The consoles are quite powerful machines.
The PS5 is roughly a 2070 and the XSX is roughly a 2080.
Looking at the Steam Hardware profile list the average PC used for gaming is well below those cards, with the majority using 1050Ti's which is well below a PS5.
Also people are comparing FIFA to BF, why?
BF is a completely different game and the people who tend to play that on PC will be using at least 2060's.
Not everyone owns a 3080 and a Ryzen 7.
The decision to not run the next gen version sucks, but I do understand their excuse.
Why am I comparing them? Because when they say the care about people being able to play to the game, ¿how do you explain that they release one game next-gen and others not? You are right that games/segments are different and probably users specs too.
But they tell that in a sense of
"ok guys, if everyone can't play it in Ultra mode, then we will release the old gen version". ¿Do you think every Battlefield user has a RTX 3080 to run it maxed-out? No. So, basically they are showing us that that "they care about players"...in some cases.
These are the most used GPUs in Steam in June:
You're right that most of them are well below PS5 power. But is more than enough to run a non-graphic intensive game like FIFA, in every setting.
Look how a 1050Ti's runs FIFA 21 in Ultra ranging between 75 / 100 FPS
Are you serious??
Just because consoles have that power that doesn't mean that fifa or any other sports game uses it.
I highly doubt that next year or year after when EA will release their shity "next gen" games on PC it will require anything more than 2060 for the absolute MAX settings for 1080p (which according to Steam is still the most popular resolution), but I am pretty sure that even 1660 or 1050 ti would be enough!
For god sake, NBA2k21 that looks 1000 times better than FIFA probably will ever look only requires gtx 770 as their recommended gpu!!
Exactly
It has nothing to do with technical specs: it's just a simple business decision.
* FIFA 21 players in PC are probably closer to 8% or 10% of the amount of players in PlayStation
Steam peak: 43K players (let's multiply that x5 because many players bought it in Origin: 200K players in PC)
I read somewhere that PlayStation 5 has 3 millions players (I can't remember the source)
* Hence, FUT Market in consoles is bigger (FUT coins are a billionaire market). I couldn't find any actual stats about this and I haven't played it in PlayStation, but I read a user in Reddit who wrote that the amount of listings in transfers markets are 8x to 10x bigger in consoles
* I totally understand why they didn't release a FIFA 21 PC next-gen version, because the PC version was released 2 or 3 months before PlayStation 5 / Xbox Series launches, and that would have killed a little of the hype of playing something next-gen in the new consoles (and impact the sales)
* Fun fact:
PlayStation 4 sold 115 millions of consoles and
PlayStation 5 roughly 9 millions
They care about most of PC players are using a 1060 but they don't care to deliver a next-gen version to their biggest current base players that is the PlayStation 4. ¿Why? Because they want them to switch to next-gen consoles (this explains why you can get a next-gen version after buying FIFA 22 for PS4 / Xbox One)
Unfortunately, the PC fan base is paltry in comparison to other platforms
Hope you don't mind 
