EA CEO Says Switch 2 Will Give 'Real Energy' to EA Sports FC and Madden - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 February 2025 / 2,673 Views
Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson in an earnings call with investors on Tuesday was asked about the potential EA games have on the Nintendo Switch 2.
"Any time a new console comes into the marketplace, that's of a benefit to us," said Wilson (via VideoGamesChronicle). "It gives us the ability to access and acquire new players. Typically, we’ve had franchises perform very well on Nintendo platforms.
He added, "Certainly, our expectation is that products like [EA Sports FC] and Madden and others might find real energy on the platform, as they have done in the past.
"When you think about something like The Sims and the My Sims Cozy Bundle, which performed well ahead of our expectations – 50 percent of all players were new to EA – that represents a great opportunity for us.
"So again, [there is] nothing in our models at this juncture. But our expectation is that any time a great new console comes into the marketplace that gives us access to new players and new communities, that we have the IP that will benefit from that."
The Nintendo Switch 2 is set to launch later this year.
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Would they even go so far as to say it can be an.. “unprecedented partnership”?
This.
Wii U was a failure, granted. Switch 2 has almost no chance of being a failure. But it's right to be skeptical when Switch is on track to possibly be the best-selling platform of all-time and EA still didn't put The Sims or Madden on it. I get that Switch has garbage online and weak specs, but I guarantee those IPs would still be successful on Switch.
EA’s equivalent to a PR blowjob for Nintendo fans.
They still suck.
Andrew Wilson, the "it needs to be GaaS to make money" guy.... Sigh
2-3 years later Switch 2 gets legacy editions. But FIFA/ Football FC is the same game every year. Only the new players enter, olds leave.😂 But nice that EA seems to realize how many people seem to be interested in the Switch 2. So sweet... i am triggering Fifaboys.😀
Switch 2 is looking like it might be the first Nintendo system since the GC to get significant third party support.
Switch 1 already does and has the best third party support of any NIntendo console ever made. wtf you smoking. Also EA blows smoke like this every generation then backs off.
Switch 3rd party support is still very limited in regards to high profile releases. Very few new AAA releases get put on this Switch. If you look at the biggest third party games of the last decade most have skipped switch besides Witcher 3, Doom, It takes 2 and more indie leaning hits.
Move those goal posts. It's mainly a handheld. Handhelds are not getting top AAA stuff. Not even Switch 2 will. It's not made for that. Yeah most AAA stuff skips it because of the hardware same will happen with Switch 2 but guess what. It's going to outsell PS2. So big fucking whoop no GTAVI or Madden. Big whoop.
Yes Switch is basically a handheld and its save to say it has the best support of any Nintendo system so far and its outpacing every other handhelds 3rd Party support overall! About outselling the PS2 we have to wait but after this numbers i am thinking of carefully upping my LTD prediction from 155 million LTD to 157 LTD till march 2027.
I don't think the semantics of what type of console it is matter. There are plenty of people for whom Switch is their only or most modern gaming platform and there is significant room for Nintendo to improve in 3rd party support and the S2 will be likely be doing that. We're talking mainline COD, Final Fantasy, Asssassins Creed... Honestly I think we'll be seeing a good 70% of big 3rd party releases finding their way to system within a year of launch.
Dunno, the SNES had most of the biggest/best games of the 4th generation and I think so did the NES, but outside of that I would agree.
GC has less overall than Switch although the titles it receive maybe felt more prolific like MSG Twin Snakes and RE4
I've never understood this mentality...
-Wii had a ridiculous number of 3rd party games, much more than GC (even if they sucked)
-Wii U had a ridiculous 3rd party line up DAY 1... which only dried up after sales tanked
-NS1 got nearly every 3rd party game that was capable of running on it...
People only remember GC support because of the relatively few notable 3rd party exclusives (RE series, Twin Snakes)... Thats it
What? Gamecube got horrible third party support. The last home console that got great third party support was Super Nintendo.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to agree with Leynos. And I'll cut GC even deeper: the GC had the lowest effort from third parties to support it of all of Nintendo's mainline handhelds and home consoles.
By the numbers, the GameCube had the second-lowest count of third-party games among all Nintendo home and handheld consoles. But while the N64 had fewer, those releases were nearly all tailor-made for the console, whereas the GC's were mostly quick and lazy PS2 ports, often cutting out content and features and even leaving in PS2 tutorial text (that's fucking lazy). Even the Wii U offered more despite being the other Nintendo console (in my estimation) whose third party support was mainly pointless PS ports. It wasn't without its third party games that took effort, but those were few and far between - aside from that handful, most of the GC third party games were very low effort.
But thinking specifically Switch vs GC - Where the GC was a Greek colony mimicking better Greek cities, the Nintendo Switch is the Roman Empire, comprising a myriad of cultures and cities.
Some interesting excited statements from EA.
Always a very good news from a new console to create excitement in the big third parties.
Oh hey, E.A finally realizes it should have been supporting the popular system.
....Took them long enough. How many 'below expectations' quarters did it have since the Switch launched by chance? I don't think we ever even got The Sims on the thing....
Literally every investor meeting EA is asked why they don't support NS1 and they always just stand there looking stupid lol
Dumb people really
Well, of course. FC sports sold less than the Fifa one's.
