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Mnementh on 05 October 2017
Miyamotoo said:
GhaudePhaede010 said:

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.

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. :)

Profit is not all, the level of profit is also important. If you block 100 people for say half a year for a project, and you have a choice between a project that probably makes 10% profit and one that makes probably 50% profit - which do you choose?

It is not like these companies have a lot of people sitting around and waiting for something to port. If they driop a port, these people can do somethign else, maybe something more profitable.



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Plink on 05 October 2017
Xen said:
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!

Honest effort without the possibility to play online with friends?..... I completly disagree



Chrizum on 05 October 2017
GhaudePhaede010 said:
Miyamotoo said:

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.

How about the fact that retailers have to order stock from EA? EA is not the only one with a say in how much stores are going to stock. If retailers are apprehensive to dedicate space to FIFA 18 on Switch (in which they would be correct), stores will not carry as many copies.



Kaneman! on 05 October 2017

About as much as I've expected



Xen on 05 October 2017
Nuvendil said:
Xen said:
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.  

Shipped in low numbers likely because it was ordered in low numbers. As to "didn't try", yeah lol. It got a custom engine, great visuals for a portable, 60FPS, promotion at least across the web - or, do ads not even note it exists on switch? We don't have ads for games on TV over here, so you'd have to tell me. Also, PS4/XBO players certainly buy it for "the journey" - not really.

Some missing features don't strip the fact that it's a good effort otherwise. It would obviously not do extremely well due to the fact there is no legacy for Fifa on Nintendo, but ~1% is straight up dreadful and undeserved.



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Jranation on 05 October 2017
GribbleGrunger said:

Not great but I don't think Nintendo need this just yet.

Are you going to make another thread for the other countries? 



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UltimateUnknown on 05 October 2017

They're still releasing this on 360? I mean come on EA, it's time to move on.



 

GhaudePhaede010 on 05 October 2017
Chrizum said:
GhaudePhaede010 said:

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.

How about the fact that retailers have to order stock from EA? EA is not the only one with a say in how much stores are going to stock. If retailers are apprehensive to dedicate space to FIFA 18 on Switch (in which they would be correct), stores will not carry as many copies.

And on reorder it takes MORE THAN A WEEK? Even if what you said is true, and it isn't, there is no reason it would take amazon a week to get more stock of Fifa on Switch. Even if you expect it to sell poorly, you are telling me it would take more than a week to replentish stock? Come on.



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GhaudePhaede010 on 05 October 2017
Miyamotoo said:
GhaudePhaede010 said:

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.

For me to say anythng else would be redundant. You are willing to conspiracy theory for EA but condescend me as conspiracy theorist against them. What a hypocrite.



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asqarkabab on 05 October 2017

Wow impressive it gets support from ea



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