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

[DonFerrari]

padib said:

DonFerrari said:

I think you and I agree on most points. I'll just talk about 3 on which you seemed to have misunderstood me.

1 & 2: Confidence in Nintendo, Ability to make money on Nintendo:

Here, we don't understand each other because what I mean by confidence is this: they don't trust that they can make money for themselves on a Nintendo brand. You seem to be saying the same thing. EA does not believe that they can make money on a Nintendo brand. Since we both agree that they love money, if they did have that confidence, they would go and try to make the money. But like you said, they are afraid to lose money because of some cases in the past. Some were their own fault, some were Nintendo's fault.

Yep we both agree on this. EA may be right or wrong or their capability to make money, but considering the games they do I would say they probably wouldn't profit much (thankfully).

One thing is for certain, is that EA is not a partner for Nintendo. They will leech money where the money is, and leave when it is not there and not help build the platform. They will pump out garbage content to make a cheap buck while diluting the platform's value, with no sense of the long-term effects on Nintendo and on their own (EA's) long-term success on Nintendo's platform. It is completely different from their attitude on Sony & MS platforms, and it can almost be seen as a form of SABOTAGE. Remember this term because that is why Nintendo fans are outraged at them. For Nintendo fans, the quality of the platform and of the support it gets is #1 because it guarantees a healthy library over the long run. EA ruins that party.

Well EA wouldn't really be partner for Sony or MS as well, they leech money on both platforms, it is just that they have had a lot more success with their bad practices on these two platforms.

3: Sony & MS vs Nintendo on 3rd parties:

This one comes back to the above point. EA is not a partner to Nintendo because Nintendo doesn't throw money at 3rd parties. This is a practice started by Sony, pushed even further by Microsoft, and it is a bit of a shameful practice in a sense. It makes Sony & MS in a sense slaves to 3rd parties, and EA gets comfortable choosing the highest bidder. It promotes this focus on money and gain, which fits EA perfectly.

Don't disagree.

Nintendo was known to refuse such a philosophy, and made EA perhaps quite upset.

Compare that now to Nintendo's approach, which invites 3rd parties to collaborate on games, to make games together as a team, that invests in making struggling companies succeed (Platinum) and that typically takes chances in smaller companies (Mistwalker, Monolith soft). A company that collaborates with other companies to promote healthy development practices in order to foster a sustainable industry.

Sure Nintendo improved their relationship with 3rd parties but it is still quite timid don't you agree? And on the taking chances or supporting small companies Sony and MS have done that also supporting struggling companies (I haven`t heard of Platinum struggling, I just heard of Bayonetta not being profitable so they wouldn`t release and Nintendo jumped in to have it, and that is a good thing for sure even more when at least 1M owners on Nintendo system seemed to appreciate the game).

Of course EA does not understand that, nor do they want to. (That is, until Nintendo becomes truly great as is their destiny and EA has no choice but to join the party.)

I fall back on what I said, EA is a greedy developer, and they have a conflict of vision and interest with Nintendo, and so they make up stupid reasons as to why they should not develop on Nintendo platforms, and to people who see through it, it stinks.

Agree with this as well, and sure there may be a time when EA will either see Nintendo platform as worth for them or they will be obligated to at least try because they aren`t finding enough profit on PS5/XSX.