FIFA 18 on Switch accounted for 1% of all UK physical copies sold

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GribbleGrunger said:

Nuvendil said:

Wait. You are telling me that when it is public knowledge that a version is feature stripped it will get blown out in sales by other versions?  

Also doesn't help when you try to say only features tied to the engine switch are missing but then others are missing and your answer to that criticism is a flippant "we don't want to overwhelm Switch customers" with the complexities of your freaking soccer game.

I can't agree with that thinking. People have bought the Switch in their droves and I doubt that every single one of them had a PS4 or an XB1. This only shows us that Nintendo fans are still rather single minded in what they purchase for their consoles. 

That old bs line?  For one, I would dare say 90% have another means to play Fifa.  Don't agree, fine.  But if they wanted to convert NEW fans as they expected, well putting out a version that is stripped of features that are touted as major is just going to piss people off.  The idea that all people interested in Fifa on Switch would buy this version despite its glaring omissions is the same misguided concept held at Capcom that people would buy Street Fighter 5 as it was cause that was all they got.  "People that are interested in SF5 will buy it, fuck the missing features."   That ain't how it worked then, ain't how it works now.  People will just not buy a game they are interested in if the available versions are in their minds lacking. 

Also, other games have sold on Switch.  We don't have numbers but on the eshop charts NBA2k18 has done very well despite needing a freaking SD card to be installed.  It's done way, way better than Fifa. 

What this shows is that when you give an audience the finger, they will give it back.