{"id":120912,"date":"2020-11-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/ea_ignores_nintendo_fans_yet_again_as_fifa_21_david_beckham_freebie_skips_switch"},"modified":"2020-11-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T12:00:00","slug":"ea-ignores-nintendo-fans-yet-again-as-fifa-21-david-beckham-freebie-skips-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/19\/ea-ignores-nintendo-fans-yet-again-as-fifa-21-david-beckham-freebie-skips-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"EA Ignores Nintendo Fans Yet Again As FIFA 21 David Beckham Freebie Skips Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cc27d09de743e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cc27d09de743e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>In frustratingly familiar news, EA has once again shown a depressing lack of commitment to its audience on Switch as the console misses out on a popular new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_21\">FIFA 21<\/a> treat.<\/p>\n<p>The company has unveiled that football legend David Beckham will be making a surprise appearance in the game&#8217;s FIFA Ultimate Team mode; fans who play the game by 15th January 2021 will be treated to &#8220;an untradeable, one-of-a-kind David Beckham Item&#8221; to add to their squad for free.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice touch for footie fans looking to boost their squad, but as you&#8217;ve probably guessed by now, the offer doesn&#8217;t apply to Switch. All other major consoles are good to go, but Nintendo fans \u2013 who are already having to deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_21\">watered-down rehashes of games gone by<\/a> \u2013 will miss out. Thanks to our very own football legend, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scully1888\/status\/1329156289377808385\">Chris Scullion<\/a> (well, <em>reviews legend<\/em>, at least) for spotting the news.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Here's what you could have won... If you played on a console EA can be bothered with.\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cc27d09de743e\/heres-what-you-could-have-won-if-you-played-on-a-console-ea-can-be-bothered-with.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cc27d09de743e\/heres-what-you-could-have-won-if-you-played-on-a-console-ea-can-be-bothered-with.original.jpg\" alt=\"Here's what you could have won... If you played on a console EA can be bothered with.\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Here&#8217;s what you could have won&#8230; If you played on a console EA can be bothered with.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No official reasoning for the skip has been provided, although we wouldn&#8217;t count on any truly legitimate reason being offered for anyone upset at missing out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh dear.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In frustratingly familiar news, EA has once again shown a depressing lack of commitment to its audience on Switch as the console misses out on a popular new FIFA 21 treat. The company has unveiled that football legend David Beckham will be making a surprise appearance in the game&#8217;s FIFA Ultimate Team mode; fans who [&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-120912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120912","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=120912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}