With such a low number, I would have to doubt that. I also learned that EA's exclusivity deal with Fifa states they have to make at least one Fifa title for every console. So if another Vita comes out, they have to make a Fifa for that, too. This gives a lot more explanation to why they may have spent the money only to sabotage their title. They really had no choice in making the game. It may also explain why they announced no other titles for Switch; because they are not contractually obligated to do as much.

Okay!

Well we now have a logical answer. It is stipulated in EA's contract with Fifa that a game must be made for every major platform. So, that would explain why they may want to sabotage their own title. They really never wanted to work with Nintendo or on Nintendo's hardware but in the case of Fifa, they have no choice. To justify not ever working with Nintendo again, they make a bad product, under ship it, do not promote it, and use the low sales as an excuse to never work on Nintendo's hardware again. This also explains why they would not announce or even talk about making any other titles for Switch, because outside of an outlier situation, they never planned to work on Switch.

I don't know. I'm just judging by the level of enthusiasm Brits have for soccer. I'm guessing they buy at least 100 copies per citizen.

Those are some quite theories of conspiracy. :D

For devs is quite simple, if they think they can make profit buy porting some game to some platform, they will port game. People definitely overreacting about those 1% in UK, I mean Fifa 18 on Switch in Japan sold around 22% of all Fifa sales in Japan. :)

I have never used 1% in any conversation. I said it is rather strange that the game sold out on amazon.uk and GAME but did not push 10,000 units. There is nothing you can say to me that will convince me that is not sabotage. Nothing. And now I have a logical explanation as to why and I listed it above. I have no idea why 1% was brought up by you in the context of a conversation I do not think involved you from the start.

As far as devs thinking they can make a profit, all of that goes out the window when the developer is contractually obligated to make a game for new hardware. No matter what the developer thiinks, they have a contract to honor. Now, I am sounding redundant.

I didn't said you used 1% but people in this thread definitely overreacting because those 1% in UK. We dont know why Switch version of Fifa 18 is undershiped in some way, but hardly that EA is sabotaging their product, it doesnt make any sense, to make good product and effort and than sabotage that. What are you saying are definatly theories of conspiracy.

But they agreed for that contract on first place, if they wanted they could not sign it at all on first place.

Yeahhhhhh... that is the first and now last Fifa that got an honest effort from EA on Nintendo. You can't say that they didn't try!

Given it was missing not only the Journey but also a random selection of features for no apparent reason, got no promotion, apparently was shipped in low numbers, and they posted neither trailers nor in game screenshots anywhere in the build up to launch to even *try* to build interest I can most definitely say they didn't try.  Or at least didn't try very hard.  

Seriously, the fact people are sweeping all this under the rug to give EA - freaking Electronic Arts - the benefit of the doubt is dumbfounding.  

Yeah, well, sounds reasonabe. By the way, we germans are even bigger soccer/football enthusiasts, so here everyone buy at least 150 copies. ;-P