According to chief studios officer Laura Mielem, in an interview with Game Informer, EA is looking to add more Switch games to its portfolio.
Miele said:
“Yes. We invested with FIFA. We had good success there. I love that we have such a great global reach and global presence on that platform with that game. We are absolutely looking at more Switch games in our portfolio, so more to come on that. We’re not going to announce anything as of yet. But it is absolutely a platform we’re looking at for some of our more successful games.”
This news is somewhat strange since during an investor call late last month, CEO Andrew Wilson didn’t seem overly enthusiastic about supporting Switch when asked if The Sims would make an appearance on the platform.
He said at the time: “We have a lot of data that would suggest a great many Switch owners also own a PlayStation 4 or an Xbox One or a PC and very often choose to play the games that we make on those platforms even though they have a Switch and they enjoy a lot of great content on the Switch.”
What do you make of all this?