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irstupid on 10 November 2017
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wombat123 said:

Mass Effect Trilogy
Dragon Age Trilogy
Dead Space Trilogy
Sims 4
A good Mirror's Edge game

The big advantages all these games have is that they're all well-known and have some type of parallel to a popular franchise or genre that has a history on Nintendo platforms. There's RPGs (Dragon Age/Mass Effect), Life Simulations/Animal Crossing (Sims 4),  Platforming/3D Mario (Mirror's Edge) and Survival Horror (Dead Space). The problem with EA using FIFA as their testing game is that even though it's popular, there's no connection with Nintendo fans. Nintendo fans don't have a history with sports sims on Nintendo platforms because companies like EA have largely ignored them or have given them scraps for generations.

Well, the switch is a new system and thus you can't hardly just label them all as Nintendo fans. The console is young, the fanbase is not yet cemented.

In so speaking of that, EA attitude doesn't inspire sports fans to purchase a Switch. So they released one FIFA. Big deal. The game could be amazing and a perfect port, but why would sports fan buy a Switch for it when EA's future with the Switch is a giant question mark? If I'm a sports fan, I will get the games on a system I know will continue to get those games. I have no idea if FIFA 19 will be on the Switch. I have no idea if Madden, or any other sports game will be on the Switch. Thus I will stick to the system I know they will be on.

In that sense, you will not build your base on the Switch. The Switch will have no fanbase of sports fans and thus your games will sell like shit on them. This "wait and see, or testing" that companies doe only hurts them when they state things like that.

Same for the Wii era and FPS. You have like one CoD game released it seemed like. Practially zero FPS games beyond that. Obviously any other FPS games would do poorly because fans of FPS didn't buy a WIi. There was no reason to. The genre they like was not on the system. They are not going to buy a Wii for one game. They would buy a Wii if it had a big library of FPS games to play.