Need for Speed, Battlefield to Debut on PS5, Xbox Series S/X in 2021

Electronic Arts CEO and director Andrew Wilson (Andrew Wilson) revealed that the new “Need for Speed: Speed and Battlefield” game will be launched next year. On EA’s quarterly earnings conference call last week, Wilson stated that the gaming giant will release “at least six new models on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X in the next fiscal year (April 2021 to March 2022). game”. 

“Need for Speed”, “Battlefield” and “FIFA”. Although the “Battlefield” game has a “2021 holiday” release window, “Need for Speed” has a wider “FY ’22” game window, but given that all past games can be traced back to 2011, it is expected that it will be in 2021 Released around November 2015.

“We plan to launch at least six new games on next-generation consoles in fiscal year 22,” Wilson said on Thursday at Electronic Arts’ second quarter 2021 earnings conference call. “These will include a new Need for Speed game that will bring an amazing visual leap developed by the Criterion team, which has developed some of the most acclaimed games in franchise history.”

It is hopeful that Criterion Games will return to the Need for Speed after eight years, because the British developer known for “Burnout” used “Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit” in 2010 (this version was re-released last week to remake “Need for Speed” ) Responsible for the revival of the racing game series. PS4 and Xbox One). Criterion also came out in 2012’s “Need for Speed: Most Wanted”, but has since regressed in Sweden’s Ghost Games (now also known as EA Gothenburg and Engineering Support Studio) and developed four in the period from 2013 to 2019. A boring game.

The cooperation between Battlefield Games and Swedish developer EA DICE is stronger, because the studio has already delivered “Battlefield 1” based on World War I and “Battlefield 5” based on World War II. This game provides 10 extensions. EA CEO pointed out that DICE is already developing the next unreleased “Battlefield” game.

“DICE is creating our next Battlefield game on an unprecedented scale,” Wilson said. “The technological advancement of the new console has allowed the team to provide a true next-generation vision for the franchise. We are conducting hands-on game testing internally, and as we begin to interact with the community, the team has been getting very positive feedback in the game. Next “Battlefield” will be launched during the 2021 holiday, and we are happy to share more information about the game in the spring.”

New “Need for Speed” and “Battlefield” titles will be released at the end of 2021.

November 09, 2020