This reads like "They don't love Fifa so we don't have a freaking clue of what those aliens may like"

I think EA has already guaged the market and they realized there's not much reason for the  to get involved in Switch.  They're just trying to play it coy and not outright say, "Nintendo gamers don't like us" - just look at this thread. :)

Personally, I'd be one more vote for, "I can live without EA".  Maybe a decent Sims port or one NHL game could weasel their way into my collection.

Your point? 

Can we at least get one EA apologist in here to tell us what we're missing and why this should matter to us? Just one? It would be ineteresting to see EA try to cater to the Nintendo audience for once instead of the other way around. It's not like it would be difficult to buy a startup indie company that could make a great 2D throw back game or an amazing 3D collectathon game like Ratchet or Jak and Daxter. I know that's "not how it works" but with as much money as they have it wouldn't be difficult to greenlight a few safe (financially) and crazy (theme, design, idea) projects that could get them to understand the Switch market a little better.

What's EA?

Seriously EA are the stupidest idiots ever if they don't think at least Star Wars games would sell well, since that was never a problem on Nintendo at all.

EA's recent leadership has legendarily stupid instincts.

They decide to give the Wii U phenomenal support and the Switch underwhelming support. But things have been really bad very recently.

Notice how their stock just plummeted after this announcement. Unfortunately, Nintendo got dinged up a little as well, but the brunt of the damage is on EA's market value.

Looks like the Switch audience's interest in FIFA wasn't sufficient. But actually, why mobilize an entire dev team for 1% of sales? EA is just taking the rational conclusions for its business.

You were starting to get on to what I'm thinking is EA's thinking. I have a feeling we'd have a firmer idea of what EA truly wants to do with the Switch if Nintendo had fully unveiled its online plans and functionality this year like originally planned. We know that multiplayer games and microtransactions are a major part of EA's business strategy, so we have to see how well it can adapt that to Nintendo's online support.

Yeah, because gauging with a gimped game will always do well and show off exactly what the players want (a non-gimped version of the game, but that certainly never the conclusion they'll draw)

Besides, it's not like swapping a couple of players around in the game and slapping a 19 on the package would be very expensive now that they have an engine for the Switch version.

Your statement implies that only Switch users have standards, or at least enough standards to not buy games from greedy AAA publishers, which certainly ain't true

On the other hand, I wish this would happen on the other consoles too, pryving EA from their main source of income and ultimately going bankrupt - but I doubt there will be enough who would follow such a line on any support.

I don't miss EA as well... and that is how I also read it "since what we do have no interest on Switch userbase we will look elsewhere".

That know it's good because Nintendo made it.

You can't be rational around here son.