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

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DonFerrari said:

GhaudePhaede010 said:

By that logic, why would you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to ship such a low number? They make money from retailer buys and not consumer buys anyway. So, if they oversell to retailers, it becomes less their issue than the retailers problem. Would that not sound like self sabotage to you? Invest all that money and then not even attempt to sell them... yes, that sounds like self sabotage to me.

By that logic they could he shipping 200k WW and be enough to break even or start a relationship with Switch and if it's sold out make a second batch of games. Makes much more sense than burn money just to say they tried.

Well we now have a logical answer. It is stipulated in EA's contract with Fifa that a game must be made for every major platform. So, that would explain why they may want to sabotage their own title. They really never wanted to work with Nintendo or on Nintendo's hardware but in the case of Fifa, they have no choice. To justify not ever working with Nintendo again, they make a bad product, under ship it, do not promote it, and use the low sales as an excuse to never work on Nintendo's hardware again. This also explains why they would not announce or even talk about making any other titles for Switch, because outside of an outlier situation, they never planned to work on Switch.