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FIFA is a live game. We don't just pay for a kit and roster upgrade. We pay for all the events that are happening for a year.

What are those?

• Live forms (players' ratings change every week in certain game modes depending on their performance in real life)
• Ultimate Team cards: we get Squad Based Challenges all the time, new, boosted Team of the Week cards every week, Team of the Year cards in January, updated new player cards in February, Team of the Season cards from lots of leagues in May and, should a European Championship or World Cup occur (like this winter), we will get a whole new event (with new cards, SBCs etc.) covering it. (The last World Cup event was a completely new game mode, completely free for the game owners - even in the Switch version.)

Oh, and for anyone who already has FIFA 22, the digital price of 23 is only 20 Euros instead of 40. That's a 50% discount.

Sure, for those who aren't very good at this game and won't play it online, this might sound like just a kit and roster upgrade. I personally put in 1000+ hours every year and can confirm that it's not.

What are the owners of the new generation consoles getting in a new FIFA game?
A broken, hot mess where speed is everything and you almost need a pilot license just to defend now. It's borderline unplayable and the built-in cheating system decides the results of the online Ultimate Team matches anyway.

Sure, it looks shiny, sure it has tons of features that the Switch version doesn't (for 70 Euros instead of 20/40).
But if the gameplay isn't there, the game is just not fun to play.

I've been playing the online part since FIFA 13 on PS3.
I would've stopped around 17, if not for the Switch version.
The Switch version, fortunately, has a balanced gameplay. You can actually learn and master it and they won't completely change it by the next iteration.

I rarely say that but in case of FIFA, the unchanged gameplay of the Switch version is a blessing.

I try the other versions every year. I return to the Switch version every year.

It's only a 2 point game for those who don't play it competitively. I agree, for them, any version of it will do fine on the Switch.

You forgot to list two of the greatest deals:

Saints Row IV: 2.79 EUR
Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams: 0.99 EUR

Both are all time low prices.

You're welcome.

King's Bounty II will be GOTY for me on the Switch.
I'm shocked it won't even appear in the US eShop..

I've played 21 on both Xbox One X and the Switch.
The former is prettier with much, much more content.
But the Switch version has much, much better gameplay.

I chose the Switch version on the long term.

I'm 40.
Visual novel is currently my favorite game genre because I've been doing all the others since I was 9.
Those others don't excite me anymore. They've been done to death.
But I still have time for books and good stories.
I really liked DDLC and wished it was a VN about literature, poetry and how to improve ourselves.

I wish developers started to make games for a more mature audience.
The average gamer is above 30.
Jumping, killing and stuff like that grows old after a time.

EA has the Burnout IP rights but Three Fields Entertainment is the group of people who made those games.

Their next Burnout style game, Dangerous Driving 2 will be, in fact, available on Playstation - and on Nintendo Switch, too!
(The first Dangerous Driving is available on PS4, too, also on Xbox, but sadly, not on the Switch.)

@jump : or any week lately...

I guess it's no wonder, there are always 700+ games on sale.

Sale section used to be my favorite here.
Now I use DekuDeals instead and visit this site less often.

I'm thanking for the developers.
I got it for free, tried it and I actually got more excited about it than Mario 3D All-Stars that I got the same day.

It's a platformer with fun physics that's about our journey and goals, too (searching for our missing half).
It has really hit the spot for me.

Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know, EA Play is a subscription service, not a streaming service.

Its cost is pretty low on other platforms where there are plenty of EA games available.

But... I mean... what would they sell subscriptions for on the Switch?
They have, like, half a dozen games here (most of which are the same FIFAs)..

I've heard that GamePass will soon include EA Play, too, on Xbox.
I wish they'd bring GP to the Switch!
Then we'd have all current generation games (minus PS4 exclusives).

There are 3 things to consider here:

• Switch FIFA sales contribute to less than 5% towards total FIFA sales. Why should EA put more effort in it? It's not worth it for them. We are lucky they didn't abandon FIFA altogether after one or two iterations, so people at least have the choice to buy it for the Switch.
• FIFA on the Switch compares to ~FIFA 15 on other consoles. It doesn't look pretty. And it's barebones, compared to current iterations.
  But it has more fun gameplay than on any other console.
  I've been playing FIFA online for 7 years now. I started on PS3, then on the Xbox One, then I abandoned it after FIFA 17. Unfortunately, the online part of Ultimate Team (the most popular game mode) has a built-in handicap system, and it became stronger and stronger every year.
  In the end, I felt like I didn't play anymore but the cheating handicap system decided the results of every second-third game. It was way too much.
  (Before anyone says that I simply sucked at it, I didn't. I won the highest tier Online Cup/Championship every year.)
  In my opinion, the Switch version isn't plagued that much by that system (it's present, I can tell when I score/concede a goal that was assisted by it, but it doesn't happen that often than on the other consoles).
• FIFA is a live game. So it wouldn't probably work as a DLC.
  It changes players attributes weekly (in certain game modes), to represent the performance of the real players.
  In Ultimate Team, there are new tasks/cards every week, too.
  So it's not like we don't get a completely new experience every year. We get all that.
  We just don't get new graphics, gameplay or game modes.

In my opinion, FIFA offers a lot.
Which other game lets you choose from 15.000 characters? It has that many real players!
It has hundreds of real teams!
It has many real competitions, it lets you be players, goalkeepers or even managers throughout whole careers!

I put 1500+ hours in it every year.

So we can badmouth it and support Pokemon instead (which looks like an ugly game from the PS2 era) - or buy FIFA, so maybe, in the future we can get NHL or Madden, too, on the Switch - which would be a dream come true (to me, at least).

Don't play games that require an online connection and eventually, they'll stop making them.
It's that simple.

Only 6.2GB?!
The correct name would be 'Crysis Demastered' then.

"to rival that of PlayStation Now and Google Stadia."

To rival what? A total bust?
Only Sega would want to do something like that...

Even the rumor that they give their name to the new Xbox in Japan, sounded way better (and that was a complete nonsense, too)..

The eShop needs a shovelware filter...
Without that, it's impossible to go through even just the discounted games list.

Burnout Paradise will be fun for 5 dollars later.

I played through the game. It's enjoyable.
That review is bull.

(Just google other reviews. This game was a 6-7 everywhere else..)

Why is anyone surprised?
Old games tend to be free occasionally on other platforms, and apart from half a dozen third party AA/AAA games, the Switch only has old games.

I prefer the movie-like looks of the original Wii version.
I wonder if they could've achieved better results if they'd just used that look and upped the resolution.

I mean, the Wii could do 480p, so a 384p (but even the 580p) can hardly be called an HD remake...

Umm.. Where is Europe?

For me, the weekly store update with the sales is the most important part of this site.
If you don't get a PR email in time, why not just do it by hand?

It's bad enough that sometimes we don't get the mid-week updates here (not every publisher starts a sale or publishes a game on Thursday) - but not getting the 'big' weekly update is just ridiculous for a dedicated site this big.

Thank God for DekuDeals.
Manually browsing through the hundreds of sales on the console's hardly functioning eShop page literally takes an hour. Every time.

I prefer the original "movie-like" graphics to this "cartoon-like" version, which doesn't seem to have much contrast.
That's why I'm skipping this title for now. (And because I already have it on Wii and 3DS.)
Maybe I'll buy it later again for the third time, for a reduced price.

The original looks like a movie. The new one looks like a cartoon.
I honestly like the original look better...

Maybe they're remaking all the Sonic games from the 90s?

Thank you for this interesting and informative interview!

@bngrybt: Thank you for the info!

Wasn't this a free game somewhere else?

"they are never going to release relative new games for the Switch. The best they can do is port over PS3 / XBOX 360 era games"

I hate to break this to you, but other companies do the exact same thing.

The AA/AAA games we have from the current generation (from 2014) are a Doom, a Wolfenstein, a Dragon Ball, a Mortal Kombat, a Witcher and maybe a couple else.

We don't have any CODs, none from this gen's Assassin's Creeds, GTA, Red Dead Redemption II, Mafia, Just Cause, Far Cry, Jurassic Park, Devil May Cry 5, Kingdom Hearts, Dying Light, Tomb Raider, Prey, Hitman, Deus Ex, Resident Evil VII, Batman Arkham Knight, Fallout 4, Dishonored 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, Dark Souls 3, Metal Gear Solid V - just to name a few, or 30 if you count all of these current third party games/series.

It's clear as day that it's not EA's fault.
It's Nintendo's.

NFL and NHL, please!

I have this in 4K on X1X.
I like literally any other Burnout better than this one.

But I'll still probably gonna buy this when it'll be around 10 Euros, like on the other consoles.

When I watched the trailer, I thought this game was ugly in HD. (And I have the original Wii one.)
But that may have been the too much video compression.

These stills look better.
By all means, it'll probably look like a PS2 game in HD.

Which in itself is still better than how Pokemon Sword/Shield looks.

Wow! I have a Switch, I love my Switch - but I couldn't care less about these two games..

I might be tempted for a Euro.

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).

Completely idiotic decision about digital stuff, as always, by Nintendo... :/

I wonder how many sold copies were needed for this.
If I remember correctly, Platinum hits needed 1 million copies sold in the Playstation 2 era.

60 dollars for a game and you get the complete experience. Remember those times?
No day 1 patches, no dlc, no lootboxes - but the full game.

I wish those cancers of video game industry just died already.

Developers can't/won't even port most of this generation's games.
I don't think we'll ever see one true AAA PS5/XSX port.

That will be Switch 2's territory.

Cinders and de Blob 2 in the cart.

Hopefully they'll add some more games next week. It's not really a big sale so far.

I've been waiting for a GRID price drop, too.

This looks like something and old dude, whose last video game was Pong, would think 'humorous' looks like.

Is this one anything like Green Thumb Cards?
I loved that game!
But since the developer went under, it can't even be played on new PCs now (program wants an 16 bit environment and cannot run on 64 bit Windows)..

I would give money to anybody who either makes a similar game (it was very simple, yet a lot of fun) on a modern PC - or, even better, on the Switch.

@NotoriousWhiz Oh, I played that, too. Still have it physically for PC.
For a spinoff, it was a clever game with lots of tactics.
That, and the HoMM series would be perfect for the Switch.

@NullPointerExcep

• There will be no other HD Burnout game ports. There aren't any on other consoles, either. The only existing HD Burnout beside Paradise is Revenge - but that's also only 720p, and a very early HD game (Xbox 360, from 2006, when PS3 hadn't existed yet...). Still, it's my favorite - but EA won't bother with the remasters of the other SD entries because there isn't a gazillion dollars in it for them.
• Everybody should know about Dangerous Driving!
  They're made by the same guys (now independently), so the series are basically the heart and soul of Burnout, finding a new life!
  Please support the developers and buy their game when it comes out on Switch (or right now on any other console, where their games are already available)! They deserve it so much!

These are last-gen games.. They aren't really big.
We just got so used to the countless indies taking up virtually no space that we forgot that AAA games in this generation are usually taking up around 50GB of space - on the other consoles, because we mostly only get last-gen remasters from this generation games...

WOW! The granddaddy of them all, King's Bounty gets a new sequel?! I'm in!

Now we really need the grandkids (Heroes of Might&Magic series) to make an appearance on the Switch, too!

I wish it was.. literally any other entry of the series.
This may be the worst one (minus the first), I may have it in 4K on X1X - but I'm still pretty sure I'm gonna buy it on the Switch.

Meanwhile, the guys who created Burnouts will release their own game on the Switch, too.
They make the Dangerous Driving games now that they're free from EA.
Of course, EA kept the Burnout name.
But there probably never will be another one.
Thanks, EA..

Maybe there is a god!
At least somebody heard me..
Day 1 buy.

Next, somebody please port Cadillacs & Dinosaurs for the Switch, too!

Nothing for me.

I love strategy games but only 1 is on Switch of my all-time favorites (Civ 6).
What else would we need on the Switch?

• Heroes of Might&Magic series (literally any of them - III HD had been published on phones and tablets anyway)
• King's Bounty (a bit similar to HoMM, an obvious second choice)
• Age of Empires (Nintendo DS had a turn-based version, PS2 had the good old II, they're remaking them now anyway)
• Majesty (this has been available for mobiles beside the PC versions, too)
• Settlers series (the classic DS version was fun, too)
• Anno series (it was also available for the DS)
• SimCity series (detto)
• Advance Wars (yep)
• Disciples (DS port was in the works but never had been published)
• Warlords Battlecry series (the best RTS you've never played)
• Tropico series (it's available on other consoles, so why not on the Switch yet?)

The list could go on but it's obvious how lacking Switch's strategy library is compared to PC, mobiles, other consoles or, well, even the Nintendo DS...

I like it when they combine a puzzle game with a story!
I liked the Puzzle Quest games, I liked Hunie Pop and Kotodama, too.

So I bought this game instantly, even though I didn't know anything about it or its publisher.
But I have to say, it's a lot of fun! If you liked the trailer, you'll like the game!

Now I wish somebody made a Sudoku game with a story!

PS: I only have one technical problem so far: when there is more than one screen of text, sometimes it doesn't stop after the first screen but it vanishes and continues with the second screen of text. When this happens, it's almost impossible to read the whole text in the first screen.
I hope they'll release a patch for that.

Other than that, I really like this game!

I wish they'd rather publish the remade Archon game on the Switch!
Both had NES origins, both are remakes, both are fairly old (I'm still talking about the remakes ) - yet, Archon would be 1000 times more interesting on the Switch, in my opinion.

I bought Murder By Numbers and already played it for hours.
It's a bit like Ace Attorney mixed with picross.
I'm having tons of fun with it!
It's a quality game. I don't know how long it is but it has already exceeded my expectations based on its price tag.