 So this little bit of news kind of flew under the radar over the last couple of days at least under my radar I'm sure some of you might have seen this story elsewhere But it appears that EA might have already abandoned the Nintendo switch after the release of FIFA 18 That might be a slight overreaction But I'm not sure how else to take this so EA chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen told the Wall Street Journal The publisher plans to wait until the console has been on the market a full year Before deciding whether to make more games for it According to Jorgensen, it's too early to judge the success of FIFA 18 on Nintendo switch Which you mean might be able to take that as a positive and then he says as such EA wants to fully understand What the demand is for the platform before committing more development resources to making new games for the platform That to me sounds like it's EA saying we're done with the switch Without Saying they're done with the switch. I don't know if we should really be all that surprised I know some people got on me for my report on the poor sales of switch in the UK but Well final sales figures are not here if the sales figures were actually good and as expected or better There wouldn't be this tepid attitude of yeah, we're gonna wait Basically, we want to wait a few months and see what happens with sales. See if they essentially are gonna say look Nintendo We're gonna give you the holiday season if FIFA 18 sells a crap load during the holiday season. We will commit more games remember back when I said that some third parties and I was chiefly pointing at EA because they're the ones that seem to do this the most were dipping their toes in the water and Everything was reliant upon a single game Selling well a single game that some might argue is a little gimped although I think FIFA 18 is actually a fun game on switch I think it's a worthwhile experience. Is it as good as the full version of FIFA 18 on the other platforms? No But it's good. I mean, I can't say they didn't let these give us a good playable version of FIFA but It appears the sales must not be that impressive as is Because if they were and they have access to the digital sales as well as physical so even if physical Sales weren't impressive. They would know what digital demand is. It appears that things are not looking good For FIFA 18 on switch and if things are not looking good for FIFA 18 on switch The fact that EA is like, yeah, we're gonna wait a full year That means that they're not willing to commit any of their current development resources to switch until at least March or April of 2017 and when that is the case when that happens It's almost too late to commit any of your games in 2018 for the platform because in Order for those games to come over you're going to have to start working out frostbite now In fact start working on frostbite earlier this year to make frostbite run on switch And if you're not if you haven't done that yet And you're not willing to commit even a FIFA 19 or a Madden or or any other game to the platform until You know the first quarter of next year That pretty much means that we're if we do get games in 2018 They're again going to be subpar port jobs If they come at all and they might not bring anything till 2019 even because again a lot of these games are already well in development The next FIFA game is already in development The next Madden game is already in development. These are yearly franchises. These games are already in development It's really hard to come in, you know five six seven months into development be like hey By the way, we're also gonna bring this a switch and try and day and date it good luck Especially when you have not fully ported over your frostbite engine. So Yeah, EA and switch Maybe this isn't a surprise We haven't heard anything from 2k yet. We don't know I know what's happening on that side of the triple a stream Maybe they're maybe the NBA 2k 18 sales are actually really really good on switch I don't know. We don't have any numbers yet A physical version didn't release till October. So we won't get the October physical sales until later this month But yeah, this is obviously disappointing to say the least I know some of you guys out there are gonna be like who cares. I don't care about FIFA. I don't care about EA Games, but here's the deal like EA has the exclusive license for Star Wars games So if you want a Star Wars video game on switch, it's not gonna happen without EA In addition, there's EA games. I do like I like the Dragon Age series You know pretty much anything Bioware puts out. I enjoy even if the games aren't maybe as good as they used to be Uh, I also enjoy games like battlefield You know the battlefield world war one game is really really really good And I would have loved to see even a late port of that on switch Uh, there's other games too like madden. I'm a huge madden fan And all this really is guaranteed is that I'm going to have to own an xbox one or a playstation 4 or an xbox one x or whatever The case may be pretty much forever Um because games like madden don't even come to pc, right? So if I want to continue to play that I'm gonna have to continue to own other platforms Uh, and that's not really a problem. I don't have an issue owning multiple platforms But I I want that convenience of taking it on the go I mean they made madden for 3ds for crying out loud and they're not even doing it for switch granted I was obviously a massively watered down version of madden that wasn't any good, but at least they Tried And I guess that's what we could say about fifa 18 this year Uh I'm disappointed in this. I guess this should be expected But ea I think is making a big mistake if you look at the sales of switch It's just flying off shells right now And it's not just nintendo games that are selling while we have this month coming up with a bunch of third party games Right now I mean we're we're giving away three of these third party games this month And I have a feeling these third party games are going to sell very very well heading into this holiday season And if that's the case ea is just going to miss the boat entirely Uh, it's just it's frustrating. It's really really frustrating on one hand Nintendo's getting awesome third party support from a company like Bethesda on the other hand ea is doing the ea thing And like look we didn't make we didn't sell as many copies as we thought basically But you know what we're not going to make a final verdict yet We're going to give nintendo another handful of months to try to sell the game And nintendo has been putting fifa 18 into their commercials and everything But that doesn't mean the game's going to sell anymore than it has already Most people probably interested in fifa 18 on switch have already purchased fifa 18 on switch. So this This I don't know you guys tell me what you think about these quotes down in the comments below Again, I know i'm late on the boat on this and I do apologize for my late reaction But this just oh this irks me ea has essentially abandoned nintendo already At a time when switch is like the hottest thing on the market Against all rhyme logic and reason without ever giving one game with 100 full effort to the platform. They're gone Just it just doesn't make sense to me Anyways folks, I am Nathaniel ruffle jats from nintendo prime and I hope I'm wrong about all this I hope that Apparently fifa 18 just sells really really well during the holidays and they fully commit next year. I just don't see it happening Uh, I am Yeah, thanks for joining the this video like it if you like it dislike it if you dislike it and you know what folks I'm just gonna have to Catch you in the next one Really ea man Seriously