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Nuvendil on 31 August 2017
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Soundwave said:

I don't really consider FIFA "hobbled". Switch is going to have to have some compromises, it's far less capable hardware than a XB1/PS4 for obvious reasons ... it has to be able to run at 5 watts whereas a PS4 runs at 60 watts electricity.

The "don't buy it, hobbled" police are full of crap here IMO. This is a legit good version that EA has put real effort into and there's nothing close to as good of a portable soccer experience available anywhere else.

Buy it for fucks sake. You can't exactly put your PS4 in your back pack and play it on an airplane.

This is a very good effort from EA from the sounds of it and I hope they are rewarded with decent sales. I'd dearly love to have an NHL 2017 port of similar quality (60 fps) that I could play on long flights, that would be amazing. There are a lot of other IP from EA aside from the obvious ones I'd love on Switch as well ... like Sim City would be great on the system. 

It's missing. freaking. features.  

If they gave enough of a shit they could have had the GAMEPLAY features here in full.  If that were the case, the engine switch wouldn't matter.  But since they want to imply that somehow the two are connected, since they use the switch as a limp, pathetic excuse for why they can't be assed to put in the same effort on Switch as the other current platforms, I'm not going to defend them.  Because not only is the exclusion of features lazy and cheap, the attempt to pass it off as tied to the freaking engine is just contemptuous.  This attitude is not something I am going to defend and not something any consumer should defend. 

NBA 2k18 is a very good effort.  This is the usually EA "I guess we gotta put SOMETHING on the system, *sigh*" effort that they've put in time and time and time again.  That last noteworthy effort I can think of by EA on a Nintendo platform was Nead for Speed: Most Wanted in 2013.

No, it isn't garbage.  But since when did "not garbage" become the gold standard?