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Progress had been minimal at best, and while we understood that it wasn’t really practical to replicate Xbox One and PS4 gameplay on the Switch, we pleaded with EA to step things up a gear and work quicker towards at least giving Switch players something that should have been possible: full feature parity with other systems. When FIFA 19 was released the following year, we moved on to the pain phase, along with anger and bargaining. Sure, the game was missing a lot of features that were present in other versions of FIFA, but EA had said that this was because they didn’t want to overwhelm Switch players with too many features at once, and while that claim stank more than Brendan Rodgers’ current season, we went along with it anyway. With the first game, FIFA 18, we were very much in the denial phase. If you read through our reviews of every FIFA game on Switch (all of which were handled by the same long-suffering reviewer), you’ll see a pretty clear example of the stages of the grieving process in action. What we’ve been getting since then is the video game equivalent of ‘80s comedy Weekend at Bernie’s, with EA propping up the corpse of FIFA 18 on a stick and jiggling it around in the hope that people will believe it’s still a living, breathing entity.
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People can harp on about the end of an era all they like, but as far as Nintendo players are concerned the FIFA series died half a decade ago. As the final game to carry the FIFA licence before EA parts ways with its partner of 30 years, most multiformat sites have been discussing FIFA 23’s importance as the finale of a long-running series, at least in terms of branding.įor Switch owners, however, this is old news. If you’ve been keeping tabs on EA’s hugely popular football franchise, you’ll have heard that FIFA 23 marks the end of an era. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)
