EA confirmed Burnout Paradise Remastered today. The game will be available for Xbox One and Playstation 4 on March 16th, but not for the Nintendo Switch. There was no Switch version announced, but Polygon did contact EA to learn more. An EA representative told Polygon that “as for Switch, we have nothing to announce there”. The representative didn’t say anything more about the matter.
EA On A Switch Release Of Burnout Paradise Remastered: “We Have Nothing To Announce There”
Why is something considered news if there’s no news?
It’s confirmation. It’s as news as it’s gonna get.
That, and it is an official statement from EA addressing a question that people had about the game. Which is important.
And it’s cool. Nothing from EA is better than anything great from them…which doesn’t exist anymore.
Good, keep EA off the Switch as much as possible
I’ll say. I don’t wanna see another gimped, overpriced gambling with “EA” on it ever again.
I’d actually enjoy Burnout Paradise on the Switch. I think it would be perfect, really.
But alas, EA still insists on being pricks towards the Switch and how fucking stupid because they’re neglecting the big console money maker at the moment so they’re not only selfish but beyond retarded on where it mostly counts. If XB360/PS3 can run this game at decent resolution at 60FPS, the Switch can push the performance a bit more and still sustain 60FPS.
Figures and that’s cool. Keep their trash off my platform. We deserve better and rich quality than their gambling baiting garbage.
Say a thing like that seems more like “yes, but we can’t say now”. Because is much more simples say never, or, like all other “we are considering(same that never)”.
Honestly, at this point I don’t see us getting any more games from EA outside of small indie titles like Fe
EA is trash. Thank god for their lack of support. It deserves to burn.
As much as I hate EA’s business practice the fact they for some reason they don’t want money in the Nintendo Department (which is now a huge thing) is just so stupid
It’s EA, they are stupid by nature and it’s not like we want their shit anyway. Best to keep their cancer far away from our system.
F**k EA!
Fuck EA. Those slimy microtransactions cock suckers. EA is honestly the worst gaming company I have ever seen in this industry.
EA is cancer to the industry much like Xbox. Funny how those two companies are so in bed with each other.
Oh box is beyond the least of our worries. Mobile is cancer but EA are the devils of gaming.
This remake is so gonna have Microtransactions. You heard it here folks.
It’s not a remake, it’s a remaster. Same game plus DLC from last gen in 4K. Still wish it was on Switch though.
Dont care, not interested.
#FuckEA
who do i contact at EA to say they are stupid an ignorant of the amount of money they would have gotten had they released on switch vs any other platform? because it’s the truth.
Bethesda gave us Doom and is bringing Wolfenstein 2 to the switch!
Are you fucking with me EA? YOU CANT PORT A LOWER RES VERSION OF ONE OF MY FAVOURITE RACING GAMES, WHICH WILL DEFINITELY SEE A PROFIT IN COMPARISON TO FIFA AND FE!! I swear I’m sick of announcements for games like this, and no mention of switch.
Oh and fuck EA
Depending on how well Doom, Skyrim and Wolfenstein performed saleswise, we will still have to see whether Bethesda isn’t moving away from Switch. EA was just as ambitious back on the WiiU.
To be fair, Bethesda has better cards and their offering is way more attractive, but still, could still be that it’s not really enough. It’s not enough if people just like it when Wolfenstein and Doom are being released. They also have to buy these games with real money.
My point was, that they still ported them to switch.
EA has brought a decent FIFA to the switch YES. But i live in the UK where a strong percentage of people buy the complete Fifa experience usually on Playstation. Even europe in itself has a very Strong Fifa presence on consoles such as PS4 or XBone. That market might be there for Fifa on switch with the volume of switches being sold but in comparison to the other two it surely hasn’t sold the even half as well, granted the PS4 and XBone have the complete version of the Game.
Now taking a look at Burnout Paradise
fig 1) A game Wii owners missed out on. (fanboys can jump on)
fig 2) Apart from slight graphical issues; the same game all consoles.
fig 3) A more competitive market, can easily see it grossing as well on Switch as all other consoles or possibly by small chance even better. ( 15Million switches out there already, i also doubt this remaster will ever hit 15million on all 3 consoles ) having it on switch equals more money to be made.
All of this typing essentially equates to me just wanting the damn game on Switch, i would love this game on my desired platform. And not hearing it be mentioned at all is a fucking bummer.
Need for Speed Most Wanted U on the WiiU was the definitive version of one of the last good Need for Speed games. I think I enjoyed it at least as much as Burnout Paradise. Still MWU sold so laughably bad, that I can imagine that EA spokesperson had a laugh first, when being asked about releasing any racing game in the next century for a Nintendo console. When MWU launched, there actually was an install base there, the WiiU had … let’s say more momentum than in the years to come, so it should have sold at least something and it even looked and ran better than the PS3 version. Still nada.
Still, I hope it comes. It would be a great fit.
If I remember correctly, there was no eshop digital version of the game, and retailers got no stock.
It was delayed to oblivion and at the time of the release there was absolutely zero marketing for it.
Sure it was a decent port, I had to to order it from origin store to get it..
At least the delayed to oblivion can’t be true as I was playing this game by march 2013 on my Switch. And I remember a maybe small but still existing campaign promoting the game’s Gamepad-features where a father could help a son playing the game. OK, it was a completely laughable feature to be honest, but the game was definitely there.
About the stock I don’t know though, could be, but I guess that also might have to do with the demand. It was just kinda sad, as Criterion did a really good job there and the sales were so insanely bad, none of the points you mentioned could really completely explain them to a EA strategist (nor to me tbh ;) )
There are definitely more legit explanations why Fifa sold bad on the Switch or Mass Effect 3 on the WiiU (while METrilogy was sold cheaper for other consoles, ouch), but MWU just missed its audience by a lightyear it seems to me.
That’s right, I think it was originally supposed to be closer to launch, somehow I do remember 6 month delay on it’s release from original launch window.
Wii U was all kinds of mess from marketing to miscommunication.
About the only difference between Wii U and Switch, is that Nintendo had its games ready and marketed accordingly.
Wii U was done before Nintendo started to get their games to the system.
EA still thinks they’re indispensable for survival of Nintendo.
Probably EA is glamouring to enter the console race if competition gets scarcer, but they would have better luck on dropping MS than Nintendo.
Good thing I can live without EA games, especially what they have become as of late.
I was waiting for Bad Company 3, but they would just fuck it up like they do every 3rd sequel they vomit out and murder the single player campaign in favor of multiplayer lootboxtravaganza.
I agree especially on what EA really became in recent years. ppl hated them a lot before, but after what they did to Mass Effect and Battlefront, they really became the Nestlé of videogames, just a company I can happily live without.
EA probably had more social studies graduates than programmers working on ME Andromeda.
It was pretty funny that original Battlefront 2 received sales boost on steam.
Have not played it on ages, I do remember it was fun, and playing EA’s Battlefront on beta was not.
EA continues to burn what little is left of their bridges with Nintendo fans. I actually don’t think their stuff will ever do well on a Nintendo platform anymore just because they show so little support. Their own fault of course.