{"id":94801,"date":"2019-06-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/future_versions_of_fifa_on_switch_could_be_legacy_editions_just_like_fifa_20"},"modified":"2019-06-09T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T08:00:00","slug":"future-versions-of-fifa-on-switch-could-be-legacy-editions-just-like-fifa-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/09\/future-versions-of-fifa-on-switch-could-be-legacy-editions-just-like-fifa-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Versions Of FIFA On Switch Could Be Legacy Editions, Just Like FIFA 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4fd3d837edd88\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4fd3d837edd88\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/future_versions_of_fifa_on_switch_could_be_legacy_editions_just_like_fifa_20\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9E4HMgh7ZsE?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>EA has revealed that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_20\">FIFA 20<\/a><\/strong> is coming to Switch, but not in the form fans will have been hoping for &#8211; and this could be the case moving forward on the console, too.<\/p>\n<p>The company has just lifted the lid on this year&#8217;s edition of its insanely popular football sim, and while the PS4, Xbox One and PC are getting the full-fat version \u2013 complete with a <strong>FIFA Street<\/strong>-style Volta Football mode \u2013 the Switch is getting a &#8220;Legacy Edition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That means while FIFA 20 on Switch will benefit from updated rosters and kits, it will basically be the same game as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_19\">FIFA 19<\/a><\/strong> and will lack any new gameplay content, such as the aforementioned Volta mode. Last year&#8217;s versions of FIFA 19 on the PS3 and Xbox 360 were Legacy Editions.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you will long memories will recall that EA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2012\/10\/ea_attempts_to_justify_selling_last_years_fifa_as_a_new_game\">pulled the same trick on the Wii<\/a> a while back.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the decision with <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2019-06-09-ea-explains-fifa-2020s-legacy-version-for-nintendo-switch\">Eurogamer<\/a>, FIFA 20 executive producer Aaron McHardy said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;re gonna get a fresh new look in Switch, with kits and player lists and all of that, but you&#8217;re not going to be getting Volta or any of the big new features.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When quizzed on whether this is the end of feature parity for Switch players, McHardy added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t say it&#8217;s the end [of parity], necessarily for Switch, we don&#8217;t know what the future holds. We&#8217;re always trying to build Switch to the device, and make it the best we can with the power that&#8217;s on that device that was given to us, and I think that philosophy will stay true. Where it goes in the future, we don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time of writing, it would seem some retailers &#8211; such as Game and Amazon &#8211; plan to sell the Switch version of FIFA 20 for around \u00a310 less than its PS4 and Xbox One siblings in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9E4HMgh7ZsE?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] EA has revealed that FIFA 20 is coming to Switch, but not in the form fans will have been hoping for &#8211; and this could be the case moving forward on the console, too. The company has just lifted the lid on this year&#8217;s edition of its insanely popular football sim, and while [&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-94801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94801","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=94801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}