The Battlefield franchise didn’t play a lot of an element in EA’s monetary report, however that doesn’t imply it doesn’t have a future. EA CEO Andrew Wilson defined how the writer is taking a “lengthy view” of the franchise, however future funding and its progress is determined by what the crew manages to attain with Battlefield 2042.
The way forward for the Battlefield franchise
EA views Battlefield as “one of many nice franchises in our business” and so they’re not giving up on it that simply. As Wilson defined throughout EA’s earnings name, as transcribed by Searching for Alpha, the corporate is taking “a protracted view” on its future and it’ll “be a extremely necessary a part of our portfolio for a lot of, a few years to come back”. The Battlefield crew is now led by Vince Zampella and they’re “rethinking the event course of from the bottom up” to ensure gamers can “get to the enjoyable as shortly as doable,” one thing Zampella’s studio Respawn perfected with the Titanfall franchise.
Regardless of the poor reception of Battlefield 2042, the sport has since obtained hundreds of bug fixes and gameplay enhancements by means of a sequence of patches. The most recent of those lastly added the much-requested VoIP for Get together and Squads. Nevertheless, Wilson acknowledged there may be “nonetheless extra work for us to do there”. Till the sport will get to the purpose the place EA feels its core expertise and gameplay is “in the fitting place”, we’re unlikely to listen to a lot about any new content material. It’s solely as soon as that time is reached that gamers “count on us to take a position and develop past the place the sport is at right this moment”.
In different information, the PlayStation retailer has additionally began a Video games Below $15 promotion to go together with the sooner Prolonged Play sale. Elsewhere, Ubisoft has confirmed Cranium & Bones and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will nonetheless be launched through the present monetary yr.
