More FIFA Games Likely to Come to Switch

Promising 3rd party support.

By Hope Corrigan

The supervising producer for FIFA Andrei Lazarescu has given a promising indication as to the series' future on the Nintendo Switch.

During an interview with GameSpot, Lazarescu said "I think we are going to see more FIFA on Switch in the future."

The producer went on to discuss single Joy-Con play and some of the challenges and benefits it can present.

"[When playing with one Joy-Con,] obviously you don't have the [right] stick, he said. "You don't have as many buttons, [and] you only have the two bumpers, instead of triggers and bumpers. We created a custom scheme for this, called Four Button Mode. The advantage of it, is that with just one console, you can play FIFA 1v1, without buying anything else."

Lazarescu also talked more about some of the changes in the Switch version of the game and limitations of using a different engine.

"The Journey is a mode powered by Frostbite [the engine that current-gen versions of the game run on], it only exists because of Frostbite--they are not separate. You can't just [put it on Switch] without taking the whole Frostbite engine. So because this doesn't have Frostbite, it doesn't have The Journey."

He did not rule out the idea that future Switch iterations might run on Frostbite, but said that "Frostbite is a very different beast". Despite these limitations, he believes that this is currently "the best portable FIFA we've ever done,"

FIFA 18 will release on Switch on September 29 and the success of this title may help determine which other EA titles we see on the console.

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