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Chrizum on 14 August 2017
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potato_hamster said:
Chrizum said:

I do think you are oversimplifying things here to be honest. EA needs to ask themselves what kind of gamers own a Switch, and what kind of games they buy. FIFA has never been big on Nintendo platforms or handhelds. I'm positive that The Sims, Need for Speed and Star Wars would resonate much better with the Switch's audience than FIFA.

I don't think I'm oversimplifying things at all actually. EA is very aware of what kind of gamers own a Switch and what games they buy. They pay research firms to find out just that information. You're positive that the Sims would sell better than FIFA on the Switch? Based on what exactly?

You're acting like you know more about the Switch and its userbase than EA does. Don't you think that's just a tad ridiculous?

If we're going down that path, why bother discussing these topics at all? After all, what do we puny mortals know about the almighty corporate behemoths and their business decisions?

To stay on the matter at hand: I think it's much cheaper for EA to port last-gen FIFA to Switch than developing a current-gen title with a The Sims or Star Wars license. It's a low risk move and I can dig that. But as a test-case it really doesn't say much about the receptiveness from the audience to EA titles in general.