get. Presumably it's minimum effort to have Stadia versions so no outlay for them. I'm not defending EA, I just think that it's a separate consideration to Switch support. We have a poor FIFA and an upcoming conversion of a PS3 game. (Is Unravel 2 also EA?). We're not getting Fallen Order either way regardless of Stadia. I'm really not fussed about them either way. Got enough to play as it is given what the Switch does have.

Should do an EA classics line up of games for switch. Battlefield, dead space medal of honour etc

It’s money at the end of the day, rest assured there will be a very lucrative contract for EA here. Google are desperate for games so they’ll be paying EA a fortune I imagine.

Wont be surprised if/when EA drops Stadia support when their games sell virtually nothing on the platform.

Let’s face it - Stadia having these games wont make a bit of difference to how it sells. Switch will keep selling without some of these titles. Stadia is a lame duck and they are struggling to shift it even for free!! EA will be getting a mega payment for this so that’s why they are doing it but who is going to go out and buy a Stadia just to play these games? Donald Trump might be the only one as he is a bit thick.

I will take consolation in that EA will lose a lot of money in this idiotic deal.

I'm guessing because Stadia streams, vs Switch that runs so i'ts probably infinitely easier to put them on Stadia

EA will problem ruin it somehow, they seem to ruin everything they touch

@blockfight I think Stadia will be less relevant when the new consoles release, its struggling to match the performance of the Xbox One X let alone get anywhere near those 2. Not to mention you have to pay a subscription wiping out any potential savings initially and the fact that for so many gamers it just doesn't work, I can't even get it to run on Chrome reliably for more than a couple of minutes. On mobile it was much better but there was still noticable stuttering and lag. Add to that the 100 million gamers or so who already have gaming libraries on PS4 and Xbox which I doubt they'll simply abandon

People just react with emotion too much.

Most of EA's games are running on engines that either aren't running on switch already or are AAA games where outsourcing a downgraded port isn't always worth the effort. Even Fifa wasn't worth the effort to them with how poorly it sold.

Second to that, Google would be very likely offering them money.

These people just forget EA didn't mind putting a bunch of games on wifi and ds. Ea doesn't hate Nintendo, they just aren't going to downgrade outsourced ports that won't sell well. A lot of companies are the same.

A more powerful switch 2 will lead to more ea games though, as it will be more easy to port games to it

@NoNoseNosferatu I feel I contribute with my opinion whether that’s positive mostly, or things which I don’t feel excited about. Which is like siding with a company or hating them, and business decisions and all that stuff. I like games!. X x x maybe I put too many xs but that’s cool x x

Clearly google have turned up to EA’s offices with a boatload of cash....

I mean, yeah, I'm not a fan of EA either, but this does make sense.

1. Google probably paid them, or gave them a good deal (% revenue).
2. Their games are already optimised for PC, so there's no work to be done, free money essentially.

Even if this flops, they wouldn't lose anything.

@RPGamer This is just the beginning. Many with high speed Internet enjoy Stadia just fine. Just because it had a bad launch means nothing, Google Stadia is here to stay. It will only get better and better, cheaper and cheaper.

Google stadia is the Google Chromecast of the future. You only stopped v1, wait for v2. Stadia's only competition is Steam. People don't see the big picture, you buy a game once and you own it forever. It's not like Sony and Microsoft were you have to keep buying the same game over and over.

Stadia is streaming a PC. Porting to it must be very easy.

I dont really see the issue.

Why are people surprised about this? There's clearly something gone wrong behind the scenes between EA and Nintendo, otherwise EA wouldn't be cutting Switch out like this.

They were shady as hell with the Dreamcast too.

I'm glad EA are not supporting Switch. It ends the argument of a console needing EA support to be successful. The less EA stink on Switch, the better

@SuperNintendoMii EA will continue to bring it's most popular game to Switch every year.

@the_beaver People could say the Switch is under powered but when you look at the Wii era, and how it got some of big PS3/360 games ported it despite the efforts not that great all the time

Never mind just Switch fans.. EA and Stadia are two brands that most gamers have a negative opinion of. Switch, Xbox Series X, PS5 and Steam all have so many great games coming soon to even bother about EA and Stadia!

@Steel76 Probably you haven't heard about a game called The Witcher 3.

Except Stadia can run on Switch, hell I may hack my Wii U to use Stadia in the future. EA know more people have a mobile device than a Switch period. Saying this makes no sense, is naive.
Don't get me wrong I would love for certain EA games to be ported to Switch but that will not happen anytime soon.
A stadia app for every console? Much more likely, but you don't/won't even need that looking at the technology.

Eternally Atrocious. It's in our game.

For real though it's completely their own fault for how bad their games have been performing on Switch with their absolute lack of care for the system. I would have certainly bought one of their footies for the system at some point if they didn't do such a poor job on them and leaving so many features out compared to other systems.

Either way at this point in time I'm really not surprised Stadia is gonna get more support than the Switch. And quite frankly, it's EA, so I really couldn't care less. There's plenty of much higher quality companies who pump out much higher quality games for the system than EA ever will.

So, really, we're not missing anything of importance here, if you ask me.

Putting games on Stadia is money for low effort as they already have made them. Bringing games to Switch involves learning what the demographic want and optimising their games to be the best they can be on Switch. Unravel and Burnout are coming. I'll grab them if they are handled right. But this story shouldn't be surprising to anyone.

It makes sense to bring those games to Stadia.

• Stadias hardware specs. are similiar to Xbox One X and PS4 Pro which makes it easy to port
• Fifa/Madden fans etc. can then play those game with nice graphics comparable to a XBONEX with only a browser , decent internet and a controller from a cheap computer, tablet or through a Chromecast Ultra.
• That makes for a quite big and new target group for EA.

It's clear Google have signed a deal.

Nintendo fell out with EA regarding their online network on Wii U. As EA built the Wii U online infrastructure they wanted to bring Origin store onto it aswell - the reason why online was so good and full featured on Wii U was due to it being built by EA. When Nintendo started from scratch with some useless Japanese company it has resulted in Switch being a half baked messed online.

Unlike Switch no work or investment is required to port other than flicking down a few settings for almost Xbox One X quality versions of titles.

Who cares?

The thing only EA has that I care about is Star Wars. The sooner EA lose the licence, the better, I believe it’s less than a year to go. Fingers crossed 🤞

@RPGamer Don't listen to @mesome713 completely uninformed on this topic.

1. You don't have to keep rebuying purchases on Xbox unlike Nintendo. Xbox purchases are tied to your user account.

An example is if you own all previous 360 games that are back compatible which goes into the hundreds you can download via your live account if bought digital last generation or put in your disc and download for free. And this is continuing with Series X.

Digital Foundry have proven the input lag on Stadia via their super fast connections. The thing is there will always be an inherent lag with streaming from the clouds and also - once Google get bored and shut Stadia down you can say bye to those games forever.

@liveswired only a small percent of Xbox 360 games work on Xbox one. Streaming is the future of gsming. People don't want to have to download all these games all the time. There is a reason Microsoft fears Google more than Sony.

Spend 2 days downloading a game to the slow Xbox X. Or just play with the click of a buttton. The future is bright for Google Stadia. Xbox and Sony are dinosaurs walking.

If football still isn't happening by the time the 2021 edition of FIFA is released in the autumn, do you think it will affect sales of the game? On the one hand, people will be desperate to get their football fix, and FIFA gives them that even in the absence of the real thing. On the other hand, if not much transfer activity happens over the summer and there are no real-world equivalent leagues happening at the same time, why bother buying a new game?

It's EA, we're better off without them. Fall Order is neat, but I got kinda bored with it. Early. Not a big loss

E
A
Sucks

It really does.

(Read to the rhythm of ‘its in the game’)

Anyone that supports Stradia and all the other names it’s gone under since OnLive hate gaming and nihilistically want it to die.

I do not blame EA. Google has a LOT of money to offer and it is a business first and foremost.

Plus it is not like EA was very pro Switch up to this point anyways. Hell, is anybody actually surprised by this?

Seems bizarre that Nintendo fans take offence. To port their big games in Frostbite would cost lots and EA clearly don’t want to do that whereas no doubt a google offered them a ton of money to run the game pretty much ‘as is’ with probably minimal cost.

There wasn’t an equal choice here. I think EA should support the Switch more but they aren’t related

I mean Stadia appears to be a complete failure of a platform, while Nintendo Switch is tremendously successful. EA just mystifies me.

Stadia is essentially dead on arrival. Goggle has been backtracking and making end runs to compensate for the lack of interest since it launched. EA, is once again, riding a dead horse.

The only game they have published and I care for is the Jedi Fallen Order.
But I know they would not release it to the Switch so I bought it to the PS4

The last EA game I bought was Burnout Paradise... 10 years ago.

Putting games on Switch can be a significant undertaking. It’s weaker hardware and sometimes the returns aren’t great. However, EA has focused on the wrong games for the platform. Instead of focusing on sports, they should find a port studio to get fallen order on the platform.

@Audiobrainiac Their license for it expires in a year or two, so let's hope Disney doesn't renew it with them, and then maybe other companies will better support the switch

EA and Google together? One *****,shady company supporting another?They go hand in hand. They're welcome to each other. Neither of them get my money anyway

Doesn't really surprise me as far as Jedi Fallen Order is concerned. It's meant to suffer from performance issues on the Xbox One S. This would be a bigger challenge than porting Witcher 3, which runs well on base 4th Gen consoles but pushes the Switch to the limit.

LOL EA and Google stadia, they deserve one another 🤣
Seriously though, aside from Dead Space and Mass effect trilogies (which would make awesome switch ports btw), they don’t have anything I care about. Just crumble and die EA

This will be all about the money, Google has written EA a cheque.... Which for Google to pay must mean they they still believe that the service has a future, the service seemed basically dead on arrival.... Improvements admittedly have been made but not nearly quick enough....

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the Stadia versions just the games running on a PC (or server) and then streamed? I know people are pissed that EA's going for the way smaller market here, but it's not like they went out of their way and spent all these resource to make a port just for Stadia and the 12 people using it.

Uh what's this got to do with no tendo?

@ChompyMage exactly. Let it burn down on Stadia.

Everything Google themselves has created has turned out to be horsesh*t. Any surprise that Stadia joins the long list?

@carlos82 You don't need to pay a subscription. This is the most common misconception about it which you can only blame Google for in their messaging. You never need to pay them a single penny for a subscription. Just buy the games you want. One off payment. Done!
I'm on my lunch break at work and just played a game of NBA 2K20 in my league. Will pick up where I left off on my TV when I get home. Works perfect.
The big issue with it at the moment is games. There's nothing on it that I can't buy on Xbox or Switch. But I'm not planning on upgrading to next gen, at least not straight away. Stadia will be perfect for me. I understand it's not for everyone. It's a good platform but with plenty of kinks to work out.

@blockfight I know but if you're wanting to play in 4K you do have to pay a subscription which is the only way this can compete with the new consoles. Without it it's just 1080p and in that case offers little benefit over current gen systems and in many respects is far worse. No doubt under the correct circumstances this performs reasonably well but it's a long way from being as good as a console or PC, I mean I can't even get it to work reliably on my laptop, judging by my efforts to try to fix that many others have had similar issues

As for playing at work I can do exactly that with Xcloud and stream my own console and any game on it

Does anyone really think that any of EA’s games would sell well on Switch? People buy Switches to play Nintendo games not FIFA. It wouldn’t be worth it for EA to spend tons optimizing and porting for meager sales. Many of their games are heavily focused on online as well which is atrocious on the Switch with things like voice chat missing.

@carlos82 Some people don't care about 4K. You're on a Nintendo website, there's no game they offer that comes in 4K. It's the games that matter most, not resolution. The success of The Witcher on Switch proves that. It's not the best version of that game. Not by a longshot. But it's sold well because the game is fantastic and it runs "good enough".
There will be plenty of people though that the Stadia service is good enough. Easy access to new games without needing a highend PC or a €400+ console. If someone wants that bump to 4K, they have the option to pay a little more.

The latter half of the article put it best. Porting games to Stadia is super quick and easy, plus there’s no production cost for physical media or problems if a bunch of discs or cartridges get left unsold. This makes absolute sense for EA, especially considering Google is probably handing them a fat check for this.

And frankly, how many people here would actually buy games made by EA if they ported them to Switch? The general sentiment among everyone here is that they are the devil and nobody should support them, anyway. Honestly, I haven’t been interested in a single game they’ve made since Beetle Adventure Racing on the N64. When they remaster that game or release a sequel, then I’ll start complaining if we don’t see it on Switch. Until then, I really couldn’t care less.

To anyone here who accuses Nintendo fans of having an entitlement complex, I feel I should remind you of the time Sony and Microsoft loyalists went ape**** over Bayonetta 2 being a Wii U exclusive. It's also worth noting that Nintendo platforms receive significantly less major third-party support than its competitors so cut us some ****ing slack!!

@thesilverbrick I have bought FIFA games on Switch. Would buy more games if they released them too, Madden, Star Wars etc.

@DrDaisy The whining over Bayonetta 2 becoming a Nintendo exclusive makes even less sense when you consider that Nintendo itself paid for the production and publishing of that entire game. It literally would not exist without Nintendo bankrolling it.

@blockfight that's the point if you don't want 4K you can easily buy an Xbox One for very little money and play such games, in a few months the PS4 will be dirt cheap and to play Stadia on the TV you still need to buy a Chromecast and a controller. Xcloud will soon be up and running with a similar concept but a far larger library of games and available for a cheap subscription. If Stadia was a subscription service for its games I'd understand what its purpose was but at the moment all it does is play games worse than any other alternative due to the lag and unreliability has a minuscule library.

I'd imagine that the amount of people who want to play modern games but haven't bought any hardware to do so is very small. I mean it's only got to a million subscribers and that's with most on lockdown and a 2 month free trial, PS4 for example sold well over 5 million units in that period of time

Well, here's hoping 2k will bring a professional American football game to the Switch. The only sport not represented on the Switch is the NFL.

@graysoncharles @Steel76 The topic here is EA doesn't give a damn about Nintendo user base - whether it's about porting their engine or porting older games. They would rather go to a platform where they don't have to do anything, even if its market penetration is less than negligible. And fans have every right to be baffled at those decisions. No one is asking EA to make a loss to bring over games to the Switch, but when others are trying to get into the market and actually profiting out of it, EA's decision does seem weird. As for your condescension about "why do Nintendo fans whine if they hate EA so much", it's about variety in the catalog in my opinion. If EA has done good games, there is no reason not to appreciate those and wanting to play those on someone's platform of choice. As for me, I don't care for Star Wars, or this game in particular, so I'm good even if EA doesn't care.

@thesilverbrick i totally agree with you. As a Nintendo fan I want nothing more than to see EA go bust.

I'd never buy any game they put on here,no matter how much effort they put on it.

You are 100% on the money, this does not concern me at all.

Actually it's for the best because anyone who any urge to think about buying Burnout will back out now, if they didn't when they saw the ridiculous price.

But yeah you are right about that, as a Nintendo fan, I want nothing more than to see EA burn. No game they ever release will make me change my mind.

@San_D your sentiment is right about every company other than EA.

they are and always have been a cancer.

I personally don't care about any of their games, I want to see them go bust and I will never support them no matter what they do.

This news makes me happy because it's gotten even more people on my side when it comes to boycotting EA.

Which I've been doing since Mass Effect 3.

Come on EA give us Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order for the Nintendo Switch!

@carlos82 fair enough. I personally hope Stadia succeeds. More ways to play is surely a good thing.

@TheLightSpirit it's not disgusting.

What EA have been doing to the gaming industry is disgusting.

What about the waves of unemployed when EA buy a studio then let it rot away?

When a patient goes for surgery to get cancer removed, the initial surgery is tough, they will be weak but they will recover and the cancer will be gone.

EA is a cancer, the operation to remove them is the painful loss of jobs, but when they are gone, the industry will be healthier for it.

ea should just disappear for good.

Who cares? EA sucks.

It's not business, it's personal.

EA hates Nintendo.

It's too bad.
A darn shame.

... And totally personal.

Frostbite engine is the key to this. Switch either can't run it or EA aren't trying to run it which takes out most of the current gen EA library. In the case of FIFA, no Frostbite engine means legacy versions.

As for other games, only ones that aren't on Frostbite engine that aren't on or announced for Switch yet seem to be a few more EA published indie games (e.g. Unravel, A Way Out, Sea of Solitude), Respawn titles (Titanfall 1, Titanfall 2, Apex Legends, Jedi Fallen Order) and Sims 4.

@RPGamer haha, yeah, I like their songs

If judging by "giving games to other platforms and not the Switch" you would need to hate every 3rd party publisher 🙄

Wonder if it has Cross Save with PC like on X-Cloud

I opened a Shadow tech and Geforce NOW subscription. Streaming games to a handheld at 720p actually works really well.

Well if it wasn't 65$cad i would have bought burnout buuut.

Yeah, ea can suck it up. Don't care for them anymore. I haven't even played Jedi fallen order yet on ps4.

@ReaperExTenebris

They not supporting Stadia - they supporting Streaming Services. And so are just about every publisher with games not on Switch. From F1 2019 to Metro Exodus and Borderlands 3

EA already announced the Microsoft Xcloud support

https://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news/70874/microsoft-adds-ea-titles-including-the-sims-4-to-project-xcloud/

Everyone in the Xcloud Beta already have Madden 20 with Cross Save on PC - so Stadia is not the first.

I do agree, Stadia is going nowhere but the dustbin of gaming history. I rather just use Shadow Tech or GeForce NOW. No need to buy games again at crazy prices

@sanderev Yep... playing XCOM: Chimera Squad as a handheld game with Shadow Tech right now.

Had the service for 2 months now - It has some glitches here and there. But a lot more value than Stadia for sure!

But the reality is - nothing beats a dedicated handheld like the Switch. But I can still play my games not on Switch at Home and on the GO pretty well.

I vent a lot less about my Switch now that it has some help keeping me entertained 😅😀

If EA didn't hold Star Wars (and Titanfall) hostage then I could blissfully forget about the company entirely.

Madden would sell a ton on Switch...one person said the Witcher didn't sell well on Switch. Apparently nearly 3 million copies in 6 months is not selling well?

@Pod exactly. But ya know, fanboys gonna fanboy.
Also, as others rightly pointed out, it's probably way easier to put games that are already on PC on Stadia rather than downgrade them for the Switch, perhaps even needing to outsource them.

And I say this as someone who despises EA and has never had any interest in Stadia.

@graysoncharles @rockodoodle it was at ~700k up to a few months ago, I seriously doubt they sold another 2.3 million copies in 2/3 months.
There was an article here on NL about that, by the way.

@graysoncharles yes I know you were questioning him, I just thought I'd tag you in case you hadn't seen those numbers before 😃

By the way I agree, I think it's a million at most by now.
Which is still great, mind you!

I mean, I understand ea doing things to make a quick buck... but even for them, this makes no sense...

@graysoncharles I misread it. I thought it said that 11 percent of total sales was for sure Switch. It was 11 percent of sales since 2019...

I can understand not porting more demanding games like Jedi Fallen Order, but not putting full effort into FIFA and not porting over Madden at all is just a dumb move on EA's part. Porting over older games like Mass Effect trilogy and Dead Space games would be easy money too.

As for this deal specifically, yeah.... Google's probably in a panic to get more subs for Stadia, they're even giving it away for free. Not to mention EA likes the paycheck.

I’m sorta ok with this. If nothing more than the hope that if they port nhl then a pc version is inbound.

@clvr
Oh for sure it's easier.

So that's the economic risk of the sheer hassle taken care of.
PLUS, they don't risk 'hurting' their brand name in the eyes of the cool kids by associating with Nintendo.

Asssociating with Stadia might not be exactly cool either, but let's be real. Barely anybody knows about the existence of Stadia. Even if the games will have lag, any individual screen shots will look up to par, and there aren't enough Stadia players in the first place for any buzz to catch on about inferior game play experiences.

@retro_player_77 because I like football and want to play it on my switch

EA are all about money. There's no way Google didn't throw money at EA for these games. Nintendo are not interested in throwing money at Electronic Arts.

I can guarantee Nintendo do not care one bit.

I'd imagine this is also because these games can easily be ported to Stadia. Sadly, with Nintendo consoles being a little underpowered compared to Xbox and PS4, some retooling always needs to be done to get them up and running on Switch and that could be a lot of work potentially. EA aren't interested in doing that regardless of the number of Switches sold.

Also, I bet EA are still bitter that Nintendo didn't use their network services for Wii U.

To those who still don't understand why EA supports one platform and not the other:
Money.

Nintendo doesn't pay companies to publish games on their platform. (As you can see from the lack of third party AA/AAA support.)
Microsoft and Sony do.
And now Google, too, probably.

Besides, it's only a streaming service.
It's not like they have to make a game from scratch (as they would have to, for the Switch).

It must really be a slow news day for this to have appeared.

Google and EA are made for one another as they both have the same business model. Both are companies that used to innovate and push their industry forward, but now just use their money to buy up competition while producing very little of value. Both purchase whatever is considered a fad or use their industry position to lock out competition. Both really haven't produced anything of lasting value in quite a few years, just copying whatever is popular.

So is it really surprising that EA signed up for something that required almost zero work but brings them a little extra profit?

What I dislike about EA Switch ports is that they’re half-baked and purposefully missing features found in the “better” ports.
I have no idea why EA would even think about supporting Google Stadia anyway. It’s such a dumb decision.

Loving all this "EA are all about money" sentiment. What are other companies about then, crippling debt? They're all in it for one thing: money.

Vacuous games that sell to the non-gamer masses by the millions and gamers keep a wide berth around from a company non-gamers see as a big gaming company and gamers loath and ignore, putting their empty, Farmville Crush with better graphics games designed as a slot machine onto a platform no gamer subscribes to.....sounds like a dream match!

@mesome713 Satellite internet is the very last thing you'd want coupled to a gaming service. I'd rather try it on dialup. At least the latency is better. And Google's forays into being an ISP fell miserably on its face, effectively abandoned part-way through. They couldn't compete with Comcast's ownership of half the municipalities' pockets in the US. Believe it or not.

@MrWarner14 I could live with a gimped version of Madden or NHL.

Even if it did cost them more resources, I really think, especially with Madden that it would sell very well, if for no other reason the market is unsaturated. I have an Xbox One and only buy a version every three years.

@ReaperExTenebris And you can think that. I use it out of necessity.

But again, Publishers have put Borderlands 3, Metro Exodus, RedDead2, F1 2019, Dirt 2.0, DMC5, AceCombat 7, Darksiders 3 (and tons more) on Fringe Services like Stadia, Geforce NOW or Xcloud and not on Switch.

CodeMaster announced the new F1 2020 for everything including Stadia but not Switch.

https://www.gamesradar.com/f1-2020-will-drop-for-ps4-xbox-one-pc-and-stadia-this-july-with-a-new-team-management-mode/

This same bashing at EA can be done for just about every other publisher on Nintendo Switch. Putting a game on Stadia and not Switch is nothing new.

The real reason why we all hate stadia has nothing to do with the service. It has more to do with their claim that it would be "the end of consoles". All console owners are unified against stadia because of that claim. "You want to end what we love, well then get ready for our hate".
Very bad marketing in order to atract console owners....

Geforce now, wich is almost the same thing, is much more loved, simply because they did not "attack" consoles.

@ReaperExTenebris Well, it is the same reason I bought a Switch. I do not have time to always play at home. If the games I want to play are not on Switch - I have a need to find another way to play them on the GO. Not the Switch fault - publishers decide I guess.

True. But I stop judging 3rd party based on what they do on Nintendo Platforms ages ago. CodeMaster has done 1 port of a 6 year old game on Switch. I am sure they also have their reasons for putting F1 2020/Dirt 2.0 on Stadia instead. I can tell you right now that streaming racing games is awful... so quality of the experience is not one of them.

The best Streaming service for gamers is GeForce NOW. But most publishers are trying to kill it off and support Stadia (by far the worst).

Publishers are weird in general.

Nintendo thinks people are made out of money.
Google is actually made out of money.

Stadia is just PC games though, right? It's not even a "port" at all, as such. Same thing as Geforce Now but with a worse business model.