Well it sounds like their expectations were under 73k, no? Given that they're very satisfied at the current sales level.
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FIFA 18 Switch : 73k in France, EA very satisfied.
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73k physical sales on 911k consoles, so an attach rate of around 8% without digital. Fifa in France should be similar in popularity to the average popularity in Europe, so we could get a reasonable estimate if we assume the same 8% attach rate for Europe. Nintendo sold 4.8 million consoles in the US until the end of the year, so Europe should end up with atleast 4 million console sales, probably even more. That would put the lower bound for the estimate at 320k physical copies in Europe. Considering the ~70k sales in Japan, and assuming atleast okayish sales in the America and the rest of the world it should be around 500k physical at the end of 2017. Between digital sales and the upcoming World Cup a million copies seems very possible.
I would buy Dead Space 1 on Switch so fast the retailer would think it's robbery.
Opportunity cost, if EA are satisfied with the numbers then they will do another one.
If not they are not sweating for money on this franchise.
It sells 1million copies first weekend in U.K.
They made like 650 million dollars on Ultimate Team in 2017, the money they're making from the physical copies is nice but they don't think that's the future unfortunately. If they could charge 60 dollars to just update an evergreen game that has ultimate team, they definitely would.
As I predicted Fifa Switch would do fine worldwide when it's all said and done.
As the userbase increases, so does the market for mainstream games.
As the userbase increases, so does the market for mainstream games.
Yes I did. One digital for me and one pyhsical one that I gave a friend. Because why not. :)
i would call them laughably short sighted and incredibly greedy, but weird is nice too
Game has sold much better than some thought. Seems to have had some solid legs, at least in some regions. Would like to see World Wide figures.
FIFA 17 sold more than 1 million physical copies for PS4, the Xbox One version did 200.000+ in France. The ratio was between 5:1 - 6:1.
SELL (French Video Games Trade Association) should be sharing some current GFK data soon. Their annual report is usually do begin February.
plain incompetent at that too, the sims 4, plants vs zombies and madden would make bank on the switch
Good to hear. Had the feeling the Switch could develop a decent sports game audience but was worried they wouldn't be among the system's early adopters which would potentially scare publishers off. I doubt the system will ever win over the powerusers who bring EA a billion dollars on Ultimate Team alone annually, but considering how well the system is doing in NA specifically I wouldn't be surprised to see Madden or NHL get their own versions within the next year or two.
Konami are gonna look at these numbers and reliase that Pro-Evo can do respectable numbers on switch right?
I mean I can't see a switch version of Pro-Evo sell less than the Xbox one version worldwide
I mean I can't see a switch version of Pro-Evo sell less than the Xbox one version worldwide
That is not what I meant. In this case, imho, numbers doesn't mean much without context.
Thank you
It always surprises me that large companies like EA, that have been developing these games on so many different architectures and have what I assume are highly competent programmers at their disposal, aren't able to churn out a high quality product with lower production values. Obviously there are many factors at work, and the desire has to be there to make these types of games, and it seems with the success of the Switch this may become more palatable.
(And to clarify, when I say high quality, I mean in a case like FIFA, playing with friends is just there.)
I am very likely, incorrectly, assuming that if you can make a very technical, asset heavy game on PS4 and XboxOne, making a game for the Switch should be comparably easier; to a point.
I guess what I'm saying is, give me Xbox360 NHL09 with current teams and players packaged as NHL19. I know porting costs money, and maybe I'm the only person that would want it. And to be honest, NHL09 was the last NHL game I purchased, so it can totally be whatever final year edition made it out on the 360/PS3.
I just really want some hockey on my Switch. Sorry for the ramble.
(And to clarify, when I say high quality, I mean in a case like FIFA, playing with friends is just there.)
I am very likely, incorrectly, assuming that if you can make a very technical, asset heavy game on PS4 and XboxOne, making a game for the Switch should be comparably easier; to a point.
I guess what I'm saying is, give me Xbox360 NHL09 with current teams and players packaged as NHL19. I know porting costs money, and maybe I'm the only person that would want it. And to be honest, NHL09 was the last NHL game I purchased, so it can totally be whatever final year edition made it out on the 360/PS3.
I just really want some hockey on my Switch. Sorry for the ramble.
Ha, it looked pretty good that I would indeed want these and a Switch as well.
Has there been any word on if EA will continue to support and push FIFA 18 sales with a World Cup DLC for Switch
Last I heard is that the EA support will be unprecedented
Bummed that we won't get a fully-featured FIFA '19 like NBA 2K is fully featured.
If anything, I hope that the combination of this news and Bomberman's sales convince Konami to port PES over next year.
If anything, I hope that the combination of this news and Bomberman's sales convince Konami to port PES over next year.
Fifa 18 is the best amazon selling item in UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=sv_vg_h__0
It shows how price sensitive this market is. Probably lots of people double dipping.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=sv_vg_h__0
It shows how price sensitive this market is. Probably lots of people double dipping.
Hmmm £23 for portable FIFA... that is tempting...
Got too much to play ATM. I'll think about it more today, thanks for the information.
Unless this game sells well enough for EA to put Frostbite FIFA on Switch, Madden ain't coming
0 chance for cartoon models though as that would actually imply some work.
No story mode... possibly.
It will live or die by finally having online matches between friends or not.
Thought this was about France first...but UK ? Yeah thats impressive.
This is actually something that I feel will happen to a lot of games as time passes. My friends and i picked up like 4 copies of dragon ball xenoverse when we saw its price drop to $20 this last black friday. There's something about picking up a multiplayer game as a group and going to a friends house to all play around the tv.
Wow wtf. People weren't lying when they said UK is all about price indeed.
(well that and lots of Switches were sold in the UK over the holiday, so Zelda was charting high last month, and I guess people are now moving on to FIFA, but that would in turn mean it's getting high attach rates in the UK too)
You say that, but for some reason they made this:
EA is known to piss on people on Nintendo platforms for no reason. So i am very careful about the future of EA games.
It will be reflected next week (though we don't always have the split figures).
