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Mr Puggsly on 31 January 2020
SammyGiireal said:
They would make money on the switch, Call of Duty would make money on the Switch. It won't sell 10 million units but it can sell 1-2 million units. There should be profit. Maybe they are lazy at optimizing games for the hardware. Maybe they are looking for that 10 mill number...I suspect that if the Switch keeps selling at the pace that it is selling at...we will see Madden and eventually some remaster of last gen CoD on it.

Given how well Switch has done its quite surprising EA hasn't tested the water with 7th gen ports. But remasters aren't really something they do much.

EA's focus is just making games for Xbox, Playstation and PC. So if you don't play on Switch you certainly have options.



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ArchangelMadzz on 31 January 2020

When you can't use the install base excuse, or power excuse you gotta find something else.



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TomaTito on 31 January 2020
RolStoppable said:

More on topic, if EA's market research showed that shitty games don't sell well on Switch, then it's the correct call for EA to refrain from putting more games on Switch.

The Nintendo audience has not grown accustomed to their malpractice releases since they were infrequent over time. Whenever a port did happen, it would come as a shock to those inexperienced clients.

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Ljink96 on 31 January 2020

EA gonna EA. They're just talking straight out of their ass at this point.



DonFerrari on 31 January 2020

Nothing new under the sun. And probably they deem it not enough profit to be made in several of the games they release on PS4/X1 if they were to port to Switch. But yes let's hate EA for not releasing the games we wouldn't buy anyway.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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Chicho on 31 January 2020
Dulfite said:
Vgchartz Switch Numbers in database:
Minecraft - 1.89 million
Skyrim - 1.15 million
Crash Bandicoot trilogy - 1.11 million
Fifa18 - 1.10 million
Octopath Traveler - 1.02 million

How many does EA need to sell to think it's profitable? If a million isn't enough then that's sad. I'm sure if they released all their games on Switch they'd sell enough to profit and save their company some face.

That number seem low to me because minecraft switch is over a million in Japan alone.



Wyrdness on 31 January 2020

EA are expected to say this because their business model that revolves around microtransactions in multiplayer games and Nintendo's userbases on their platforms have always been the least receptive to this especially as they're platforms sold mainly off single player games something EA wrote off only to prove themselves wrong so obviously they'd do everything to not put anything on the platform the problem for them is the shareholders don't care they see a potential diamond mine so EA have to come up with excuses as to why they haven't made any proper effort.



AJNShelton on 31 January 2020
GoOnKid said:
SwitchUP said:
EA: we cant sell loot shit boxes on the switch, so theres no room for our worthless garbage. Fuck you EA, nobody noticed you werent there any fucking way. This is the only company that's shittier than crapcom. What an achievement.

Activision Blizzard says hi. I fully agree on everything else, though.

Well Activision put Crash and Spyro trilogies, didn't they ?

And those games are well suited for the console



DonFerrari on 31 January 2020
SKMBlake said:
GoOnKid said:

Activision Blizzard says hi. I fully agree on everything else, though.

Well Activision put Crash and Spyro trilogies, didn't they ?

And those games are well suited for the console

And EA put Unravel on Switch because that is also suited.

Now, they won't put a lot of money in a port that they don't expect to profit enough on the system. But as always everyone in VGC is a better businessman than company heads proven by track record of both =p



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

KLXVER on 31 January 2020
DonFerrari said:
Nothing new under the sun. And probably they deem it not enough profit to be made in several of the games they release on PS4/X1 if they were to port to Switch. But yes let's hate EA for not releasing the games we wouldn't buy anyway.

We don't need another reason to hate EA... and we certainly don't need to defend them.