It was also announced that on its launch weekend, 5% of FIFA 22 sales in the UK were the Switch version, which is still a lot when you consider how many copies that is.įootball-mad, Switch-owning kids everywhere will be getting FIFA 22 for Christmas and realising it’s the same as the one they got last year. By that metric at this very moment – and granted, it won’t last for long – more people are buying FIFA 22 on Switch than any other game. At the time of writing, FIFA 22 is the number one top selling Switch game on Amazon UK. That isn’t hyperbole or guesswork on our part, either. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) People are buying this game, they deserve to have their loyalty rewarded with some sort of new feature, anything at all. Let them have their silky smooth animations, those show-offs.īut EA should have thrown us Switch owners a bone, and by that we don’t mean tying a string around the same bone, pulling it back and throwing it to us again the following year.
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If the snazzy new Hypermotion buzzword EA is pushing in its multi-million dollar TV ad can only be pulled off on a PS5 or Xbox Series X, that’s perfectly fine. We aren’t even unrealistic enough to expect that EA would somehow be able to bring the game up to speed with the next-gen versions. It was fun when it was FIFA 17 two console generations ago and time hasn’t rendered it unplayable all of a sudden. The annoying thing is that, as we’ve touched on every time we review FIFA on the Switch, the core game itself is still very good. The Career mode is now so prehistoric they could probably extract DNA from it and clone a raptor, while everything else has been left untouched for so many years we’re surprised EA didn’t add ‘dusty’ to its list of weather options. Of course, this complaint isn’t strictly limited to Ultimate Team, it’s the case across the board. The Switch hasn’t even received the original versions of them yet, while other formats are declaring them outdated. Have a glance at Ultimate Team on other systems, and you’ll see that players are getting revamped versions of the Division Rivals and FUT Champions modes. How could EA possibly expect players to care about a mode that hasn’t had a shred of work done to it in nearly half a decade? Ultimate Team hasn’t been changed in the slightest since the first FIFA game on the Switch (FIFA 18), with not a single extra mode or feature included in that time. Not that you can realistically get them in Ultimate Team now, of course, because the Switch version of Ultimate Team is such a ghost town that at the time of writing there were around 25,000 players and items being sold on its transfer market screen, versus 2.2 million on Xbox (and likely even more on PlayStation, given it usually sells more on those formats). The version of FIFA that FIFA 22 on Switch is based on is so old that Kaka, Pirlo and Totti were just normal players in it. Remember Kaka, Pirlo and Totti? They’re all in FIFA’s Ultimate Team mode these days as ‘Icons’, legendary players who have since retired but can be recruited as special additions to your squad. Let us put it another, more colourful way. The Switch version of FIFA 22 is essentially the Xbox 360 version of FIFA 17.
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But wait, that's not all! A drum roll, if you will.Īs we’ve stated in previous reviews, FIFA 19 was a barely improved version of FIFA 18, which itself was essentially a port of that year’s Xbox 360 and PS3 Legacy Editions.
What this means is that it’s basically the Switch version of FIFA 19, with the team squads and kits replaced. But at the end of the day, if EA isn’t willing to put any effort into FIFA on the Switch, why should we try to show it up? That would just be arrogant of us.įIFA 22 is the third Legacy Edition on Switch. Perhaps we should have put more effort into getting this intro right. It’s not trying to fool you at all, it’s being very up-front about what you’re getting.” “EA makes it perfectly clear that FIFA 22 on the Switch is a Legacy Edition. “Well, that’s not entirely fair, Nintendo Life,” we (maybe) hear you say.
With FIFA 22, EA is attempting to fool us thrice, and although we haven't been able to find any official ruling on what this means, we’ve come to the conclusion that it basically rolls back to “shame on you” again. “Fool me once,” the famous phrase goes, “shame on you.
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