EA Has "No Plans" To Bring 'Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order' To Nintendo Switch

Earlier this month, developer Respawn Entertainment and publisher Electronic Arts announced Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a single-player, narrative-driven Star Wars game coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Upon revealing the game to the world, Respawn confirmed there would be microtransactions, no multiplayer, no Season Pass, and no DLC. Of course, some of this is subject to change, but for now, Respawn says it's focused on delivering a great, self-contained story.

That all said, what Respawn hasn't touched upon is whether or not a Nintendo Switch port is in the pipeline, and that's probably because there isn't one. According to Jay Ingram, a community manager specialist at EA, there's currently no plans for a Nintendo Switch port.

[Neonridr]

outside of the odd sports franchise, EA has never been a big supporter of Nintendo, so no surprise here.

[_SilverHawk_]

99.9% of third party games won't be on the Nintendo switch because it's not powerful enough to run them and the versions of the third party games that are a bit demanding on the hardware runs poorly and is severely downgraded.

[diepdiep]

You're exaggerating.

[King_Noctis]

I’d say 60% to 70% at most. But you are right, the Switch is a tad too weak to run most of those games.

[Neonridr]

Doom, Wolfenstein 2, Diablo 3, etc run poorly? Could have fooled me. They run great.

[Enigma_2099]

You forgot to add they're also too cheap to use the higher capacity cartridges.

[3-4-5]

The Appeal of the Switch and other Nintendo is their unique library of games you can only get on a Nintendo console/handheld. The downside is less 3rd party support from some larger devs, but if you have a Switch + either PS4 or XB1, you are covered.

[ZeekQuattro]

I hope they don't muck the game up. That's all I'm worried about.

[ziggurcat]

there was an article saying that on the PS store, it says MP optional, which could either be a blunder on Sony's part or they lied about there being no MP in the game.

[ZeekQuattro]

News to me. I'll have to look into that.

[PhantomS42]

Could just be on Sony like a general disclaimer but seeing as this is a Respawn/EA game I wouldn't be shocked at all if they lied. EA seems to be molding Respawn into their new lapdog since Bioware is at it's lowest point right now, despite Respawn only two games have been flops and them being a joke for caving to the Battle Royale fad.

[Mainman187]

Lol.

[Teflon02]

Well don't they use frostbite for 80% of games? Unless they go back to frostbite 2, don't really think it'll be worth the effort to try get something to run the same unless it's a big seller and will on switch. Someone big like apex Legend's would make sense

Think if EA every really supports switch it'll always be a late release. The switch support in general is probably about to crash next year or the year after since it'll be completely underpowered when the new consoles start dropping

[AK91]

I mean it runs on UE4 it’s a very low chance it’ll be on the Switch but it’s not impossible for it to happen.

[King_Noctis]

UE4 is not that difficult to make it run on the Switch in most cases. Heck, even Yoshi Crafted World was made in UE4.

[2pacalypsenow]

Well damn, then how are we supposed to get the best version then?

[King_Noctis]

You play on PC, as all of the third party games out there?