EA says FIFA for Switch is FIFA 18, reiterates that it’s “custom built”

EA has now officially come out and said that it’s new FIFA title for Switch will indeed be FIFA 18. While that was largely expected, it had only been labeled previously as just “FIFA”.

EA’s chief competitive officer, Peter Moore, told Gamereactor at a FIFA event held in Paris this weekend:

“Well, as we have said, we are custom-building a FIFA version for the Nintendo Switch. It will be FIFA 18, and it will obviously be later this year when FIFA 18 comes out.”

“And I look forward to seeing the Nintendo Switch. we are not far away from its launch and in fact, here in Paris, I was very impressed to see FNAC stores with Nintendo Switch in the windows.”

Gamereactor also asked about FIFA for Switch being a slimmed down version of the game on other platforms in light of rumors that it’ll be closer to the PS3 and Xbox 360 edition. He said in response, “What you have will be a custom built version for the Nintendo Switch from the FIFA development team in Vancouver.”

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All that matters is that Nintendo and EA have an exclusive marketing deal for it. As long as that happens, it could be based on a PS2 build and it would still sell.

he neither confirmed nor denied the downgrading, still a bit skeptical, hope its just usual pr talk vagueness.

So, one of the biggest video games sellers here advertises a new console one month before the release? MEGATON!! 

About FIFA, it will obviously be a downgraded version. You can't put the exact same version if the console is less powerful, that's just logical.

I would really like to see what version is EA actually porting: an upgraded mobile version, the PS360 or maybe, just maybe, an actually full fledged version made for the Switch. FIFA's sucess or failure is going to influence a lot in the big western 3rd party support of the Switch.

I very much doubt that'd ever happen.

Can't wait which features it doesn't have when the actual Fifa 18 comes out.

Cool for people interested in FIFA... I'm not one of those but my cousin who is interested in Switch might be but he's got an Xbox One so he'll be set with the EA subscription thing, whatever it's called.

Hopefully the Switch part of Fifa will look very interesting to people. Probably they going to market it like that 2K game

And i'm sure Nintendo will make a new Mario Soccer along with this.