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GoOnKid on 03 November 2017
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DonFerrari said:
DarthMetalliCube said:

Neither really.. Although it's true I'm not fond of many of these AAA style games that populate the Sony and MS console libraries, as many feel either overly convoluted and/or linear, glorified interactive movies. Not to say they aren't "quality" but many are certainly overhyped. But whatever, that's besides the point..

EA doesn't even necessarily have to make insanely good games or games that cater specifically to Nintendo's audience, or even exclusive games. Just port over some of your better games and chances are you'll get some decent returns on them judging by the strong Switch sales that doesn't look to slow anytime soon. I think Bethesda will soon prove this. 

I just find it hard to believe that many indies can seemingly figure out the Switch audience enough to flourish on the platform, or at least make decent returns, but this major publisher that's been in the game for decades cannot? 

Well I will refrain from commenting on the typical Nintendo fan mentality that others are making realistic and boring games, will consider that "taste".

Fifa is the best selling EA game, and from what some Nintendo fans said the game is quite good (just missing some things the other games have), so selling 1% is nowhere normal.

From what we see on this forum ANY and EVERYTHING is used as excuse by Nintendo fans to not buy a 3rd party game "out of principle", and has been like that since at least Wii (we can't say for before because VGC wasn't around). It is always the 3rd parties have to tailor their game to Nintendo or overcome the weak hardware for Nintendo fans to consider buying.

So if EA need to make a game specifically to the taste of Nintendo fans they won't do because the userbase is smaller, if they have to just port sure Nintendo fans can pressure both EA and Nintendo to get the port. But the amount of times AAA publishers failed on Nintendo HW isn't helping they trying.

It's still only the UK market where it's 1%. You love solid numbers, don't you? Then stop bringing back these 1% from the UK when we don't know the other numbers.

And yes, a 3rd party game can be successful on a Nintendo console, it just has to be complete and good. Examples are plenty.