EA Will Bring “One of their Bigger Games” To Nintendo Switch

[superchunk]

So EAs quote is very wait-n-see approach.

Keep in mind EA was all-in on WiiU a year before launch. Their CEO was on stage flaunting their "unprecedented partnership" and it was basically going to be every EA game possible.

Then all talk of EA went silent and they delivered a broken, late port on top of sports titles that used outdated assets and broken mechanics finalized with a madden game that threw away everything people want in madden to attempt some cartoon joke of a game. Then nothing. Clearly something changed in that final year where PS4/XBO were announced. The most logical sense is that EA was riding MS cock and MS was pushing a full digital hell-hound with no actual ownership at the time. Putting it all together, it is highly likely Nintendo was at first warm to the same ideas (as were Sony) but Nintendo realized how anti-consumer those plans were as well as losing some ownership themselves by supporting Origin, that they backed out of those deals and EA said FU. This combined with technical gaps in CPU architecture and WiiU's quickly dead sales... well we know what happened.

So now you have an EA who likely still doesn't want to support Nintendo for nonTechnical reasons but the agreements they have with sports entities as well as Disney are going to force them to put ports of all sports games, star wars, etc. EA will hope that sales of NS bomb and then they can use that as a basis to once again drop out and that is what is coming across in this quote. An anticipation that NS won't sell well. They hope this will be the case as they don't want to be forced to support NS and they can continue to snub Nintendo (maybe rightfully so depending on how Nintendo backed out of WiiU agreements).

But with new Mario, Zelda, Pokemon and major revisions/enhancements of Smash and Splatoon... I don't see how this won't sell 10MM in 2017 alone. Especially, once the core gamer yearly iterations are announced such as Madden, FIFA, COD, etc.