Rumour: Frostbite Engine Support For Nintendo Switch Seemingly Reconfirmed

Still won't be as good as Sega Soccer Slam...

I'm pretty sure it wasn't a situation of whether or not the engine was compatible with the Switch but rather whether they were bothered with working on having it running on the platform. Obviously the success of the Switch has made them reconsider actually giving a damm

Gonna get some Henry Hatsworth?

NHL hockey please! Maybe a Madden as well.

Fingers crossed we see some support from EA going forward. Still holding out hope for Madden on Switch.

@Spoony_Tech
Hockey would be cool. I don’t have a clue what the rules in hockey are but I know hockey video games are fun.

I’m actually more interested in 7th generation ports than anything from this generation from EA.

I'd love a new Fight Night but it seems EA have abandoned that series in favour of UFC. Fight Night Round 2 on the GameCube was superb and the last decent boxing game I ever played.

EA: "Yeah, but can we plug games full of microtransactions on Switch? That's the IMPORTANT thing."

What's sad is that if they hadn't gutted PopCap so, their output would make for perfect Switch material. Would love to play me some Plants vs. Zombies or Zuma on it.

After all these years of brown nosing Nintendo,Doctre still uses that cringy, amateurish and terrible intro.

Could EA finally be learning? Naw, but one thing you can count on is greed. So their greed might finally motivate them to push more products onto the Switch.

But all I want from EA is the Mass Effect Trilogy.

Plants vs Zombies confirmed!

Games I'd love to see from EA on Switch but have little chance of happening.

Road Rash 4
Jungle Strike 2
NHL 94 Online
Fight Night
Grandslam Tennis
PGA Tour

EA is a group of liars and they cannot be trusted.

Madden someday. Hopefully.

Anthem and Sea of Solitude are the only games I care about EA right now (Unless they announce TitanFall3)

One has zero hope it can run on Switch. The other is not on Frostbite - so should have been in the E3 reveal if Switch was getting it.

As usual, EA is late to the party just like Capcom, both have not ported their engine yet.
On the EA games side, for me, there is nothing interesting that they relesead in the past couple of years so unless they bring some classics they can still be in away from the console.

Frostbite 3.0 DID run on the X360 and PS3, so I’m not at all surprised there’s at least rumors

"What games from EA would you like on the platform? "

THE SIMS 4 on Nintendo Switch !!!
Just only that for me.

I really can't say that I care. Hopefully they'll allow other publishers/developers to use their engine, because I'm not buying anything from EA. They're sitting on my blacklist with Blizzard Activision, Ubisoft, and most recently, Bethesda. Tired of these big publishers destroying the third party AAA industry with their greed and buggy, unfinished "live services".

Hopefully these guys turn around because there are plenty of franchises under their belt that I enjoy, but simply won't support when they push further and further to devalue their games and stuff microtransactions into every nook and cranny.

I wouldn’t spend a penny on ea’s garbage

How does Doctre not have more subscribers? I don't really rate many Youtubers (especially the ones that just read websites lol)

...The frost bite engine ran on ps3 and 360. Pretty sure the Switch can handle that EA.

Yay now we can buy predatory microtransactions... but on the go! 2019 gaming is a lovely thing.

Knowing EA.. they'll put games on Google Box and Atari box before Nintendo... then again, they ruin all my childhood PC companies...RIP Origin Systems and The Privateer series.. Oh and they Ruined an easy homerun with the SW Battlefront games. No soul just Reskin that Battlefield and collect cash.. what a disappointment.

@Spudtendo you know Nintendo needs at least some third party stuff right? We can’t just wipe out all of them.

And Blizzard, Bethesda and Ubisoft have already delivered some gems on Switch (Diablo 3, Skyrim and Mario vs Rabbids Kingdom Battle).

I don’t like a lot of practices of some of the big third parties, that’s for sure, but the more “AAA” games the better for all of us.

@GrailUK Yeah Those web page regurgitators who highlight chunks of text in yellow and read them out in a very serious tone of voice... Usually with a clip of Anthem or Destiny 2 running in the background. If you trim out the bit where they read out articles each episode would be two minutes long. VerySeriousGamingNews.com - it's either them or the facial expression thumbnail crew and very little in between.

Edit: to add to that I've started to go off a lot of Youtube gaming sites as they seem to spend all their time crying about ports and online. It's not that serious.

Can't see the point, outside of future Fifa games. Their multiplayer /live service games wouldn't work - or would be impractical - due to power or internet limitations anyway. And they have canceled every single player game in existence.

Gonna go with no. Frostbite is mainly DICE's baby. They maintain the source. While external devs are using and even modifying frostbite, they aren't likely to be spending time porting it to switch.

Its more likely this is an engineer who has been working on porting older projects. I'd expect to see burn out paradise or dead space anthology collection before we see a modern frostbite game running on the system. There are older versions of frostbite that were running on last gen hardware. Which is likely what Andrei was referring too. So you'll see what is basically what ubisoft is doing with old anvil Wii u games.

Upside we could see Mass Effect trilogy being ported to switch with HD remaster for ps4 and xb1. Maybe even some last gen dragon age or Kotor. I'd love a dead space collection. Downside, don't count your chickens that madden, FIFA, or battlefield v, star wars battlefront, or any other title will find its way to switch. Switch lacks the performance across the board to render these games or in battlefield and battlefronts case deal with the sim, due to memory and hampered CPU performance.

AAA games?
YES, PLEASE!

We already have 1000+ garbage/indie games on the platform.
Now that it has a profitably high user install base, let the real, big, serious games come!

Hopefully not just EA but other publishers take note, too. There are hundreds of great games/series which would be fun to play on the go.
If EA started publishing their titles on the Switch, that would mean it has definitely a profit in it.

So, go EA!

I'll only go back to EA if they remake the 'Ty The Tasmanian Tiger' trilogy similar to Spyro and Crash, with Frostbite for realistic boomerang breaking action and bring it to Switch

If they do actually come out with a new engine, do i need to buy a new nintendo switch console then?

@NotSoCryptic
Are you comparing Fifa with Battlefield? Also, Mass Effect does not run on Frostbite, you are not making any sense.

@Perryg92 It's not really up to EA thankfully, Krome Studios fully own the Ty IP, and they have actually stated they want to bring Ty 1, 2 and 3 to the Switch after remastering them for Steam, i really hope they do as i loved the first game but never played the sequels

I do think it would've been a bit silly for them to NOT have worked on a Switch-specific version of Frostbite.

But there really isn't any point in making public announcements of middleware tools being functional. Just gets the hopes up for players, when there might not actually be any games using the technology scheduled for release.

@geox30
Adromeda does, but.. b- snicker , seriously, I me- prrfft I mean, that ga-hehe.. Hahaha.

@Pod @geox30

While the pathetic internet hate bandwagon has made everyone believe otherwise, Andromeda is an awesome game. Certainly after a year of patches. It still has flaws, but it is epic. Would be great to see it make its way to Switch. I'd double dip.

@Sculptor

I do apologize for making it the butt of a joke, it certainly has its merits in spades. I am personally not a big Mass Effect fan after trying the original trilogy, and a bit of time with Andromeda didn't win me over.

It's grand, the environments are gorgeous, and it plays fluently, but for as much as the characters and their stories are in focus, the script and acting sure has its rough edges, even after all the patches.

I wish I could decide for it to not bother me, but I can't.

@Toadie Same! I've only played Ty 1. Never tried the sequels but would really like to.
Good to know that Krome own the rights and have an active interest in the Switch.
Otherwise EA would somehow figure out a way to shoehorn in micro transactions: lootboxes to get boomerangs etc.

@Pod
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind you joking about it or not liking it - of course it's not everyone's cup of tea.
I just felt like giving it some due credit seeing how it got bashed way more than it ever deserved to be. Which was basically caused by unpolished animations, and those are not even a problem anymore. xP

But yeah, it still has a lot of rough edges tbh. Though there's so much to love for fans of the genre/franchise that they are easily outweighed. Would be a cool addition for Switch if they could get it to run.

@OorWullie You forgot Burnout Paradise remastered

@Heavyarms55 For me it's Burnout Paradise remastered.

When it comes to EA, the top news I want to hear is that they’ve lost the Star Wars video game publishing licence and Disney finally do the right/smart thing and handle the publishing in-house, like Marvel does and seek out good games developers to make their games.

MIRRORS EDGE CATALYST!!!!!

Yeah baby

@PixelTavern This isn't a matter of "power".

I just want madden on the switch

@Tirza I know, its a matter of Money for EA XD

EA's holding out made a little sense on platforms like Dreamcast where the install base was very low to begin with and they were burned out by Sega's bad business decisions. But EA would continue to look foolish to not try something on a red hot console that has sold over 30 million in under two years.

Regardless of how I personally feel about EA, having a Madden or more on the Switch alongside the other platforms would be a good thing, much like how having Mortal Kombat 11 releasing along with their PS4/Xbox One counterparts is viewed as a good thing. There are a number of more casual EA games that I think would do extremely well on Switch (Frostbite or not), like The Sims 4 and Peggle.

I googled frostbite games and nothing on the list is remotely appealing to me but I'm sure a lot of people would enjoy their sports games.

There are a lot of EA games I would buy, just that none of them seem to use the frostbite engine.

@Kienda

That's subjective. Assassin's Creed Odyssey has been devalued with an in-game micro transaction store and a slow progression curve to tempt people to buy their exp boost. Black Ops 4 is a full-priced game that Activision thinks it can monetize like Fortnite, but it's even worse.

I said previously that those companies do have great games under their belt like Diablo, but those games are the minority and I don't want to support their shoddy business practices. There are too many fantastic indie studios and other third party guys like CD Projekt for me to settle for the 50th Assassin's Creed. Indie games are doing fantastically on the Switch, and that's all I really need when I'm not playing Nintendo games.

EA is probably too scared to put any non casual games on the Switch because they still think only kids and grandparents buy Nintendo systems.

@Sculptor

Andromeda is the worst in the series and is severely outclassed by every single Mass Effect game before it. I own it on PC, I'm a huge ME fan. It's the last EA-published franchise I cared about. This has nothing to do with a bandwagon, I stayed away from reviews and discussions about the game until I finished it. It's mediocre. Not terrible, but a far cry from the original trilogy. You know what's more annoying than a bunch of people agreeing on something? The minority of people who disagree telling them that their opinion is invalid because they're just trying to be a part of a bandwagon. There's a reason it was so heavily criticized. Andromeda had a lot to live up to, and it failed.

@geox30 you may want to reread what I wrote. I was not making any comparison between fifa or any other projects. I also said nothing about mass effect being a frostbite project. The engineer in question may work for ea, but it doesn't mean he works on frostbite or on frostbite 100% of the time. If he specializes in porting he most likely works on older projects. I listed several non frostbite games outside of mass effect. That should have made that point clear after I said it was DICE tech. This guy does not work at DICE. as I said it's not uncommon for someone from say ea tiburon to work and help with dices engine, porting for a specific game really falls in dice's court, it's their engine.

Basically do not get your hopes up, any non switch game in the last 15 years could be getting an anthology release to test the waters. Given that we are two years in and there are no projects in production for switch, I doubt we will see anything from the last 5 years or in the next 3 release from ea that isn't a remaster collection.

Based on that titles like mass effect, dead space, and others which use engines that need porting to switch are very much a reality based on this information. Since EA hasn't always used frostbite for all projects and those projects need core tech engineers to get old tech running on new machines. Not a bad thing , I'd love to see the mass effect trilogy get its due on switch. I'm sure a lot of gamers that missed on this older games from ea's better years see release for play on the go.

@Sculptor
Oh absolutely.
I might even give it an extra chance just to satisfy my curiosity for how far the technical achievement went.
The reason I replied to that discussion in the first place was from looking through the Frostbite games list, and realizing that ME:A was the only game on there I had any interest in at all.

@CarsonCool I've never actually played a Burnout game but yep, I'd love to have that on Switch.

No thank you EA. Keep your cancerous predatory microtransactions to yourself. The Switch doesn’t need your trash with all of your loot boxes, and card pack gambling in your sports games.

Don't care. EA is dead to me.

@construx Real AAA games from EA? Anything from EA these days is garbage. Hot garbage.

Don't like indie games? Fine. Not all of them are my cup of tea, but there are some pretty damn good ones on the Switch: Golf Story, Dead Cells, Broforce, Celeste and so many more. If it wasn't for the Switch, I would have never played these games on my PS4 or Xbox One.

I honestly couldn't care less. This flip-flop with EA for the past few console generations is stupid, to say the least, and considering the "positive" outcome is EA being able to put lootbox gambling in more kids hands, I kinda wish they'd just go away.

@bluemage1989 madden on the switfch will bring me back to the series stop playint like 4 years ago

@Spoony_Tech I'm Canadian, I would sh*t a puck if the NHL series made it to switch.

@Karatecanine I'd pay EA to make the happen lol! 😛

@progx All EA have produced over the last couple of years is stinker after stinker, aimed at getting as much money out of you as possible. I'm glad to see their practices are starting to bite them in the rear quite hard right now.