{"id":10167,"date":"2018-01-12T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendos_french_boss_says_we_should_expect_more_switch_announcements_from_ea"},"modified":"2018-01-12T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:30:00","slug":"nintendos-french-boss-says-we-should-expect-more-switch-announcements-from-ea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/nintendos-french-boss-says-we-should-expect-more-switch-announcements-from-ea\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s French Boss Says We Should Expect More Switch Announcements From EA"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Getting worked up?\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendos_french_boss_says_we_should_expect_more_switch_announcements_from_ea\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendos_french_boss_says_we_should_expect_more_switch_announcements_from_ea\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Getting worked up?\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo France&#8217;s Managing Director\u00a0Philippe Lavou\u00e9 has taken part in an extensive interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesnumeriques.com\/loisirs\/switch-retrogaming-super-mario-zelda-l-incroyable-come-back-nintendo-a3491.html\">Les Num\u00e9riques<\/a> regarding topics such as the console&#8217;s performance in that region and the degree of third-party support for the machine.<\/p>\n<p>On the latter topic, Lavou\u00e9 reveals that third-party games accounted for 26 percent of total Switch software sales in France during 2017, with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_plus_rabbids_kingdom_battle\">Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle<\/a><\/strong> performing best with 150,000 copies sold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_18\">FIFA 18<\/a><\/strong> sold 73,000 physical copies in France but Lavou\u00e9 insists that it was simply a\u00a0&#8220;test case&#8221; for the publisher and that we should expect &#8220;more announcements on the Switch&#8221; in the future. Lavou\u00e9 says that EA is expected to &#8220;double down&#8221; this year thanks to the 2018 World Cup, and the Switch&#8217;s portability will be instrumental in pushing the FIFA brand.<\/p>\n<p>While many of us will have been anticipating at least one more FIFA on Switch &#8211; if not a yearly release for the lifespan of the console &#8211; it will be interesting to see which other titles the publisher plans to bring to the machine. The robust sales of Switch won&#8217;t have been lost on EA, nor will the fact that some of its rivals are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/dragon_ball_xenoverse_2_sells_500000_copies_worldwide_on_nintendo_switch\">profiting handsomely<\/a> for supporting Nintendo&#8217;s machine early.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What EA games would you like to see come to Switch? Let us know with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo France&#8217;s Managing Director\u00a0Philippe Lavou\u00e9 has taken part in an extensive interview with\u00a0Les Num\u00e9riques regarding topics such as the console&#8217;s performance in that region and the degree of third-party support for the machine. On the latter topic, Lavou\u00e9 reveals that third-party games accounted for 26 percent of total Switch software sales in France during 2017, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}