 So I'm going to combine two topics in here into one video just because I can and that first topic deals with Microsoft they have saluted Publicly that they are now open to any possible cross-platform deal with Nintendo and pretty much any other platform out there that would include PC Obviously that would include maybe even Mac that would include You know Android and iOS devices and obviously PlayStation if Sony ever decides to allow that to happen, which Right now we all know that Sony very very clearly does not believe in cross-play at all now Here is what Microsoft said and this comes from a piece by VG 24 7.com written by Matt Martin It says that Microsoft has said it's ready to have a Conversation with any development team that wants to feature cross-play support on consoles and PC Mike Yabara vice president of Xbox told VG 247 that it's happy to talk about the likes of Valve and Nintendo when it comes to getting multiplayer games working across multiple platforms Just not just between Xbox one and Windows and he says that it's more about gamer choice More about making an IP on our platform that lasts longer. I don't care where they play I just want people to have fun playing games because it's just better for the industry The demands of consumers and developers have changed people are like we want all of our gamers in one Multiplayer pool together playing and we totally agree with that if any developer wants to have that conversation Valve is right down the street from us. Nintendo is too. They're like a block from us We're having these discussions as developers come up and we're completely open to that Obviously, this is probably in response to some questions that dealt with arc survival evolved Which has cross-platform play between Xbox and PC Sony won't allow it to happen And you know forza horizon 3 is cross play between Xbox and PC Crackdown 3 is gonna have cross play see if these is gonna have cross play those obviously Xbox You know kind of games exclusive games, but they also cross play obviously with Minecraft We also know that there's cross play with rocket league between Xbox Nintendo switch and PC So it sounds like Microsoft is essentially said look period you can do cross play It's not a problem and Nintendo so far were cross plays also told developers. Hey look You want to do cross play? Let's make it happen. Like that's literally what Nintendo told the people from from From rocket league when they were like hey, what do you think about cross play and Nintendo said let's make it happen? So this is just really really cool really good on Microsoft. Hopefully Nintendo and Sony keep pushing this and Someday down the road Sony will be forced to change their minds enjoying the party because I would love to have all of The madden player pool together all of the FIFA player pool together All of the Call of Duty player pool together all these multi-platform games We really should all be able to play together. We're all playing the same game. Anyways moving on The other story we're going to talk about today is one I'm gonna have a little bit more to say on and essentially EA talks about FIFA 18 on Nintendo switch And The article title this is an exclusive article on dream team FC calm The title of the articles is FIFA 18 EA sports reveals why it's a good thing that Nintendo Switch version doesn't use frostbite And the idea here is that it's better looking than any FIFA They've released on 360 and PlayStation 3 and that if they use frostbite it for some reason wouldn't be better looking Some interesting thoughts on that, but let's just get right into the article It's written by Tala Musa and they say that frostbite the in-house engine developed by EA dice powers FIFA 18 on Xbox one PlayStation 4 PC However FIFA on switch will use a custom engine based on the ignite code from FIFA 16 Well EA confirmed the switch can handle frostbite the company opted to build a unique engine Because it would have been heavily downgraded Resulting in a cruddy second-rate game Andrea Lazarezcu who leads the team at Budakras who's working on FIFA for Nintendo switch Told dream team gaming as much as we would have wanted to use frostbite You can't without making the whole engine work We intentionally chose to do a custom engine because we felt that rather and tried to get frostbite running and End up having to downsize things and making it just a smaller Lower quality version of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox one versions We wanted this to be a FIFA that stands on its own two feet We want people to recognize it and play it for what it is rather than saying hey You're getting a cruddy second-rate game. This is a full FIFA that lets players that players will enjoy For those worried about the lack of frostbite Loads of rescue is confident the switch version looks far superior than Xbox 360 and place in three PlayStation 3 versions And they say if you put the two together you won't recognize them when you dock the game It's 1080p and 60 frames per second Gen 3 PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 could never run the game like this We're also using physics base rendering another thing that Gen 3 did not have we're even putting icons in Ultimate team Gen 3 won't have the ease either If you for 18 is actually not going to put to Xbox 360 in PlayStation 3 It's one of the first FIFA's to not be going to that platform and It's really interesting You know it looks like she comments a little bit on career mode this career mode is probably a similar experience to last year's Version it's an experience that has been catered for this season Because career mode is missing some features That the FIFA 18 has an Xbox one to PlayStation 4 and then when asked if anything the switch does differently in the mode He said in career mode. No while this may disappoint some players. It could prove very handy for those that are already familiar with the game So yeah, it's It's really interesting all the link to this article and the one I mentioned about Microsoft below So you can go on and read some of the additional comments being made I don't know what to think about this defense because on one hand ea is obviously going to defend the decision to not use frostbite on the other hand I Don't know like when people say There's such a thing we don't want people to compare this to other console versions of the game well at the same time comparing it to last-gen versions of the game and I don't get a why Why this is the defense all they had to say is that You know they didn't have time to port the full frostbite engine So they decided to go with one of their older engines and customize it for switch because it's faster to do And they're able you know That's all they really had to say they didn't have to spin it into this thing This is the best possible decision if we had ported frostbite entirely it just would have been a downgraded version It's still a downgraded version. It's missing features. The animations are not as good. The visuals are not as good Uh Even in career mode. It's missing features like it's It is a downgraded fifa 18 that's using the fifa 16 engine This is why I don't get it like They say they that's this defense just baffles me. Okay. You say you didn't want to use frostbite Because it's better For the switch to not use it to not be compared But it's still called fifa 18 and it's still going to be compared and then you go ahead and compare it to systems That are a generation old and weaker than the nintendo switch Yes, if you look at the nintendo switch version of the game It's going to look better than the 360 and playstation 3 version Of course, it's going to because it's a more powerful system. It's supposed to look better And yes, it runs at a higher frame rate because it's got better cpu's then Then those systems it should have run at a higher frame rate uh The thing is is I don't think people who own switch and i'm one of them So I don't know I can't speak for all of you, but personally I realize when we get multi platform games We're not going to have necessarily the best performing or the best looking versions of the games We know that we know there's a sacrifice for those games to be portable, but I don't think that's a barrier I think this excuse is just a bunch of bs and I I think you guys think it is too Uh If they had a chance to get frostbite fully running this year They should have did it because if they did madden could have came You know mba 2k or not 2k. I'm sorry Whatever that's not they don't make the mba live series could have came They could have really did something special here By having frostbite come over because that serves to enable things like battlefield And all the other games that run on frostbite, which is a large chunk of ea's library Could have potentially came over with frostbite here. The reality is we know what's up Ea does not have a ton of games coming to switch. It has fifa 18 and fifa 18 So we know ea is just testing the water They're dipping their toes into the switch Seeing if they can make any money on it and if they do they will bring full support next year I mean that that's really it that there's no Uh Guessing here. There's no need for me to explain it further than that. We know what ea is doing That's why I mean this person uses a swear word You know what I said cruddy second right game. That wasn't the word. They didn't use the word cruddy They used a certain s word and it's like why are you? so passionately Defending the decision to use the older ignite engine From 2016's fifa and arguing about frame rate and and you know And resolution and how the game looks better than consoles that are over a decade old like it It just baffles my mind. We shouldn't be comparing this to the xbox 360 and playstation 3 because Those are like generation old hardware that came out in 2005 and 2006. We're talking about 2017 Of course, it's still going to be compared to xbox one and playstation 4 And of course, it's not going to compare favorably in terms of you know, the best resolutions And I mean, it's going to compare favorably frame rate wise obviously But it's not going to compare favorably visually and cutscene wise and close ups All that people all that really matters is that the gameplay is on par, right? That's all I expect that they had ported frostbite and gave us the full version of fifa 18 Just downgraded in terms of visual quality But we're still able to hit 60 fps and we're still able to have the same quality of gameplay and animations Then I would be perfectly happy with that And I think most people buying fifa on switch would be perfectly happy with that as well This is just what's so frustrating. I don't I know that It's really hard for developers to admit They're doing something as a test and I don't expect ea to to admit over testing the waters with fifa But they really shouldn't just throw all these bs excuses That oh, we just don't want it to be a cruddy version of fifa 18 So we custom built it on a completely different engine and it's the best looking it's ever been on portable And it's better looking than playstation 3 and xbox 360 when I mean if it wasn't better looking than playstation 3 and xbox 360 then you guys are really not doing a good job Because the switch is severely more powerful than a 360 and a playstation 3 so yeah, it's Ah, it's just I guess ea being ea, but hey at least microsoft is completely open to cross play in pretty much all capacities That's always good news And nintendo is probably right on board to nintendo hasn't made any public statements about it But come on nintendo hasn't blocked it already with the two third parties that wanted to do it They're not going to block it in the future any company that wants to do it can do it You know if madding comes to the system next year and he's using frostbite Nintendo could easily be like hey, let's cross play it up between xbox And us and we'll talk to sony, but they're gonna say no Anyways folks, I understand your awful chance from nintendo prime if you like this video You know what to do and if you dislike the video hit that dislike button subscribe for more and hey I'll catch you in the next one