EA: "There isn't much room for other titles than 1st party on Switch"

[zorg1000]

DonFerrari said:

zorg1000 said:

Late ports/remasters have also sold well on Switch like Monster Hunter Generations, Skyrim & Crash N Sane Trilogy all selling over a million and possible over 2 million. That's on par with PS4/XBO late ports/remasters with the exception of GTA V, which I think we can agree is a massive outlier.

The thing is that you cant say your games arent a match for a platform or wont be profitable if you have made no attempt to release them on said platform. What evidence is EA using to conclude games like Need for Speed, Star Wars & Plants vs Zombies wouldnt be successful on Switch?

Can`t you really?

"All" a company do before launching any product is based on not releasing a product and doing projections. That is basically how they decide to release.

And that shows exactly how incompetent EAs projections are.

3DS

Sims 3-March 2011

Madden NFL Football-March 2011

FIFA 12-September 2011

Sims 3: Pets-October 2011

Need for Speed: The Run-November 2011

Wii U

Madden 13-November 2013

FIFA 13-November 2013

Mass Effect 3-November 2013

Need for Speed: Most Wanted-March 2013

Switch

FIFA 18-September 2017

Fe-February 2018

FIFA 19-September 2017

Unravel 2-March 2019

FIFA 20-September 2019

EA released 5 games on 3DS, from 4 franchises, in its first 8 months

EA released 4 games on Wii U, from 4 franchises, in the first 4 months

EA released 5 games on Switch, from 3 franchises, in the first 2.5 years.

There is no internal projections that show franchises like Madden, Need for Speed, The Sims, Star Wars or Plants vs Zombies wouldnt be successful on Switch, EA is just plain stubborn and cant be bothered to release their games on Switch.