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Forums - Gaming - Bioware Says Mass Effect Andromeda Won’t Be Coming To Nintendo Switch

melbye on 22 October 2016

Expected that, FIFA and Madden will be the extent of EA Switch-support, if that



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Ariakon on 22 October 2016

It's one of the games I'll be getting the Pro for, so not a big deal for me. 

 

If I do get a Switch, though, I wonder how many 3rd-party games I'd actually buy for it. It's going to be hard to go against the Pro, unless the game caters particularly well to play on the go. And Nintendo games, of course :)



Valdath on 22 October 2016

A Nintendo console with no western third party support?

Damn, really surprising.



JRPGfan on 22 October 2016

Switch isnt powerfull enough for it most likely... or able to run the engine it was made on..

 

Valdath said:
A Nintendo console with no western third party support?
Damn, really surprising.

Bussiness as usual.



pokoko on 22 October 2016

Can't really tell what this means until we know the specs for the Switch.

Damn, though, typing "the Switch" is starting to suck.

Maybe EA doesn't think it's worthwhile to put that kind of game on the Switch, maybe it couldn't run the game well as-is, maybe they have a port planned but can't talk about it and don't want to hurt sales for the launch-day versions.

Who knows.



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Barkley on 22 October 2016

Any third party title from developers such as bioware that love to push demanding games won't be coming to switch. I don't expect The Witcher, Rockstar Games, or future open-world bethesda games will come to Switch either.



mountaindewslave on 22 October 2016

Bioware and Nintendo have zero history of a working relationship. even if the Switch was higher powered it probably wouldn't happen. When is the last time you've seen a Bioware game on ANY Nint platform? they don't really seem to release handheld games either.

Not a big news factor in my eyes



Areym on 22 October 2016

A ME Trilogy for the Switch would be great though (assuming it's not the shitty PS3 ports for ME1) to build hype towards andromeda. A shame but I can't say i'm surprised.



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markodeniro on 22 October 2016

If the Switch sells well they'll do it.



JRPGfan on 22 October 2016
markodeniro said:
If the Switch sells well they'll do it.

Theres gonna be 100m+ PS4's and 50m+ XB1's, and PCs out there too.

Unless The Switch really sell well (near PS4 levels) I doubt they will bother.

 

Most people get 3rd Party games for the most powerfull system they own....

which would mean people that own more than 1 system would likely not get it for the Switch.

Its the same old same old.  Its also why alot of bigger 3rd party simply skip porting titles to nintendo systems.