UPDATE: So, I forgot how financial years work. Because of reasons, Q3 FY 2017 is, in fact, holiday 2016, meaning those two games are one and the same - a new Battlefield game coming next year. That still leaves the question of what a "new Battlefield experience" actually is, so let'sไ pretend that was entirely my point in the first place.
ORIGINAL STORY: You may have seen some mention floating around toda👍y of a newly-confirmed Battlefield game, due for release next year. However, it looks as though EA already have plans for a 2017 follow-up, which CEO Andrew Wilson describes as a "new Battlefield🔜 experience".
During an EA investor call, the company CFO, Blake J. Jorgensen let slip that the company plans to have an FPS as a core title every year, with the hyper-popular war sim taking over fro𝄹m Star Wars: Battlefront next year:
"I do think what we have said is that our intention is to try over the next couple of years to have a first-person shooter as one of the core t꧒itles, this year obviously Star Wars Battlefront, next year another Battlefie🌺ld title."
The , however, shows Andrew Wilson describing some of EA's more far-flun♏g projects, where he seems to reveal another Battlefield game ent൩irely:
"Looking further ahead, we're preparing more new games for our players. The reaction to a first look at Mass Effect: Andromeda at E3 was incredibly positive. We have a new Battlefield experience coming in Q3 FY 2017 and another new Star Wars project being led by the dynamic creative team of Jade Raymond and Amy Hennig.𒀰 These are just a few of the new experiences in development across our studios today." (emphasis mine)
There's a chance that either Jorgensen, Wilson, or the transcript writer have made a mistake here, but it's certainly 𒁏not unheard-of for a company to have multiple games in the same franchise being developed simultaneously (hello, Assassin's Creed).
With DICE working on Mirror's Edge 2 and Battlefront, and Battlefield Hardline creators Visce๊ral now moving onto that Amy Hennig-fronted Star Wars project, it's unclear how work would be divided over the possible two games.
We've contacted EA for comment.
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