Fifa 21 (Switch) (Nintendo Switch)

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At first, we gave EA the benefit of the doubt and put it down to the challenges of porting a game to a less powerful system with a user base. The main all-digital event is scheduled to take place between 12th-15th of June, but not every publisher and developer is necessarily participating in the main show. I think what makes this more atrocious is it is being passed off as a sequel, even Nintendo doesn't do that. Their "Year In Numbers" for 2020 shows a pandemic-fuelled frenzy of video game spending, with a 21% increase in the value of the console market,. The inclusion of the Champions League and a significant graphical upgrade goes some way to approaching the levels of presentation found on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC version, but on the pitch it’s a mile away from being a premium football simulation and fails to build on last year’s game.

The Switch hasn’t even received the original versions of them yet, while other formats are declaring them outdated.Really, there is literally zero reason to own this version if you own other systems and/or don't care about the kit upgrades. They will fluctuate, and different people may put them up for cheaper, so it can be worth it to hold off for a better offer. The Directed Pass and Go is one of the biggest changes to FIFA 21's gameplay compared to previous iterations.

It’s estimated now that total Switch sales have overtaken those of the Xbox One, and that’s with a four-year head start taken into account. 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?

FIFA 20’s moment-to-moment gameplay remains, disappointingly, largely completely unchanged from last year’s under-par outing. This year Konami decided to focus most of its attention on working on the upcoming next-gen versions of PES, so it released a ‘Season Update’ (i. EA has never learned that their games would actually sell much better on Nintendo systems if they actually put money and quality effort into those versions of the games first, or they're just too scared to take that kind of moderate monetary risk. FIFA 21 Legacy Edition will feature an updated visual identity with a newly design in-game front end and menu screens.