EA Delays New Need for Speed, Shifts Criterion to Support Battlefield 6 | NFS 2021 News (2021)
881Electronic Arts will postpone the next Need for Speed game by a year and put its studio — Criterion Games — to work supporting EA DICE on the Battlefield series, which will debut on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X this fall. In an interview, EA’s top executive for studios stressed that neither franchise is in trouble, nor is Criterion being taken off its Need for Speed project.
Laura Miele, EA’s chief studio's officer, told Polygon that pandemic working conditions, and the Codemasters acquisition already delivering at least one racing game for EA later this year, made reassigning Criterion a rational call.
“[Battlefield] is shaping up great, the team has been working incredibly hard, they pushed hard last year, and yes, we have been working from home,” Miele told Polygon. “And it’s hard; it’s hard to make games from home, and the [EA DICE] team is fatigued a bit.
“We have a great game and some incredible potential with this game,” Miele added. “We’re playing to win; we’re playing to put a great Battlefield game out in the market.”
Electronic Arts told investors in November that Need for Speed and Battlefield would both get new games, on the newest generation of consoles, by March 2022. Battlefield’s next game, which hasn’t been titled yet, was first mentioned (in a call with investors) back in 2019. The most recent Battlefield was 2018’s Battlefield 5, set in World War II.
A year ago, EA sent the Need for Speed series back to Criterion after three lackluster entries by Ghost Games, which was reorganized into a studio supporting Frostbite development. Last fall, Criterion, the creators of the Burnout series, launched a remastered edition of 2010’s well-regarded Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (whose original they also developed).
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