FIFA 18’s best new feature is the Nintendo Switch version
There are 7.37 million more pixels on a 4K TV than a Nintendo Switch screen, but does that make it the better canvas for playing a game of soccer? Not necessarily, according to EA. For the first time in five years, since the first and only title for the ill-fated Wii U, EA is putting out its flagship FIFA game on a Nintendo home console system alongside the PlayStation and Xbox versions.
“I wouldn’t compare [the Switch version to the others] — it’s different,” producer Andrei Lazarescu told me recently. Lazarescu is an amiable Romanian leading FIFA development at EA’s studio in Bucharest, which splits work with the team in Vancouver. “These are two FIFA games standing on their own two feet — they are different experiences on different…
