EA reiterates that it has a ‘major game’ coming to Nintendo’s Switch

Nintendo’s unprecedented relationship with EA has had its up and downs over the years, over the past half decade its been mostly down but let’s be positive.

Speaking at whatever a Credit Suisse 2016 Annual Technology Conference is, Electronic Arts Chief Competition Officer Peter Moore had some more nice things to say about Nintendo and Switch.

Nintendo has always been and will always be an very important partner in this industry. They have some of the best first party development studios in the world, and some of the most valuable intellectual properties in the world. We have announced publicly that we got a partnership with them on their new platform, the Switch, we haven’t talked in detail on what’s that about. You can imagine, as you heard, that a major game will be distributed on that platform.

We’re huge fans. We have a relationship that goes many decades back. They’ve had some difficult times as if recently obviously, but never, ever, ever discount Nintendo in this marketplace, and their ability to leverage their superb game development opportunities. Their intellectual properties, whether it’s Mario, whether it’s Zelda, whether it’s Metroid Prime, we could go on forever about what they can do… obviously Pokémon, we’ve seen more recently.

We’re gonna watch with interest and you can rest assured that EA, just like every major publisher, is in regular conversations with Nintendo.

So a ‘major game’ sounds nice, but is that it – does EA’s support on the Switch going forward rely on the success of that one game? Even the Wii U had more than one game at launch.

Looks like we’ll just have to wait and see what happens in January.

Via Dualshockers