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KLAMarine on 03 October 2017
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Cloudman said:
I don't know if I would say I'm all that surprised. This is the UK market we're talking about, which seems to me to be one of Nintendo's weakest markets. I'm curious on sales for other regions. I don't know if the initial sales for this one game equals doom for Nintendo regarding 3rd party support either.

No, I think just Fifa as far as this example is concerned assuming the effort in porting and then selling Switch Fifa didn't yield profit for EA. My guess is the process wasn't too expensive if EA is still bothering to port to the 360.

Additionally, some third parties sold best on Switch. I think Sonic Mania sold best on Switch judging by Amazon rankings.

rjason12 said:
KLAMarine said:

2.8%? Certainly helps to put things into perspective.

The question then becomes if the porting process was ultimately profitable or at least cheap. I understand there's a 360 version which is about as powerful as a Switch so I have to wonder if the Switch version is just a port of the 360 version... Would make economic sense for EA to handle the Switch version this way.

Switch is way more powerful than 360. Has like 8x the amount of ram, and a more modern architect.

I'll take your word for it: even if it were about as powerful, the Switch is tiny compared to the 360 so impressive either way, at least to me.