From Eurogamer:
Reading inbetween the lines here, it sounds like DICE has extra time to cook up Battlefield 6. Which is actually great news. But aside from that. If APEX is to continue being EA's main FPS, that also means that EA just confirmed next year isn't a Battlefront year either. And in confirming this, we may have seen the last of Battlefront from EA with 2017's Battlefront 2. (Unless of course they plan to outsource it, which i very much doubt.)
Could this be the beginning of the end of EA & Star Wars? Yes they have Fallen Order and the game that Motive "took over" from Visceral, but are EA preparing for life after Star Wars already? If DICE is hard at work on Battlefield for now, and up until at the latest March 2022, that doesn't leave any room for another Battlefront game from them. Their 10 year deal expires in 2023, and post-launch support for whatever that Battlefield game is, is likely to continue for at least 6 months past its release. I'm going to assume here that they will be back with a fall launch in 2021, and have at least post launch support for the game up until the end of the FY. Could DICE still release Battlefront 3 in Fall of 2022 or Spring of 2023, before the deal expires? Sure. But it doesn't at all seem likely to me. Even for Respawn, we know they have another "Titanfall universe" game coming after JFO, there's also support for APEX, as well as the inevitable Titanfall 3. Will they even have time to get Fallen Order 2 (if it is something that would happen) out before EOY 2023? We don't even know what Motive's game is or when it's coming out, to speculate on their follow up to it.
So what do you think? Are we seeing the beginning of the end of EA and Star Wars?
Reading inbetween the lines here, it sounds like DICE has extra time to cook up Battlefield 6. Which is actually great news. But aside from that. If APEX is to continue being EA's main FPS, that also means that EA just confirmed next year isn't a Battlefront year either. And in confirming this, we may have seen the last of Battlefront from EA with 2017's Battlefront 2. (Unless of course they plan to outsource it, which i very much doubt.)
Could this be the beginning of the end of EA & Star Wars? Yes they have Fallen Order and the game that Motive "took over" from Visceral, but are EA preparing for life after Star Wars already? If DICE is hard at work on Battlefield for now, and up until at the latest March 2022, that doesn't leave any room for another Battlefront game from them. Their 10 year deal expires in 2023, and post-launch support for whatever that Battlefield game is, is likely to continue for at least 6 months past its release. I'm going to assume here that they will be back with a fall launch in 2021, and have at least post launch support for the game up until the end of the FY. Could DICE still release Battlefront 3 in Fall of 2022 or Spring of 2023, before the deal expires? Sure. But it doesn't at all seem likely to me. Even for Respawn, we know they have another "Titanfall universe" game coming after JFO, there's also support for APEX, as well as the inevitable Titanfall 3. Will they even have time to get Fallen Order 2 (if it is something that would happen) out before EOY 2023? We don't even know what Motive's game is or when it's coming out, to speculate on their follow up to it.
So what do you think? Are we seeing the beginning of the end of EA and Star Wars?
