UK is Nintendo weakest market and this version is missing a few feautures, but 1% is still a bit low.Hopefully it is not the same in the other territories.

I was fully expecting it. I picked mine up friday, I could already see the stacks of Fifa titles behind the counter. The Switch version was way lower in quantity. The demand simply isn't there. That's why Bethesda is talking about growing a relationship with Nintendo gamers. It is something that needs to grow, a single (lesser) Fifa isn't going to do it overnight.

Thanks for answering my request for a clarification anyway (even if I noticed what you were trying to say while you were typing it).

In any case, I agree with your sentiment (but I have a vested interest in seeing RPGs and rhythm games succeed anyway, heh).

To add: FIFA 18 Switch ver. is definitely an entry that needs to prove itself first - not in terms of features, but in terms of appeal (it's an entry that is best advertised with demonstration and word-of-mouth). So, its legs will definitely be more of interest to me (though they won't be enough to offset poor first week sales, in this case).

Can you tell me which one is weaker? Because if we're talking about the ME or LA, then that's a different conversation.

This is terrible no matter how you spin it. Wonder how EA will react to this, seeing how they already put in significant effort to make a custom version of the game to accommodate to the underpowered hardware in the Switch.

He probably means that in relative terms.

The weakest market for Nintendo in absolute terms is obviously the Vatican City.

One must ask the question of how the third party situation will be impacted by other titles doing decently but FIFA not doing so.

I mean true, FIFA has been high on the Eshops in America for a while, same with NBA 2K and the like. But can E.A look at FIFA and see their mistakes instead of the disinterest of Switch users for their game?

Well, Mario+Rabbids doing really well will push other companies to try and get Nintendo crossovers, and also getting more support from Ubisoft. Also, I can see 2K porting XCOM to the Switch, to offer a deeper alternative to the game in a year or two.

Bethesda games getting quite a lot of hype (mostly Skyrim and DOOM, Wolfenstein is still too far) means that they'll probably sell well enough, at least to justify the porting effors. I'm pretty convinced now that Skyrim is going to outsell FIFA by a decent margain.

NBA 2K doing well while FIFA does poorly maybe makes Konami bring PES to the console to throw their hat into the ring, specially when they can promote it more heavily in Japan.

EA might be angry of FIFA's results and decide to cut loses with EA Sports there. It would be sad, but if all EA Sports games are going to be inferior versions of the original games, maybe other companies can try and fill their hole. Besides, who needs regular football when we can have Mario Strikers?

Lol

I thought Switch owners were desperately needing games for the system..... What am I missing?