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Needless to say, EA has confirmed that its DICE studio is working on the next installment of the Battlefield franchise. The game will launch on PlayStation 5 and is set to roll out sometime in 2021, without the launch of the next-gen Holiday 2020 console. Does this mean the publisher won’t have anything ready for the PS5 release? It’s safe to assume you will have your usual list of sports titles, but we can now be sure that the Electronic Arts starting lineup won’t include a Battlefield title.
In a statement released to GameSpot, EA stated that the PS5 title “points to a new innovation that will be enabled by next-generation platforms.” This suggests that the launch will abandon the PlayStation 4 platform and will launch exclusively on PS5, Xbox Series X and PC, but that is speculation on our part.
What can be said with certainty is that EA is choosing to launch Battlefield in 2021 due to the small installation base that the two consoles will initially have. That despite the fact that Battlefield 4 was a launch title on PS4. “Taking out the battlefield [in 2020], where the new console base is quite small, it really doesn’t do justice to the potential of the title, and that’s part of our driver to move the title to Prosecutor 22. “
One of the most interesting questions that the launch of a new Battlefield title always raises is in what time frame it will be set. EA DICE has gone through the past two iterations in the past with Battlefield 1 and Battlefield V, so it may seem like it needs to turn things around. Could the franchise go back to the present day or even head into the future? Share what you think in the comments below.
