{"id":118028,"date":"2020-09-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/fifa_21_costs_p45_on_switch_despite_being_another_legacy_reskin"},"modified":"2020-09-15T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T14:00:00","slug":"fifa-21-costs-45-on-switch-despite-being-another-legacy-reskin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/15\/fifa-21-costs-45-on-switch-despite-being-another-legacy-reskin\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA 21 Costs \u00a345 On Switch, Despite Being Another &#8216;Legacy&#8217; Reskin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e55f796ffcd04\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e55f796ffcd04\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Looks like Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 feels our pain, at least...\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e55f796ffcd04\/looks-like-kylian-mbappe-feels-our-pain-at-least.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e55f796ffcd04\/looks-like-kylian-mbappe-feels-our-pain-at-least.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Looks like Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 feels our pain, at least...\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Looks like Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 feels our pain, at least&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pre-orders for the digital version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_21\"><strong>FIFA 21<\/strong><\/a> on Nintendo Switch have now gone live, confirming that the game&#8217;s price will be set at \u00a344.99 on the eShop.<\/p>\n<p>For a brand new FIFA title, this pricing is pretty much what you&#8217;d expect, but Nintendo fans will no doubt feel like they&#8217;ve been brushed aside once again. As you may know, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/yep_the_new_fifa_game_for_nintendo_switch_will_be_another_legacy_edition\">FIFA 21 on Switch will be a &#8216;Legacy Edition&#8217;<\/a>, meaning that the game is essentially a rerelease of last year&#8217;s game with new team kits and updated team rosters.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture embed right img-\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"PS NSwitch Fifa21NintendoSwitchLegacyEdition EnGB\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/135d5a5ec4550\/ps-nswitch-fifa21nintendoswitchlegacyedition-engb.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/135d5a5ec4550\/ps-nswitch-fifa21nintendoswitchlegacyedition-engb.200x.jpg\" alt=\"PS NSwitch Fifa21NintendoSwitchLegacyEdition EnGB\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>FIFA 21 on Switch<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Indeed, the Switch eShop listing notes that FIFA 21 will include Kick Off, Career, Tournaments, Women&#8217;s International Cup, Skill Games, Online Seasons, Online Friendlies, and Local Seasons modes, but &#8220;with the same features from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_20\"><strong>FIFA 20<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; \u2013 which, don&#8217;t forget, was already a reskin of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_19\"><strong>FIFA 19<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think it&#8217;d be hard to justify selling the same game, running on the same engine with absolutely no new features, for such a high price, yet this is becoming common practice. We&#8217;re sure there&#8217;ll be plenty of Switch-owning footie fans who&#8217;ll take the hit for the new team rosters, but wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if \u2013 just for once \u2013 Nintendo and EA could release a new FIFA reskin at a discounted, DLC-like price as an upgrade to existing games?<\/p>\n<p>Are you happy to pay \u00a345 for a Legacy Edition FIFA? Do you feel like the asking price is too high for the content you&#8217;re receiving? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 feels our pain, at least&#8230; Pre-orders for the digital version of FIFA 21 on Nintendo Switch have now gone live, confirming that the game&#8217;s price will be set at \u00a344.99 on the eShop. For a brand new FIFA title, this pricing is pretty much what you&#8217;d expect, but Nintendo fans will [&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-118028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118028","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=118028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}